Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hatte sich anlässlich des Urteils B-1306/2021 vom 1. Februar 2022 – YT//EYT (fig.) mit Akronymen zu befassen und sich zu ihrer Bedeutung im
Markenrecht zu äussern. Das Urteil enthält weiter Anhaltspunkte, welche die bisherige Praxis, wonach die integrale Übernahme eines älteren Zeichens in die neuere [...]
ABSTRACTThis article, which sits in the context of a wider project devoted to understanding how state behaviour may be changed, seeks to focus on the act of sanctioning, broadly
construed, as functional to that goal. Freeing ourselves from the constraints of too narrow a definition of the term ‘sanction’, we consider a wider gamut of [...]
AbstractOn 16 March 2022, among others measures, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered the Russian Federation to suspend immediately its military operations in Ukraine.
The Order is remarkable for several reasons and, so it is submitted, potentially will entail considerable consequences in international adjudication, before and beyond [...]
AbstractProponents of the international investment law system have treated the concept of depoliticization as a key justification of the investor–state arbitration mechanism.
However, this rationale has been increasingly questioned. The system is itself a reflection of the asymmetrical power relations that exist among various actors. [...]
AbstractThe legal principle of ‘unity’ has been frequently invoked by States to claim sovereignty of islands and other insular features. It has been used by the adjudicators
in diverse ways and with differing results. With a view to clarifying the legal paradigm of the principle of ‘unity’, this article undertakes an analysis of the [...]
AbstractDecision-making in intelligence matters is often assumed to be an extra-legal process. This article however shows that the determining factor in compliance is a legal
one: the likelihood of the state being held effectively accountable for a breach of international law. [...]
AbstractFollowing in the wake of its social science siblings, international law scholarship is experiencing a ‘behavioural turn’. One particularly fruitful area in which
to explore the utility of behavioural insights is compliance. The contributions to the present symposium represent some of the first efforts to explore how psychological [...]
ABSTRACTNowhere is the integration of behavioural insights into international legal theory more important than in relation to compliance. Such insights offer the potential
to give us a more accurate understanding of how states behave, permitting both the development of more effective, empirically grounded normative propositions for [...]
This essay seeks to analyze certain elements in the 2020 Court of Arbitration for Sport award in Keramuddin Karim v. Fédération International de Football Associations (CAS
2019/A/6388, award dated July 14, 2020) where the former President of the Afghan Football Federation was sanctioned for offences including sexual abuse of Afghan [...]
