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International Courts and Tribunals as Regulators of Counsel Conduct

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2017

Stephan W. Schill
Stephan W. Schill*
Affiliation:
Governance at the University of Amsterdam; Rechtsanwalt (Frankfurt am Main) and Attorney-at-Law (New York). Dr. iur. (Frankfurt 2008); LL.M. (NYU 2006); LL.M. (Augsburg 2002)
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Inaugural Detlev F. Vagts Roundtable on Transnational Law: Transnational Professional Ethics
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 110 , 2016 , pp. 326 - 329
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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References

1 Vagts, Detlev F., The International Legal Profession. A Need for More Governance?, 90 AJIL 250 (1996)Google Scholar.

2 See Catherine Rogers, Ethics in International Arbitration (2014); Arman Sarvarian, Professional Ethics at the International Bar (2013).

3 See Rogers, Catherine A., Context and Institutional Structure in Attorney Regulation: Constructing an Enforcement Regime for International Arbitration, 39 Stan. J. Int'l L. 1, 41–57 (2003)Google Scholar; Paulsson, Jan, Standards of Conduct for Counsel in International Arbitration, 3 Am. Rev. Int'l Arb. 214, 215 (1992)Google Scholar.

4 See Statute of the International Court of Justice, Art. 30(1). Further examples include: Article 16 of the Statute of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; and Article 14 of the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

5 See Hugh Thirlway, Article 30, in The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary 516, 520–21 (Andreas Zimmerman, Christian Tomuschat, Karin Oellers-Frahm & Christian J. Tams eds., 2006) (stating that Article 30 of the Court's Statute constitutes the basis for the Practice Directions).

6 See International Court of Justice, Practice Directions, at http://www.icj-cij.org/documents/index.php?p1=4&p2=4&p3=0.

7 Hrvatska Elektroprivreda v. Slovenia, ICSID Case No. ARB/05/24, Tribunal's Ruling Regarding the Participation of David Mildon QC in Further Stages of the Proceedings, para. 33 (May 6, 2008); Prosecutor v. Beqa Beqaj, Case No. IT-03-66-T-R77, Judgment on Contempt Allegations, paras. 9–10 (Int'l Crim. Trib. for Former Yugoslavia May 27, 2005); Prosecutor v. Duško Tadić, Case No. IT-94-I-A-R77, Judgment on Allegations of Contempt Against Prior Counsel, para. 13 (Int'l Crim. Trib. for Former Yugoslavia Jan. 31, 2000); Vagts, supra note 1, at 253.

8 See Till Gut, Counsel Misconduct Before the International Criminal Court: Professional Responsibility in International Criminal Defence (2012).

9 See Charles N. Brower & Stephan W. Schill, Regulating Counsel Conduct Before International Arbitral Tribunals, in Making Transnational Law Work in the Global Economy: Essays in Honour of Detlev Vagts 488, 500–06 (Pieter H. F. Bekker, Rudolf Dolzer & Michael Waibel eds., 2010) (with further references).

10 See Shabtai Rosenne, The Law and Practice of the International Court 542 (2d ed. 1985) (referencing Corfu Channel, Pleadings, Vol. III, at 187–88). See also Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosn. & Herz. v. Serb. & Montenegro), Provisional Measures, Order, 1993 ICJ Rep. 325, 336–37, para. 21 (Sept. 13).

11 See Keith Highet, Evidence, the Chamber and the ELSI Case, in Fact-Finding Before International Tribunals 33, 65–68 (Richard Lillich ed., 1992); Elettronica Sicula (U.S. v. It.), Judgment, 1989 ICJ Rep. 15, para. 26 (July 20); W. Michael Reisman & Christina Parajon Skinner, Fraudulent Evidence Before Public International Tribunals: The Dirty Stories of International Law 54–77, 163–92 (2014).