International organizations and their host states : aspects of their legal relationship / by A.S. Muller.

International organizations and their host states : aspects of their legal relationship / by A.S. Muller.

xvii, 317 pages ; 25 cm.

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9789041100801 hardcover

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Price : NLG 177.00; Invoice No 148225; Invoice date 28-03-97; Supplier : Nedbook International, Amsterdam; Recd 07/04/97; Table of Contents : Part 1. Introduction and definitions; 1. Introduction : 1. Introduction; 2. General scope of the study : the parties; 3. Development of the law; 4. The nature of the relationship between international organizations and their host states; 5. Conclusion; 2. Host arrangements : 1. Introduction; 2. Host agreements constituent treaties; 3. Host agreements and multilateral conventions; 4. Host agreements and supplemental or additional agreements; 5. Host agreements and international customary law; 6. Host agreements, national legislation and decisions of national tribunals; 7. A hierarchy of norms? 8. Concluding observations; Part 2. Legal personality : 3. Legal personality of international organizations : 1. Introduction; 2. Legal personality on the international level; 3. National legal personality; 4. General conclusion; Part 3. The seat, privileges, and immunities : 4. The seat of international organizations : 1. Introduction; 2. The description of the seat; 3. Laws applying to the seat; 4. Owner, tenant or other user? 5. Supply of public services and other amenities; 6. Conclusion; 5. Immunity from legal process : 1. Introduction; 2. International immunity and functional necessity; 3. Immunity from legal process in host arrangements; 4. Waiver of immunity; 5. Jurisdictional immunity in practice; 6. Settlement of private law disputes; 7. Conclusion; 6. Inviolability of premises, assets and archives of the organization : 1. Introduction; 2. Inviolability of premises, assets and grounds of the organization; 3. Inviolability of the archives; 4. Conclusion; 7. Freedom of communication : 1. Introduction; 2. Scope of the privilege; 3. Abstention and protection; 4. Extent of the official communications and publications; 5. Means of communication; 6. Priority treatment for communications; 7. Conclusion; 8. Fiscal, customs, and financial immunities : 1. Introduction; 2. Fiscal immunities : contents; 3. Exemptions from customs duties and all export and import restrictions; 4. Freedom to hold, transfer, and convert funds, gold and currency; 5. Conclusion; Part 4. Final conclusion : 1. The starting point : host arrangements; 2. The substantive provisions; 3. The host arrangement and its contents : underlying concepts and principles; 4. An outlook to the future;.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-302) and index.

Legal aspects of international organization ; vol. 21.

The Hague : Kluwer Law International, 1995.

English