Farshad Geravand
Abstract
The right to water in investment arbitration has been one of the most contentious issues before investment arbitration tribunals in recent decades. The privatization of public services, including water and sanitation, and assigning them to foreign investors has caused the right to water as a vital benefit ...
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The right to water in investment arbitration has been one of the most contentious issues before investment arbitration tribunals in recent decades. The privatization of public services, including water and sanitation, and assigning them to foreign investors has caused the right to water as a vital benefit being repeatedly raised in investment arbitrations. However, due to tribunals’ narrow interpretation of jurisdiction and applicable law, this fundamental human right has been considered irrelevant and ignored, and this has fueled the legitimacy crises in investment arbitration. This research seeks to indicate the potentiality of more protection of the right to water through balancing the states international obligations in the two areas of investment law and human rights law. Proposed methods for integrating human rights with investment law include the correct interpretation of jurisdictional clauses and the applicable law based on the treaties interpretation principles, systematic integration and the inclusion of new clauses in investment agreements.
Mohammad Razavirad; Janet Blake
Abstract
The 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea has devoted one of its provisions to protect the underwater cultural heritage in the contiguous zone. Article 303(2), contains a legal presumption in favor of the coastal state on removing the cultural heritage from the bed of contiguous zone. The relation of ...
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The 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea has devoted one of its provisions to protect the underwater cultural heritage in the contiguous zone. Article 303(2), contains a legal presumption in favor of the coastal state on removing the cultural heritage from the bed of contiguous zone. The relation of this article with article 33 has led to ambiguities and various interpretations on the legal nature of coastal state’s jurisdiction over this maritime zone. Some authors have spoken about the limited jurisdiction of the coastal state and some others on its broader jurisdiction over "objects of archaeological and historical nature" on the bed of Contiguous Zone. In the meantime, some put forward the theory of "24-mile archaeological zone" and pose some arguments to defend it. Article 8 of the 2001 UNESCO’s Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage, albeit with a lot of complexity and ambiguity, does not seem to support broad jurisdiction or the theory of a "24-mile archaeological zone".
afife gholami; tavakol habibzadeh
Abstract
Foreign investment are made by means of concluding a contract between the foreign investor and a public institute or entity of the host state.On the other side, the host state is often a part of a bilateral or multilateral investment treaty with the national state of the investor.Each of these documents ...
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Foreign investment are made by means of concluding a contract between the foreign investor and a public institute or entity of the host state.On the other side, the host state is often a part of a bilateral or multilateral investment treaty with the national state of the investor.Each of these documents forecast their special mechanism for settlement of investor-state disputes.In numerous cases,these contracts are sources of investment disputes and a lot of claims arise out of breaches of international legal obligations arising from or relating to underlying contracts, which is a new question in the international arbitration domain.Since the two SGS v.Pakistan and SGS v.Philippines decisions by arbitral tribunals, the question of how treaty-based tribunals should deal with claims arising out of the contractual relationships,was recently asked and considered. Both of the aforementioned tribunals dealt with assessing jurisdiction over claims of breach of contract.Although, these arbitrations finally resulted in two different awards, they has provided useful guidance toward determination of the scope of jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunals over disputes arising out of the investment contracts.The subsequent tribunals taking into account arbitral practices, tried to present an analytical approaches concerning assessment of jurisdiction in settlement of disputes arisingfrom contractual relationships
Vali Rostami; Samira Asghari
Abstract
Regulations governing the employment of human resources in Iran are studied in two separate legal systems. Provisions relating to public sector employment are studied in the administrative law and provisions relating to private sector employment are studied in the labor law. According to the existing ...
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Regulations governing the employment of human resources in Iran are studied in two separate legal systems. Provisions relating to public sector employment are studied in the administrative law and provisions relating to private sector employment are studied in the labor law. According to the existing laws, certain authorities are determined in order to deal with complaints concerning the employment of each of these two groups. However, despite the determination of such authorities, it seems that in some cases uncertainty may arise as to discern the competent authority. Its major problem relates to the ambiguity in the scope of labor law on the one hand, and other employment laws and regulations on the other hand. Thus according to the definition of the worker and employee, detecting their difference aspects, their diagnosis criteria, and determination of the competent authority to deal with the recruitment complaints would be essential, and should be conducted according to the rules and legal texts.
hamid alhoii nazari
Volume 16, Issue 43 , February 2015, , Pages 135-162
Abstract
It has widely been accepted that no subject is irrevocably fixed within thereserved domain. The ICJ has been frequently faced with claim of reserveddomain, whether in determining jurisdiction or merit. The ICJ standard in suchclaims is based on its precedent; it states that the clause “merely within ...
