REVUE : Recueil des cours de l'Académie de droit international (vol. 382, 2017)

Daniel COOPER, Christopher KUNER, Bing Bing JIA

Volume 382 of the Recueil des cours, Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law is out.

DATA PROTECTION LAW AND INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Daniel Cooper, Christopher Kuner

Chapter I. Introduction

A. The globalized nature of commerce and communication
B. Influence of the Internet
C. Growth of data protection law
D. Growth of IDR
E. Conflicts between IDR and data protection

Chapter II. Relevant data protection issues

A. Development of data protection law
B. Important data protection concepts
C. Data localization

Chapter III. Relevant IDR issues

A. Overview
B. Litigation
C. Arbitration
D. A special example: WADA arbitration

Chapter IV. Conflicts between data protection and IDR

A. Introduction
B. Choice of law and jurisdiction in data protection law
C. Evidence collection (discovery) in litigation
D. Evidence collection in WADA sports arbitration cases
E. Sports cases pending before the European Court of Human Rights
F. Blocking statutes
G. Parties caught in the middle

Chapter V. Reconciling data protection and IDR

A. Introduction
B. Scope of the problem
C. Relevant issues
D. Mechanisms for managing conflicts
E. Developing a more global perspective
F. Taking data protection into account in IDR requirements
G. Taking IDR into account in data protection law
H. Conclusions

Bibliography

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INTERNATIONAL CASE LAW IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Bing Bing Jia

Chapter I. Introduction

A. Scope of “development”
B. A realistic view of judicial function
C. Terminology : judicial decisions, precedents, case law, and jurisprudence.
D. International decisions and national decisions in which international law is applicable law
E. Structure and premise of the course

Chapter II. Status of precedents in international law: Article 38 (1) (d) ICJ Statute

A. Material and formal sources of international law
B. The adoption of Article 38 (1) (d) of the PCIJ Statute
C. A subsidiary means to determine rules of international law

Chapter III. The doctrine and practice of precedent in municipal law

A. The doctrine of precedent
B. General applicability of the doctrine
C. The declaratory school of thought as known in domestic legal systems
D. Binding precedents in a hierarchically structured judicial system

Chapter IV. The emergent doctrine of precedent in international law

A. PCIJ and ICJ
B. ICTY/ICTR
C. WTO DSB
D. ICC
E. CJEU
F. ECtHR
G. IACHR
H. ICSID arbitrations
I. Conclusion

Chapter V. Notions of municipal law applicable in the doctrine of precedent of international law

A. Law-making by precedent: the role of analogy
B. Law-making by precedent: distinguishing and overruling
C. Judicial decisions may be either authoritative or persuasive precedents
D. The (convenient) distinction between ratio decidendi and obiter dictum

Chapter VI. The development of international law by case law in the strict sense

A. Judge-made law and judicial legislation
B. The law of maritime delimitation
C. The doctrine of command responsibility
D. The doctrine of inter-temporal law
E. Interpretation of treaties
F. Relevance of general principles of law under Article 38 (1) (c)
G. The impact of the policy-oriented approach
H. Judicial legislation : inherent power and the power to determine rules of procedure (and evidence)

Chapter VII. Precedents in the development of customary law

A. ICJ’s approach
B. Clarification of customary law
C. Declaration of the existence of customary law
D. Remark

Chapter VIII. Effect of development

A. Criteria for evaluation
B. Authoritative precedents
C. Development that fails to settle the law
D. Distinguishing
E. Can the potential for law-making be put beyond the competence of a court ?

Chapter IX. Conclusions

A. An emergent doctrine of precedent
B. Precedents as a source of mixed nature: rules of recognition
C. Development of international law by precedents

Bibliography