030341 SE Advanced research seminar in international dispute settlement (2009S)

This advanced research seminar examines the settlement of international disputes involving States, intergovernmental organizations, and private parties. It focuses on institutional, jurisdictional, and procedural aspects of international dispute settlement, including questions of jurisdiction and admissibility of international claims, preliminary objections, third party intervention, and enforcement of judgments and awards. The dispute settlementbodies that will be discussed include the International Court of Justice, the WTO Dispute Settlement Body, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, mixed arbitral tribunals between a State and a private party, such as investor-State arbitration, inter-State arbitral tribunals, ad hoc arbitral tribunals, and human rights bodies.