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It has widely been accepted that no subject is irrevocably fixed within thereserved domain. The ICJ has been frequently faced with claim of reserveddomain, whether in determining jurisdiction or merit. The ICJ standard in suchclaims is based on its precedent; it states that the clause “merely within thedomestic jurisdiction domain” in in the case (issued commands in Tunes andMorocco), includes the cases which has not been regulated in the light ofinternational law. According to the relativity of the concept of the reserveddomain, a State cannot cite to its domestic provisions permanently in reply toalleged breach of its obligations under international law.
S.Ghasem Zamani; Soheila Kusha
Volume 14, Issue 38 , March 2013, , Pages 163-192
Abstract
One of the aspects of international law for peaceful settlement of legal
disputes is the consent of parties to the jurisdiction of international court
of justice (ICJ). In this regard, the way this consent will be presented, is
not important. By taking into account of this rule and jurisprudence of ...
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One of the aspects of international law for peaceful settlement of legal
disputes is the consent of parties to the jurisdiction of international court
of justice (ICJ). In this regard, the way this consent will be presented, is
not important. By taking into account of this rule and jurisprudence of ICJ
and short comings of statute of the court, there must be some other
jurisdictions which are beyond those ones anticipated in the statute of the
international court of justice (ICJ). For these reasons,there is another kind
of jurisdiction which is called "Forum Prorogatum",in rules of the court.
According to this kind of jurisdiction, the respondent can informimpliedly
or expressly the court about its consent.Even after,filing an application by
defendant in the registry of the court. It can be done impliedly by taking
an action or participation in hearing without any objections or explicitly
by sending a letter in this regard to the court. This kind of jurisdiction at
first applied by [PCIJ] in the case of Mavrommatis Palestine concessions
(Greece/ United Kingdom) and gradually finds its place in jurisprudence
of the court. In a way that nowadays becomes a usual way of filling an
application in registry of the court for exercising its jurisdiction. we will
consider the latest judgment of court in case concerning "Certain
Questions of Mutual Assistance in Criminal matters" (Djibouti /France) 4
June 2008 in this essay and discuss its challenges.
Mohammad Reza Hoseini
Volume 14, Issue 38 , March 2013, , Pages 193-219
Abstract
One of the aspects of international law for peaceful settlement of legal
disputes is the consent of parties to the jurisdiction of international court
of justice (ICJ). In this regard, the way this consent will be presented, is
not important. By taking into account of this rule and jurisprudence of ...
Read More
One of the aspects of international law for peaceful settlement of legal
disputes is the consent of parties to the jurisdiction of international court
of justice (ICJ). In this regard, the way this consent will be presented, is
not important. By taking into account of this rule and jurisprudence of ICJ
and short comings of statute of the court, there must be some other
jurisdictions which are beyond those ones anticipated in the statute of the
international court of justice (ICJ). For these reasons,there is another kind
of jurisdiction which is called "Forum Prorogatum",in rules of the court.
According to this kind of jurisdiction, the respondent can informimpliedly
or expressly the court about its consent.Even after,filing an application by
defendant in the registry of the court. It can be done impliedly by taking
an action or participation in hearing without any objections or explicitly
by sending a letter in this regard to the court. This kind of jurisdiction at
first applied by [PCIJ] in the case of Mavrommatis Palestine concessions
(Greece/ United Kingdom) and gradually finds its place in jurisprudence
of the court. In a way that nowadays becomes a usual way of filling an
application in registry of the court for exercising its jurisdiction. we will
consider the latest judgment of court in case concerning "Certain
Questions of Mutual Assistance in Criminal matters" (Djibouti /France) 4
June 2008 in this essay and discuss its challenges.
