International Courts versus Non-Compliance Mechanisms

Comparative Advantages in Strengthening Treaty Implementation

Christina Voigt, Caroline Foster

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Law
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009373890
• Subtopic: International Law
• Index: Law

This book explores the best mechanisms for helping bring about compliance with international treaties. In recent years, many international treaties have included non-compliance mechanisms (NCMs) to facilitate implementation and promote parties' compliance with their obligations. These NCMs exist alongside the formal dispute resolution processes of international courts and tribunals. The authors bring together a wide legal and geographical spectrum of views from different parts of the world representing novel insights into NCMs' contribution to treaty implementation and compliance. The research has cast important light on how procedural innovations may help render NCMs more effective, as well as on the circumstances in which they may be needed, including particularly where nations share common interests, populations are interdependent, and implementation makes significant administrative, regulatory and political demands. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Imprints page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I General and Conceptual Issues
• Part II Specific Procedures
• Part III Trade, Finance and Investment
• Part IV Environment
• Part V Human Rights
• Part VI Criminal Law and Disarmament Law
• Part VII Cultural Heritage Law and Law of the Sea
• Index