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Mr. Jan Klabbers
Professor of International Law
Helsiniki University

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Rule of Law, Democracy and
Good Governance
Law, Ethics and Global Governance
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(5/7/2012, 40 minutes)
Rule of Law, Democracy and Good Governance
Law, Ethics and Global Governance
A. Legal Instruments
Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice, San Francisco, 26 June 1945.

Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (with final act, annexes and protocol), Marrakesh, 15 April 1994, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1867, p. 3.

Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto, 11 December 1997, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2303, p. 148.
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B. Jurisprudence

International Court of Justice, Difference relating to Immunity from Legal Process of a Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, Advisory Opinion of 29 April 1999, I.C.J. Reports 1999, p. 62.


C. Doctrine

J. Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, 1832.

J. Gruber, Controlling Bureaucracies: Dilemmas in Democratic Governance, University of California Press, Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1987.

H. Lauterpacht, The Function of Law in the International Community, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1933.