Amicus Curiae in UK Law
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A Green Public Sphere in the WTO?: The Amicus Curiae Interventions in the Transatlantic Biotech Dispute
The WTO's decision-making model of executive multilateralism has been widely criticized for its lack of accountability to civil society. However, through the mechanism of the amicus curiae brief, ...
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An Empirical Look at the Amicus Curiae Practice of Human Rights NGOs before the European Court of Human Rights
This article explores the practice of third-party interventions by human rights nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Although permitted for over t...
- Amicus Curiae: The US Supreme Court's Influential Friend
- The Amicus Curiae and Intervener in the High Court of Australia: A Comparative Analysis
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Geographical knowledge at work: Human rights litigation and transnational territoriality
In April 2013, the US Supreme Court left a mark on the spatiality of law. In a decision on human rights violations in Nigeria, state territoriality served as a technique to rule out the application...... ... During a spatial analysis of a number of the 82 amicus curiae briefs to Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum , the article reveals ... ...
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Recommended Best Practices
Appellate jurisdiction General recommendations Judicial appointments Library and research facilities Amicus curiae Translation and interpretation services Adequate security Specific recommendations...... ... @@@Amicus curiae ... Arrangements should be made with bar associations and the ... ...
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Mainstreaming Human Rights in International Economic Organisations: Improving Judicial Access for NGOs to the World Trade Organization
In January 2006 the World Trade Organization (WTO) published the report entitled The Future of the WTO1 – known as the Sutherland report after the chairman of the commission that drafted the report...... ... Secondly, NGOs can participate in the legal process as amici curiae, friends ofthe court.The first type of NGO participation requires locus ... of judicial NGO participation is the situation where an NGO actsas amicus curiae.Anamicus curiae brief is filed by someone who is not a party to ... ...
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The collective dimension of federal anti-discrimination proceedings in Australia
The burden of pursuing federal anti-discrimination proceedings in Australia is essentially an individual one, with little regard to the collective dimension of such claims. This is reflected in the...... ... the capacity of the Commission to intervene in proceedings, or its amicus curiae power. In addressing these matters, this article focuses on the ... ...
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A CANADIAN DEVELOPMENT: NON‐PARTY INTERVENTION
... ... up judicial proceedings to a non-party, acting as amicus curiae. United States’ courts have not developed the ... ...
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Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Sub-Saharan Africa: Suggestions for Reform
... ... by the European Commission, a WTO-style advisory centre, mandatory amicus curiae participation and the allowance of counterclaims by states ... ...
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