The precautionary principle in international law has attracted intense and sustained attention in the last ten to 15 years. It is thus becoming increasingly difficult for authors to make meaningful contributions in this area. Nevertheless, there remain a number of important research questions to be explored or further developed. In this review essay, the author considers four recent works on pr...

To write about Alfred Verdross's contribution to the discipline of international law poses a particular challenge for me. This is due to a variety of reasons. First, Alfred Verdross and I were close friends. We met for the first time in November 1967, when Verdross was 77 and I was 26 years old. A few months before, as an assistant in public law at the University of Innsbruck, I had submitted a...

Part I of this Article reviews the position of these administrative agencies and of the courts that have agreed with them. Part II discusses the contrary position of the majority of the circuit courts. Part III examines the international law bases of the relevant statutory language. It will be demonstrated that legislative history, United States case law, and international policy and practice, ...

The internet has transformed the manner of conducting commercial transactions and has created regulatory gaps. These regulatory gaps may impact the effective development of electronic commerce. Attempts are being made to regulate electronic contracts both at the national and international level. The present research analyses these attempts, in particular the Electronic Transaction Legislation ...

at present, new tendencies in international commercial arbitration try to delocalize and gives more independence to arbitration, from national laws. the ultimate degree of this independency is demonstrated in lex mercatoria theory. in recent years this theory has been gone beyond the frontiers of pure theory and entered into the national laws of some countries such as netherlands, france and in...

although there is in neither conventional nor customary international law any comprehensive or universal prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons, it was absolutely possible for the court to conclude, in the light of the documentary evidence and factual data placed before it, that recourse to these weapons would be illegal, in all circumstances. the article tries to examine critically the worl...