International Law

National Courts and the International Rule of Law

By André Nollkaemper
Oxford University Press November 2012

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780199668151
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
November 2012
Format
Paperback , 384 pages
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

  • Draws on a hugely innovative, and previously untapped, pool of new empirical data on the application of international law in domestic courts contained in Oxford's online International Law in Domestic Courts service
  • Examines one of the most pressing concerns of international legal theory today
  • Provides an analysis of key cases involving judicial control of the exercise of public powers by states; including the HamdanAdalah, and Narmada cases
  • The paperback features a new preface

This book explores the way domestic courts contribute to the maintenance of theinternational of 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 of public powers by states. Key cases that will be reviewed in this book, and that will provide empirical material for the main propositions, include Hamdan, in which the US Supreme Court reviewed detention by the United States of suspected terrorists against the 1949 Geneva Conventions;Adalah, in which the Supreme Court of Israel held that the use of local residents by Israeli soldiers in arresting a wanted terrorist is unlawful under international law, and the Narmada case, in which the Indian Supreme Court reviewed the legality of displacement of people in connection with the building of a dam in the river Narmada under the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention 1957 (nr 107).

This book explores what it is that international law requires, expects, or aspires that domestic courts do. Against this backdrop it maps patterns of domestic practice in the actual or possible application of international law and determines what such patterns mean for the protection of the international rule of law.

Readership: Academics, scholars, and advanced students of public international law, legal theory, and comparative legal systems

Table of Contents

1: Introduction
I Conditions
2: Jurisdiction
3: Independence
4: Applicable Law
5: Standing
II The Application of International Law
6: Direct Effect
7: Consistent Interpretation
8: Reparation
III External Effects
9: Fragmentation
10: Authority
11: Supremacy Restrained
IV Conclusion
12: Concluding Remarks: Bringing Together the International and the National Rule of Law

About the Author

André Nollkaemper, Professor of Public International Law, University of Amsterdam

André Nollkaemper is Professor of Public International Law, University of Amsterdam.

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