Foreword

xi

List of Contributors

xiv

pt. 1

Growing Role of International Courts and Jurisdictions: The Permanent Court of International Justice, the International Court of Justice, and Beyond

1.

Introduction / Rui de Mourn Ramos

3

2.

From Absence to Abundance: Tracing the Development and Impact of International Courts / Miguel de Serpa Soares

10

3.

Cases Where the International Court of Justice Lacked Jurisdiction: A Brief Analysis and Commentary / Ricardo Bastos

23

4.

Energy at Sea and the Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice / Eva Tzavala

38

pt. 2

International Inspection and Control Mechanisms

5.

Overview of the International Inspection and Control Mechanisms / Fernando Loureiro Bastos

59

6.

uefa Financial Control Body / Jose Cunha Rodrigues

74

pt. 3

European and Other Regional Courts of Human Rights

7.

Introduction / Ireneu Cabral Barreto

85

8.

European Court of Human Rights as the European Constitutional Court / Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque

89

9.

African Court on Human and People's Rights and its Position in the International and African Judicial Architectures / Jose Pina-Delgado

98

10.

Cultural Rights and a Right to Cultural Identity before the European Court of Human Rights: Present Approaches and Future Challenges / Laura-Maria Craciunean

136

11.

Influence of Inter-American Human Rights Law on the Jurisprudence of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court / Eleonora Mesquita Ceia

163

12.

Comparing and Discussing the Different Approaches to Remedies for Child Victims before the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights / Francesco Capone

190

13.

International Criminal Court and Human Rights: Achievements and Challenges / Ondfej Svacek

206

14.

Brazil and the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights: Conventionality Control on the Criminal Lawsuit no. 470 / Mario Lucio Quintao Soares

222

pt. 4

Dispute Resolution Mechanisms Concerning International Trade and Investment, in Particular within the WTO and ICSID

15.

Investor-State Dispute Settlement in the European Perspective: Recent Developments / Dario Mourn Vicente

247

16.

Dispute Resolution under the Energy Charter Treaty / Alejandro Carballo

264

17.

Understanding the Interaction between the WTO Regime and International Investment Regime: Reversing the Approach / Ozge Varis

276

18.

Legal Certainty during EU Accession: What Can a Foreign Investor in a Future Member State Legitimately Expect? / Sadie Blanchard

290

19.

Dispute Resolution Mechanisms Concerning International Trade and Investment, in Particular within WTO and ICSID. A Dual Coverage in the Services Sector / Carmen Saugar Koster

306

20.

WTO Dispute Settlement System and Renewable Energy Subsidies: The Case of Feed-in Tariffs / Elena Cima

319

21.

Evidence and the Principle of Good Faith in Investment Arbitration: Finding Meaning in Public International Law / Emily Sipiorski

347

22.

Challenges of Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism in TTIP / Magdalena Slok-Wodkowska

363

pt. 5

International Commercial Arbitration

23.

Confluence of Transnational Rules and National Directives as the Legal Framework of Transnational Arbitration / Luis de Lima Pinheiro

383

24.

Challenges of Taking Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration: The Problem of Legal Privileges / Tatjana Shterjova

432

pt. 6

Court of Justice of the European Union

25.

Introduction / Fausto de Quadros

449

26.

Court of Justice of the European Union / Maria Jose Rangel de Mesquita

451

27.

Infringement Procedure and the Court of Justice as an EU Law's Assurer: Member States' Infringements Concerning Failure to Transpose Directives and the Principle of an Effective Judicial Protection / Joana Covelo de Abreu

468

28.

United Nations Sanctions Regimes and a Judicialized European Union Perspective / Sofia Machado

476

pt. 7

Domestic Courts as International Jurisdictions?

29.

Introduction / Catherine Kessedjian

497

30.

Limits on Jurisdiction of Domestic Courts to Grant Civil Damages for International Law Violations / Peter D. Trooboff

500

31.

Corporate Group Structures and the Limits of Personal Jurisdiction, us/European Comparative Remarks / Rui Pereira Dias

516

32.

Towards Judicial Accountability in the Business & Human Rights Field? / Humberto Cantu-Rivera

528

pt. 8

Postscript

33.

Judicial and Constitutional Challenges of Legal Globalisation / Miguel Polares Maduro

547

Index

565