Courts Crossing Borders: Blurring the Lines of SovereigntyMary L. Volcansek, John F. Stack Carolina Academic Press, 2005 - 252 pages Legal issues that have traditionally been treated as domestic are increasingly governed by transnational law and numerous obscure tribunals. This book acquaints students of law and politics with the largely unrecognized authority of transnational legal systems and the ways boundaries of national sovereignty are being eroded in the 21st century. The editors have skillfully organized their collection around issues dealing with both human rights and issues of trade and used a comparative approach to analyze the many court decisions, treaties, and legal agreements that affect national sovereignty. Among subject areas included are: Courts and Regional Trade Agreements, Dispute Resolution under NAFTA, and Universal Criminal Jurisdiction. "This is an edited book that brings together in one highly readable place a crisp and engaging look at transnational courts in today's global world....In sum, Courts Crossing Borders is a quality effort that deserves careful reading. Enhancing a deeper understanding of this timely topic, it is a book that can be profitably studied by students, scholars, and the curious public." -- Law & Politics Book Review, 2005 |
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... example , we should pay attention to the cases where national courts have gone further than the ECJ in extending the ... Examples of the first have been referred to by national judges in the context of a project on the application of EU ...
... example of this ap- proach . The Court was faced with a French statute that made distinctions be- tween the inheritance rights of legitimate and illegitimate children . The Court's opinion cited statistics on the increasing number of ...
... example , those within the former Yugoslavia ) . While human rights NGOs have their own statements on universal jurisdiction , 37 perhaps the most no- table recent explication of universal jurisdiction is that contained in the Princeton ...
Contents
Judicialization and Sovereignty Mary L Volcansek | 11 |
Transnational Courts | 17 |
Courts and Regional Trade Agreements Mary L Volcansek | 23 |
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