New Political Entities in Public and Private International Law : : with special reference to the Palestinian Entity / / edited by Amos Shapira and Mala Tabory.

• Superior document: International Law - Book Archive pre-2000
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 1999.; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: International Law - Book Archive pre-2000.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (442 pages)

New political entities usually come into being in the midst of political wrangling, often accompanied by security problems and, not infrequently, violence. This book, taking the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as its starting point, goes on to deal with the general problems of new entities, including such core concepts as sovereignty, autonomy and legal personality. In exploring human rights issues, the complex notions of nationality and minority rights are examined. On a more practical level, several authors inquire into issues of legal assistance in civil and criminal matters, security arrangements, fiscal and monetary policies, foreign investment guarantees, economic privatization, and transboundary water pollution. On many of these topics, German and European legal experience is introduced to shed a useful comparative light. Altogether, this volume represents an attempt to provide a primer for those responsible for, or interested in, the various aspects of new political entities at the end of the second millennium.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Amos Shapira and Mala Tabory -- Foreword / Prof. Amos Shapira and Dr. Mala Tabory -- Autonomy and Sovereignty – Are They Mutually Exclusive? / Ruth Lapidoth -- The Oslo Peace Process – A View from Within / Joel Singer -- Unraveling the Knot Negotiating Civil Autonomy Amidst Security and Political Uncertainty / Daniel Reisner -- New Political Entities and the Conflict of Laws – A German View / Daniel Busse -- The Legal Personality of the Palestinian Autonomy / Mala Tabory -- Sharing and Transferring Responsibilities for Security and Public Order / Tobias Stoll -- The Palestinian Autonomy and International Human Rights Law: Perspectives on an Ongoing Process of Nation-Building / Thomas Giegerich -- The Nationality of the Inhabitants of the Palestinian Autonomous Territories / Andreas Zimmermann -- Minority Rights and the New Political Entities in International Law / Natan Lerner -- The Oslo Peace Process and International Human Rights / Fania Domb -- Financing Autonomy through Financial Autonomy? / Thilo Marauhn -- Protecting Foreign Investments in the Palestinian Autonomous Territories / Heiner Braun -- Economies in Transition: The Central and Eastern Europe Experience and the New Palestinian Autonomy – A Private and Economic Law Perspective / Andrea Peddinghaus -- The Role of Conflicts of Laws Regarding the Transboundary Pollution of Water / Nicolas Blanchard -- Back Matter -- Index / Amos Shapira and Mala Tabory.