Regulating Jurisdictional Relations Between National and International Courts

Yuval Shany served since 2005 as a Senior Lecturer, at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law (and since 2006, he is also the Academic Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University). His education comprises of an LL.B. cum laude from the Hebrew University 1995; an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University, 1997 and a PhD in Law, from SOAS, at the University of London, 2001. Before joining the Hebrew University, Shany has occupied the position of a senior lecture at the Law School of the College of Management Academic Studies in Israel.Shany has spent time in Harvard as a Research Fellow in the Harvard Human Rights Program (2004-2005), and as a Visiting Researcher at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (2005). Later on this year, he will be a Visiting Professor at the Georgetown Law Center (2007).Shany has been a Member of the Israeli Bar since 1996 and among his recent publications are: Toward a General Margin of Appreciation Doctrine, 16 European Journal of International Law 907 (2005); Contract Claims v. Treaty Claims: Mapping the Conflicts between ICSID Decisions on Multi-Sourced Investment Claims 99 American Journal of International Law 835 (2005); Jurisdictional Competition between International and National Courts: Should International Jurisdiction-Regulating Rules Apply, XXXVII Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (forthcoming in 2007)

The plethora of issues arising from the discussion of the themes tackled in this book cannot but further demonstrate its value: we are likely to face and to study similar matters repeatedly, and this book surely provides us with the rights theoretical framework and the suitable set of practical information and precedents which will definitely be of use to us in finding our way in these 'unchartered' lands.

• PART I: COMPETING PARADIGMA FOR DELINEATING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COURTS; CONCLUSIONS