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Rüdiger Wolfrum · Ina Gätzschmann (eds.)

International Dispute Settlement:

Room for Innovations?

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Acknowledgements

The conference ‘International Dispute Settlement: Room for Innova￾tions?’ was held at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public

Law and International Law in Heidelberg on 3 November 2010.

Yvonne Klein, Marina Filinberg, Jannika Lang and Dilek Sanlialp de￾serve special appreciation for organizing and managing the conference

as well as Dietmar Bussmann, Roland Braun and Björn Binroth for

technical support and recording of the discussions and Klaus Zimmer￾mann as head of the administration of the Institute. The editors further

acknowledge the invaluable assistance of Christiane Philipp, Angelika

Schmidt, Marie-Luise Bäcker and Benjamin Nussberger in formatting

the manuscript.

Heidelberg, August 2012 Rüdiger Wolfrum

Ina Gätzschmann

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Table of Contents

Opening Address

Rüdiger Wolfrum ....................................................................................... 1

Panel I: What Makes the WTO Dispute Settlement

Procedure Particular: Lessons to be Learned for the

Settlement of International Disputes in General?

Presentation by David Unterhalter .......................................................... 5

Comment by Georges Abi-Saab............................................................. 13

Discussion................................................................................................. 23

Panel II: Advisory Opinions: Are they a Suitable

Alternative for the Settlement of International Disputes?

Presentation by Rüdiger Wolfrum.......................................................... 35

Comment by Pierre-Marie Dupuy......................................................... 69

Comment by Alena F. Douhan: Advisory Opinions of the

Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States:

A New Means of Settlement of International Disputes in the

Region?................................................................................................. 79

Discussion............................................................................................... 109

Panel III: Interaction between Counsel and International

Courts and Arbitral Tribunals: Ethical Standards for

Counsel

Presentation by Philippe Sands QC ..................................................... 127

VII

VIII Table of Contents

Annex: The Hague Principles on Ethical Standards for Counsel

Appearing before International Courts and Tribunals ....................... 137

Comment by Antony Aust ................................................................... 145

Discussion............................................................................................... 149

Panel IV: International Courts as Lawmakers

Presentation by Armin von Bogdandy and Ingo Venzke................... 161

Comment by Abdul G. Koroma: An Investigation of

International Courts, Public Authority and its Democratic

Justification ........................................................................................ 215

Discussion............................................................................................... 221

Paper submitted by Ingo Venzke: Antinomies and Change in

International Dispute Settlement: An Exercise in Comparative

Procedural Law.................................................................................. 235

Paper submitted by Jean d’Aspremont: The Non-Monopolistic

Role of International Courts and Tribunals in Designing the

Rules of Recognition of the International Legal System................ 271

Paper submitted by Marjan Ajevski: Preconditions for Stare

Decisis – What International Law Can Learn from Comparative

Constitutional Law ........................................................................... 293

Paper submitted by Hugh Thirlway: Unacknowledged

Legislators: Some Preliminary Reflections on the Limits of

Judicial Lawmaking........................................................................... 311

Paper submitted by Karl Doehring †: Lawmaking of Courts and

Tribunals Results in the Destruction of the Rule of Law............... 325

Table of Contents IX

Panel V: Privatization of the Settlement of International

Disputes

Presentation by Francisco Orrego Vicuña........................................... 331

Comment by Christoph Schreuer ........................................................ 339

Comment by August Reinisch.............................................................. 345

Discussion................................................................................................ 349

Paper submitted by Katharina Diel-Gligor: Systemic Deficiencies

of ICSID Investment Arbitration? An Inspection of the

Annulment Mechanism..................................................................... 359

Paper submitted by Shotaro Hamamoto: New Challenges for the

ICSID Annulment System: Another Private-Public Problem in

the International Investment Dispute Settlement ........................... 393

Paper submitted by Mathias Forteau: The Diversity of Applicable

Law before International Tribunals as a Source of Forum

Shopping and Fragmentation of International Law: An

Assessment......................................................................................... 417

