Research Catalog

Title

International claims commissions : righting wrongs after conflict / Lea Brilmayer, Howard Holtzmann Professor, Yale Law School, USA, Chiara Giorgetti, Associate Professor of Law, Richmond Law School, USA, Lorraine Charlton, USA.

Author

Brilmayer, Lea,

Publication

Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Charlton, Lorraine,
• Giorgetti, Chiara,

Description

xii, 257 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"International claims commissions have, over the last few decades, established themselves as important and permanent fixtures in international adjudication. This book provides a...review and analysis of the workings and mechanics of claims commissions to assess their success and predict their utility in the future. The book examines the legal framework of an international claims commission and the basic elements its processing procedure, as well as exploring the difficulties and challenges associated with operating costs, remedies and compliance with judgments. International claims commissions are created ad hoc to consider large numbers of complex legal claims resulting from an international upheaval, making them important international dispute resolution mechanisms. By focusing in large part on the examples set by the United Nations Claims Commissions, the Iran US Claims Tribunal, and the Eritrea Ethiopia Claims Commission, the authors assess the reasons to establish a claims commission by discussing their legal and operating structures, issues related to evidence and costs and the challenges and successes of creating them. The book concludes with an...analysis of lessons learnt to guide policy makers in the creation of future claims commissions."--

Series Statement

Elgar international law

Uniform Title

Elgar international law.

Subject

• Arbitration (International law)
• Claims
• Compensation (Law)
• Government liability (International law)
• International commissions of inquiry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: International mass claims commissions : "build-it-yourself" justice? -- What are international mass claims commissions? -- Why a claims commission? -- The legal and operating structure -- Who are the claimants and what are the claims? -- The financial structure of claims commissions -- Problmes of proof and evidence -- Remedies and compliance with claims commissions rulings -- Conclusions.

ISBN

• 9781785363818
• 1785363816

LCCN

2017931775

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library