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Les formes contemporaines de l'esclavage par Emmanuel DECAUX Depuis pres de deux siecles, la question de l'esclavage et de la traite negriere est au coeur des relations internationales. Du Congres de Vienne de 1815 qui denonce un commerce repugnant aux principes d'humanite et de morale universelle jusqu'a la Cour internationale de Justice qui evoque en 1970 les principes et [l]es regles concernant les droits fondamentaux de la personne humaine, y compris la protection contre la pratique de l'esclavage comme source d'obligations erga omnes, le droit international contemporain est caracterise par la construction progressive d'un regime international relevant de la notion de jus cogens. Alors que de nombreux travaux recents evoquent l'esclavage sous l'angle historique ou dans une perspective contemporaine, cet ouvrage presente l'originalite de s'inscrire dans une perspective juridique de longue duree, au carrefour des sources formelles et materielles du droit international public, tout en l'eclairant des debats les plus actuels sur les responsabilites historiques en la matiere. Lis Pendens in International Litigation by Campbell MCLACHLAN What legal principles apply when courts in different jurisdictions are simultaneously seised with the same dispute ? This question - of international lis pendens - has long been controversial. But it has taken on new and urgent importance in our age. Globalization has driven an unprecedented rise in forum shopping between national courts and a proliferation of new international tribunals. Problems of litispendence have spawned some of the most dramatic litigation of modern times - from anti-suit injunction battles in commercial disputes, to the appeals of prisoners on death row to international human rights tribunals. The way we respond to this challenge has profound theoretical implications for the interaction of legal systems in today's pluralistic world. In this wide-ranging survey, McLachlan analyses the problems of parallel litigation - in private and public international law and international arbitration. He argues that we need to develop a more sophisticated set of rules of conflict of litigations, guided by a cosmopolitan conception of the rule of law.

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