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Mr. Donald M. McRae

Mr. Donald M. McRae
Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Law
University of Ottawa

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Peaceful Settlement of Disputes
Varieties of International Dispute Settlement: From Litigation to Conciliation
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Peaceful Settlement of Disputes
Varieties of International Dispute Settlement: From Litigation to Conciliation
A. Legal Instruments

Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 (Text of the Conventions available on the website of Yale Law School’s Avalon Project).

Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, Geneva, 13 December 1920, League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 6, p. 390.

Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice, San Francisco, 26 June 1945.

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Geneva, 30 October 1947, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 55, p. 187.

Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States, Washington, 18 March 1965, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 575, p. 159.

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Montego Bay, 10 December 1982, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, p.3.

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

Treaty between Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste on certain maritime arrangements in the Timor Sea, Sydney, 12 January 2006, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2483, p. 359.   

Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union, Brussels, 30 October 2016. 

B. Jurisprudence

Permanent Court of Arbitration, In the Matter of the Maritime Boundary between Timor-Leste and Australia (The “Timor Sea Conciliation”), Award of 9 May 2018, Nº 2016-10.

C. Documents

Administered Arbitration Rules, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, 2018.