The Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties

a commentary

Eds. Olivier Corten, Pierre Klein. The 1969 and 1986 Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties are essential components of the contemporary international legal order. They aim at regulating what has become the main source of public international law and a crucial tool in inter-state ...

Formularios procesales civiles internacionales

El objetivo de unos formularios legales bien redactados consiste en lograr que el mensaje que se transmite a través de los mismos llegue del modo más claro y directo tanto al tribunal como a la parte contraria. Para ello, el rasgo fundamental que deben presentar ...

Boilerplate clauses, international commercial contracts and the applicacle Law

Ed. Giuditta Cordero-Moss. With the aim of creating an autonomous regime for the interpretation and application of the contract, boilerplate clauses are often inserted into international commercial contracts without negotiations or regard for their legal effects. The assumption that a sufficiently detailed and clear language ...

Schlechtriem & Schwenzer

Comentario sobre la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre los contratos de compraventa internacional de mercaderías

Este es el Comentario líder citado frecuentemente por cortes y tribunales alrededor del mundo. Ofrece, en una sola obra, un análisis comparativo profundo de sentencias y laudos provenientes de todo el mundo. Esta versión al español incluye además secciones comparativas sobre las soluciones adoptadas por ...

The prospects of international trade regulation

from fragmentation to coherence

Eds. Thomas Cottier, Panagiotis Delimatsis. For a long time, the GATT led a life of its own as a self-contained regime. The evolution from tariff to non-tariff barriers brought about increasing overlaps with other regulatory areas. WTO rules increasingly interface with other areas of law ...

La compraventa C.I.F.

La compraventa c.i.f. (cost, insurance, freight) es una de las más antiguas modalidades de compraventa marítima, conformada por décadas de prácticas y de experiencias profesionales en escenarios internacionales. Integra armónicamente en su propia definición otros contratos, sumamente complejos y especializados: el transporte y ...

International project finance

Law and practice

Ed. John Dewar. Project finance is used worldwide to structure and finance natural resource and infrastructure projects and practitioners must have a thorough grasp of the underlying principles of this specialist area. With a logical and helpful structure, this book addresses this need, providing a ...

Understanding global trade

Global trade is of vital interest to citizens as well as policymakers, yet it is widely misunderstood. This compact exposition of the market forces underlying international commerce addresses both of these concerned groups, as well as the needs of students and scholars. Although it contains ...

Lecciones de Derecho internacional público

Domestic Law goes global

legal traditions and international courts

International courts have proliferated in the international system, with over one hundred judicial or quasi-judicial bodies in existence today. This book develops a rational legal design theory of international adjudication in order to explain the variation in state support for international courts. Initial negotiators of ...

The individual in the international legal system

continuity and change in International Law

Kate Parlett's study of the individual in the international legal system examines the way in which individuals have come to have a certain status in international law, from the first treaties conferring rights and capacities on individuals through to the present day. The analysis ...

Trading fish, saving fish

the interaction between regimes in International Law

Numerous international legal regimes now seek to address the global depletion of fish stocks, and increasingly their activities overlap. The relevant laws were developed at different times by different groups of states. They are motivated by divergent economic approaches, influenced by disparate non-state actors, and ...

Ríos que nos separan, aguas que nos unen

análisis jurídico de los Convenios Hispano-Lusos sobre aguas internacionales

Esta monografía aborda un tema actual y de eminente interés práctico: la gestión sostenible de las Cuencas Hidrográficas Internacionales (CHI). Estas cuencas ocupan el territorio de dos o más Estados y sus aguas constituyen un recurso cada vez más escaso cuyo reparto está en la ...

National Courts an the international rule of Law

This book explores how domestic courts contribute to the maintenance of the rule of international law by providing judicial control over the exercises of public powers that may conflict with international law. The main focus of the book will be on judicial control of exercise ...

Hacia la regulación internacional de las empresas militares y de seguridad privadas

En los últimos años se ha abierto la puerta con gran irresponsabilidad, mayor intensidad y extensión, a la delegación y/o contratación del uso legítimo de la fuerza a actores privados. Este dato no debería pasarse por alto. Las empresas militares y de seguridad privadas ...

Transnational administrative rule-making

performance, legal effects and legitimacy

Eds. Olaf Dilling, Martin Herberg, Gerd Winter. In an age of globalisation, many regulatory problems lie beyond the reach of the nation state. Solutions have to be found which extend beyond territorial borders. Normally we would expect international law to be the appropriate forum for ...

La compraventa C.I.F.

La compraventa c.i.f. (cost, insurance, freight) es una de las más antiguas modalidades de compraventa marítima, conformada por décadas de prácticas y de experiencias profesionales en escenarios internacionales. Integra armónicamente en su propia definición otros contratos, sumamente complejos y especializados: el transporte y ...

Unidad y pluralismo en el Derecho internacional público y en la comunidad internacional

Coloquio en Homenaje a Oriol Casanovas, Barcelona, 21-22 de mayo de 2009

Eds. Ángel J. Rodrigo, Caterina García. Esta obra contiene un diálogo científico entre la obra del profesor Oriol Casanovas, Unidad y pluralismo en Derecho internacional público, y un conjunto de trabajos de destacados iusinternacionalistas españoles y extranjeros con el doble objetivo de rendirle un merecido ...

Organization of American States (OAS)

The Organization of American States (OAS) is the world's oldest regional multifunctional organization and has been in continuous existence since 1948. All 35 sovereign states of the Americas are members of the OAS. It is a multifunctional institution, dealing with security, technical cooperation, and ...

The participation of States in international organisations

the role of Human Rights and democracy

The admission of a state to membership is an important decision for an international organisation. In making this determination, organisations are increasingly promoting the observance of human rights and democratic governance as relevant principles. They have also applied the same criteria in resolving the question ...