Full Description
Enabling the victims of international crimes to obtain reparation is crucial to fighting impunity. In Universal Civil Jurisdiction - Which Way Forward? experts of public and private international law discuss one of the key challenges that victims face, namely access to justice. Civil courts in the country where the crime was committed may be biased, or otherwise unwilling or unable to hear the case. Are the courts of other countries permitted, or required, to rule on the victim's claim? Trends at the international and the domestic level after the Naït-Liman judgment of the European Court of Human Rights offer a nuanced answer, suggesting that civil jurisdiction is not only concerned with sovereignty, but is also a tool for the governance of global problems.
Contents
Foreword
Giorgio Gaja
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Serena Forlati and Pietro Franzina
1 The Case of Näit-Liman before the European Court of Human Rights: A
Forum Non Conveniens for Asserting the Right of Access to a Court in
Relation to Civil Claims for Torture Committed Abroad?
Andrea Saccucci
2 The Role of the European Court of Human Rights in the Development
of Rules on Universal Civil Jurisdiction: Naït-Liman v Switzerland in the
Transition between the Chamber and the Grand Chamber
Serena Forlati
3 Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights: Lessons
from the Naït-Liman Case
Malgosia Fitzmaurice
4 Public International Law Constraints on the Exercise of Adjudicatory
Jurisdiction in Civil Matters
Lucas Roorda and Cedric Ryngaert
5 Universal Civil Jurisdiction and Reparation for International Crimes
Beatrice I. Bonafè
6 Limitations to the Exercise of Civil Jurisdiction in Areas Other Than
Reparation for International Crimes
Fabrizio Marongiu Buonaiuti
7 Residual Jurisdiction under the Brussels I bis Regulation: An Unexpected
Avenue to Address Extraterritorial Corporate Human Rights Violations
Mariangela La Manna
8 The Law Applicable to the Civil Consequences of Human Rights Violations Committed Abroad
Patrick Kinsch
9 The Changing Face of Adjudicatory Jurisdiction
Pietro Franzina
Bibliography
Index
