L'Être Situé, Effectiveness and Purposes of International Law

Essays in Honour of Professor Ryuichi Ida
Pp. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-26888-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 295 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

The traditional and mainstream conception of international law presupposes a certain ideal type of State. However, each State is situated in a particular context – an Etat situé – and the universal, impartial and non-discriminatory application of international law to each State often produces unjustifiable results in the real world. International law thus needs to cope with this existential question in order to ensure and maintain the effectiveness of the international legal order, without, however, being trapped by a nihilistic relativism. This approach requires a flexible understanding and reconstruction of the international law-making theory. The present collection of essays gathers contributions written in honour of Professor Ryuichi Ida by his colleagues and former students, inspired by the dédicataire, who places particular emphasis upon the context, effectiveness and purposes of international law. The dédicataire’s perspective finds wide ranging applications and the present collection deals with international economic law, international criminal law, international environmental law, international law-making, the law of State responsibility and the law of international organizations.

Contributors are: Tatsuya Abe, Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Shotaro Hamamoto, Machiko Kanetake, Tomohiko Kobayashi, Tomonori Mizushima, Hironobu Sakai, Akiho Shibata, Mari Takeuchi, Dai Tamada, Sakda Thanitcul, Zhi-an Wang, and Takuhei Yamada.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamamoto, Shotaro

Sakai, Hironobu

Shibata, Akiho

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Préface Vii
Acknowledgements X
List of Figures and Tables XII
List of Contributors XIII

part 1 - “L’ être situé”: Deconstruction of Universality

1 L’État situé dans le droit international de l’investissement 3
Shotaro Hamamoto
2 “ L’État situé” in the Context of the Accession of Developing Countries
to the wto 23
Tomonori Mizushima
3 The Functional Approach in le droit international de développement:

A Theoretical Appraisal 37
Zhian Wang
4 Emerging Economies and International Economic Law: A Case Study
on Thailand 63
Sakda Thanitcul
5 Universal Jurisdiction in a Context: From Dialectic to Dialogue 89
Mari Takeuchi

part 2 - Effectiveness: Formality of Law and Amorphous Reality

6 Running Many ftas is Like Balancing between Many Bicycles:

A Multidimensional Comparison of Institutional Provisions
in Japan’s ftas 115
Tomohiko Kobayashi
7 Provisional Measures in Investor-State Dispute Settlement:

Reappearance of Community of Investment Interests? 144
Dai Tamada
8 New Relationship between the United Nations and Regional
Organizations in Peace Security: A Case of the African Union 165
Hironobu Sakai

part 3 - Law-Making: International Law Catching Up with the Globalizing Community

9 International and Domestic Laws in Collaboration: An Effective
Means of Environmental Liability Regime-Making 193
Akiho Shibata
10 New Perspectives on Soft Law: Towards More Effective Regime
Governance 214
Tatsuya Abe
11 The Defence of Necessity as Customary International Law:

The Fisheries Jurisdiction Case (Spain v. Canada) Re-examined 238
Takuhei Yamada
12 Catching Up with Society – What, How, and Why: The Regulation
of the un Security Council’s Targeted Sanctions 255
Machiko Kanetake
Bibliography of Professor Ryuichi Ida
(with abbreviations used in this book) 285
Index 296

Über Autor(innen)

Shotaro Hamamoto, docteur en droit (Paris II), is Professor of the Law of International Organizations at Kyoto University. His recent publications appear, among others, in Ecrits en l’honneur du Professeur Pierre-Marie Dupuy (Brill, 2014) and Liber amicorum Peter Haggenmacher (Brill, 2014).

Hironobu Sakai, LL.M. (Kyoto), is Professor of International Law at Kyoto University. His publications, generally covering the law of international organizations and dispute settlement, appear in many periodicals such as the Asian Yearbook of International Law and the Japanese Yearbook of International Law.

Akiho Shibata, LL.M. (Kyoto and NYU), is Professor of International Law at Kobe University. He widely publishes on international law-making, the Antarctica and international environmental law. His recent publications include International Liability Regime for Biodiversity Damage: The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol (Routledge, 2014).