Anyone who has read the Treaty instituting the European Community has noticed that member
states are allowed to prevent the application of European Community law by arguing that …

It is quite ironic that at this stage in my professional life, I am asked to work on force majeure
and hardship 1 since this is exactly the topic I chose many years ago for a paper as a …

The analysis of corporate responsibility has focused in the past years on the definition of
international rules to hold business enterprises accountable for their involvement in violations of …

In France during 1996, the average lead time from the moment proceedings are initiated
before a court of appeals to the date it renders its decision was more than fifteen months. 1 In …

The Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil
or Commercial Matters, adopted on 2 July 2019, gives some certainty to worldwide trade …

Mediation is an intensely discussed topic as a possibly promising venue for investor–State
dispute settlement (ISDS) and conflict prevention. Given that mediation can be used within ‘…

As one deeply involved in international litigation, as both a practitioner and an academic, I
welcome the courageous attempt to tackle that pillar of State ethnocentricism—procedural …

Thirty years ago, at least in French universities, international law classes dealt with only a
few procedural mechanisms: the International Court of Justice in classes on public …

From the Publisher: Cyberspace, the electronic super-highway or the internet, as it is most
commonly known, is a globally-networked, computer-sustained, computer-accessed and …

Le tiers impartial et indépendant a pris une telle importance dans la création normative
juridique qu’il a paru nécessaire de se pencher sur ce personnage qui cristallise un grand …