Final Remarks and Conclusions................................................... 443

Rüdiger Wolfrum

Abbreviations

AB Appellate Body

AJIL American Journal of International Law

AmUIntlLRev American University International Law Re￾view

AustralianYbIL Australian Yearbook of International Law

BerkeleyJIL Berkeley Journal of International Law

BIT Bilateral Investment Treaty

BYIL British Yearbook of International Law

CardozoLRev Cardozo Law Review

ChicagoJIL Chicago Journal of International Law

Chinese JIL Chinese Journal of International Law

CIS Commonwealth of Independent States

CIS EC Economic Court of the Commonwealth of

Independent States

CJEU Court of the European Union

CornellILJ Cornell International Law Journal

CTS Command Treaty Series

DSB Dispute Settlement Body

DSU Dispute Settlement Understanding

DukeJComp&IL Duke Journal of Comparative and Interna￾tional Law

ECOSOC UN Economic and Social Council

ECR European Court Reports

ECtHR European Court of Human Rights

EJIL European Journal of International Law

ELJ European Law Journal

ETS European Treaty Series

EurAsEC Eurasian Economic Community

FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the

United Nations

XI

XII Abbreviations

FinnishYbIL Finnish Yearbook of International Law

GAOR General Assembly Official Records

GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GLJ German Law Journal

HarvardILJ Harvard International Law Journal

HRLJ Human Rights Law Journal

IACtHR Inter-American Court of Human Rights

ICJ International Court of Justice

ICC International Criminal Court

ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political

Rights

ICLQ International and Comparative Law Quar￾terly

ICSID International Centre for Settlement of In￾vestment Disputes

ICSID Rev/FILJ ICSID Review/Foreign Investment Law

Journal

ICTY International Criminal Tribunal for the for￾mer Yugoslavia

ILA International Law Association

ILC Yb Yearbook of the International Law Commis￾sion

ILM International Legal Materials

ILOAT Administrative Tribunal of the International

Labour Organization

IMO International Maritime Organization

Iran-US CTR Iran-US Claims Tribunal Reports

ITLOS International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

JIntlArb Journal of International Arbitration

JIEL Journal of International Economic Law

JWT Journal of World Trade

LJIL Leiden Journal of International Law

LPICT The Law and Practice of International

Courts and Tribunals

Abbreviations XIII

MaxPlanck UNYB Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations

Law

MichiganJIL Michigan Journal of International Law

MIT Multilateral Investment Treaty

NetherlandsYbIL Netherlands Yearbook of International Law

NordicJIL Nordic Journal of International Law

North Carolina LRev North Carolina Law Review

NYU JILP New York University Journal of Interna￾tional Law and Politics

OAS Organization of American States

OAU Organization of African Unity

OJ C Official Journal of the European Union (In￾formation and Notices)

PCA Permanent Court of Arbitration

PCIJ Permanent Court of International Justice

RdC Recueil des Cours

RGDIP Revue Générale de Droit International Pu￾blic

RSDIE Revue Suisse de Droit International et de

Droit Européen

SCOR Security Council Official Records

SCSL Special Court for Sierra Leone

StanfordJIL Stanford Journal of International Law

TexasILJ Texas International Law Journal

TRIPS Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Prop￾erty Rights

UNCITRAL UN Commission on International Trade

Law

UNCLOS UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

UNCTAD UN Conference on Trade and Development

UNESCO UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Or￾ganization

UNGA UN General Assembly

UNMIK United Nations Interim Administration Mis￾sion in Kosovo

XIV Abbreviations

UNSC UN Security Council

UNTS United Nations Treaty Series

VCLT Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

VJIL Virginia Journal of International Law

WHO World Health Organization

WLR The Weekly Law Reports

WTO World Trade Organization

YaleLJ Yale Law Journal

ZaöRV Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches

Recht und Völkerrecht