Civil Society, International Courts and Compliance Bodies

ISBN-13: 9789067041867 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 338 str.

Tullio Treves; Marco Frigessi Di Rattalma; Attila Tanzi

Opis

With contributions by academic scholars, judges and registrars of international tribunals, and experts from Non-Governmental Organizations, this book explores the role of civil society with regards to international courts and tribunals, as well as compliance mechanisms set up especially in the environmental field. The areas of human rights, international criminal law and international environmental law are the main focus of the study.

Spis treści

NGOs and Human Rights Courts and Compliance Bodies.- International Courts and Compliance Bodies: The Experience of Amnesty International.- The Experience of the AIRE Centre in Litigating before the European Court of Human Rights.- NGOs and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.- NGOs before the European Court of Human Rights: Beyond Amicus Curiae Participation?.- The Role of NGOs before the United Nations Human Rights Committee.- Some Concluding Remarks on NGOs and the European Court of Human Rights.- NGOs and International Criminal Courts and Tribunals.- The Experience of No Peace Without Justice.- NGOs and the Activities of the Ad Hoc Criminal Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.- NGOs and the Activities of the International Criminal Court.- NGOs and the East Timor Special Panels for Serious Crimes.- Some Concluding Remarks on the Role of NGOs in the ICC.- NGOs and International Environmental Disputes and Compliance Mechanisms.- The Experience of Greenpeace International.- NGOs and the Aarhus Convention.- The World Bank Inspection Panel: About Public Participation and Dispute Settlement.- NGOs in Non-Compliance Mechanisms under Multilateral Environmental Agreements: From Tolerance to Recognition?.- NGOs and Inter-State and European Disputes.- Non-Governmental Organizations and the International Court of Justice.- NGOs and Law of the Sea Disputes.- CIEL’s Experience in WTO Dispute Settlement: Challenges and Complexities from a Practical Point of View.- NGOs and the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism.- The Accessibility of European Integration Courts from an NGO Perspective.- Concluding Remarks.- The Amicus Curiae in International Courts: Towards Common Procedural Approaches?.

Blurb

 The well-publicized contributions of civil society in setting items on the international agenda, in developing new international treaties, in exercising pressure on States in favour of or against the ratification of such treaties and in assisting the functioning of new institutions has attracted the attention of scholars who discuss the presence and the role of ‘new actors’ on the international stage. The role of civil society as regards international courts and tribunals, as well as compliance mechanisms set up especially in the environmental field, may be less well-known but is certainly no less important. This book explores this crucial area.

The attempt is timely and particularly relevant because of the continuous increase in the number of international courts, tribunals and compliance mechanisms. The areas of human rights, international criminal law and international environmental law are the main focus of the study, in the light of the well-established role of NGOs in Human Rights Courts and UN bodies as well as in the light of their remarkable success in setting up the International Criminal Court and the promising avenues which are now open in the compliance bodies of environmental law conventions. Broader questions and bodies such as the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea as well as European courts and tribunals are also included. The experience of a multinational group of academic scholars, judges and registrars of international tribunals, and experts from Non-Governmental Organizations, who have contributed to the book, provide it with the necessary variety of approaches and points of view.

This book is based on the results of a research project by the Universities of Milan, Brescia and Verona, supported by the Italian Ministry for University and Research, and by PICT, the London-New York Project on International Courts and Tribunals.

Tullio Treves is a Judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and a Professor of International Law at the State University of Milano. Marco Frigessi di Rattalma teaches International Law at the University of Brescia. Attila Tanzi teaches International Law at the University of Verona. Alessandro Fodella teaches International Human Rights Protection at the University of Trento. Cesare Pitea and Chiara Ragni are research assistants at the University of Milan.