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Part VII Implementation and Enforcement, Ch.45 International Dispute Settlement

Cesare P R Romano

From: The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (1st Edition)

Edited By: Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée, Ellen Hey

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Content type:
Book content
Product:
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law [OSAIL]
Series:
Oxford Handbooks in Law
Published in print:
07 August 2008
ISBN:
9780199552153

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 25 March 2023

Subject(s):
Environmental disputes — UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea)
Typically, in all international agreements, as well as in all manuals of international law, the section on dispute settlement comes last. This Handbook is no exception. The reason for this seemingly universal rule is quite obvious. Dispute settlement is to international law what pathology is to medicine. It is about the worst-case scenario, when the consensus that made it possible for rules to be created does not exist anymore, and parties argue as to what these rules actually mean and if, by whom, to what extent, and with which consequences, they have been...
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