TY - CHAP

T1 - The Right to Consular Assistance Under International Law

T2 - The LaGrand Case Before the International Court of Justice

AU - Mennecke, Martin

AU - Tams, Christian

PY - 1999

Y1 - 1999

N2 - Despite constant declarations on the virtue of dispute settlement through international courts and tribunals,² Germany has never been a very active participant in proceedings before the international community’s “principal judicial organ,” the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In this regard, the year 1999 has brought a change: Besides its forced appearance as one of the respondent States in the Kosovo Cases³ Germany also instituted proceedings with the Court in the LaGrand Case in order to protect the life of one of its nationals, Walter LaGrand, who had been sentenced to the death penalty in Arizona, and to seek reparation for...

AB - Despite constant declarations on the virtue of dispute settlement through international courts and tribunals,² Germany has never been a very active participant in proceedings before the international community’s “principal judicial organ,” the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In this regard, the year 1999 has brought a change: Besides its forced appearance as one of the respondent States in the Kosovo Cases³ Germany also instituted proceedings with the Court in the LaGrand Case in order to protect the life of one of its nationals, Walter LaGrand, who had been sentenced to the death penalty in Arizona, and to seek reparation for...

KW - Law

UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1q6bbtr?turn_away=true

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-3-428-10216-7

T3 - German Yearbook of International Law - Jahrbuch für Internationales Recht

SP - 192

EP - 241

BT - German Yearbook of International Law - Jahrbuch für Internationales Recht 1999

A2 - Delbrück, Jost

A2 - Hofmann, Rainer

A2 - Zimmermann, Andreas

PB - Duncker & Humblot GmbH

CY - Berlin

ER -