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‘CAN SHE EXCUSE MY WRONGS?’ THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE AND INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS
Bernhard Hofstötter
Sažetak
The multiplication of international courts and tribunals in recent decades has
paved the way for a judicialisation of international law and has therefore profoundly
changed the landscape of international law. Whereas the existence of a panoply of
dispute resolution avenues is a welcome development which may be conceptualised as
part of an ongoing constitutionalisation of international law, it has concomitantly
activated the problem of conflict between different judicial actors. Although doubtlessly
designed as an international court sui generis, the ECJ forms part of this international
dispute settlement architecture and has to compete with other international actors in the
case of jurisdictional overlaps. The recent MOX plant saga is an illustration of these
competing forces at play and underscores the self-perception of the ECJ as a
constitutional court reluctant to pay deference to the pronouncements of other
international judicial actors. Although fitting squarely with the Court’s mandate issued
by the framers of the EC Treaty in Article 292, this approach risks an undesirable
fragmentation of international law as a whole, which could be avoided by reference to a
number of conflict avoidance devices available to international courts and tribunals.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
28566
URI
Datum izdavanja:
2.11.2007.
Posjeta: 1.932 *