By Rüdiger Wolfrum (auth.), Rüdiger Wolfrum, Ina Gätzschmann (eds.)

This ebook succeeds formerly released seminars of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public legislations and foreign legislations (Heidelberg, Germany) facing evolving rules and new advancements in overseas legislation. end result of the limits of conventional dispute payment in overseas legislation and the continuing scholarly debate on these limits, it makes a speciality of attainable recommendations and sensible techniques to enhance foreign dispute cost mechanisms. In doing so, it covers a wide selection of subject matters resembling methods of the WTO, advisory evaluations of foreign courts and tribunals, the privatization of overseas dispute payment, the interplay among counsels and foreign courts and tribunals, and the law-making functionality of foreign courts. the purpose of this booklet is to give a contribution to the cross-fertilization among those mechanisms and to provide artistic impulses for the advertising of overseas dispute settlement.

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36 b. 37 The Court has stated this discretion33 Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (note 19) para. 47. 34 Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo (note 14). 35 The Court stated in the Interpretation of Peace Treaties with Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania (Advisory Opinion) (First Phase) [1950] ICJ Rep. 65 (71): ‘The consent of States, parties to a dispute, is the basis of the Court’s jurisdiction in contentious cases.

As to the question of who makes up the panel and whether that could be changed, panels are constituted by a mixture of competences. There are diplomats, there are lawyers, there are economists. They have quite a varied set of backgrounds and they are quite often, and increasingly, 26 Discussion appointed by the Director General on the basis partly who is available and partly what he thinks will make up the right composition for the case. I am not certain that the primacy of lawyers is always a prerequisite for effective decision-making.

36 Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (note 19) para. 47. 37 Ibid. para. 44. 38 One may wonder whether this is a convincing explanation of the discretionary power the Court enjoys since other courts and tribunals are obliged to render an advisory opinion. Does that mean their judicial function is not worth protecting? Apart from that such interpretation of the discretionary power seems to indicate that the organs or organizations which have the right to request an advisory opinion from the ICJ are not considered being sufficiently aware of the judicial function of the Court.

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