Administrative and Expert Monitoring of International Treaties

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This work is an in-depth examination of the monitoring controls in some of the world’s major international organizations and other treaty regimes. The editor, one of the foremost and most experienced authorities in this specialized but crucially important field, shows how monitoring is used in the common interest to ensure the stability and growth of global standards in such diverse areas as human rights, environmental protection and arms control.

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Paul C. Szasz was Director of the General Legal Division, United Nations, until 1989. He was also a frequent legal consultant to the UN, to the Attorney General of Namibia, and to the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia. He was an Adjunct Professor of International Law at New York University.

Foreword, Paul C. Szasz; Chapter 1. Introduction, Paul C. Szasz;
PART I: HUMAN RIGHTS;
Chapter 2. Ad Hoc and Extra-Conventional Means for Human Rights Monitoring, Allison L. Jernow;
Chapter 3. Human Rights Monitoring: Universal and Regional Treaty Bodies, R. Andrew Painter;
Chapter 4. Human Rights Monitoring: Procedures and Decision-Making of Standing United Nations Organs, Daniel A. Silien;
PART II: ENVIRONMENT;
Chapter 5. Protection of the Ozone Layer: The Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol,
Sasha Thomas-Nuruddin;
Chapter 6. Implementation of Biodiversity Treaties: Monitoring, Fact-Finding, and Dispute Resolution, Daniel Vice;
Chapter 7. The World Trade Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Canadian-US Free Trade Agreement: Dispute Resolution Procedures and the Environment,
James E. Brown III;
PART III: NUCLEAR SAFETY AND DISARMAMENT;
Chapter 8. Monitoring Compliance with Nuclear Safety Standards: Peer Review through the International Atomic Energy Agency and Its Convention on Nuclear Safety, Monica J. Washington;
Chapter 9. Chemical and Biological Weapons: Monitoring Compliance with Arms Control Agreements, Jennifer D. Wheatley;
APPENDICES;
Appendix 1. The Environment, Arms Control, Human Rights, and the World Bank, Ibrahim F. I. Shihata; Appendix 2. Is It Monitoring or Compliance-Control?, Winfried Lang;ANNEXES;
INDEX;
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