Politicising Law or Legalising Politics? Justiciability and the ‘Political Question’ Doctrine in International Justice

Human Rights Law Journal. 2020. Vol. 40. No. 1-12. P. 29–34.

Galperin M.

I. Introduction ..................................................................... 29
1. The Yukos case before the European Court
of Human Rights.......................................................... 29
2. The cases of three major shareholders of Yukos
Oil Company in investment arbitration under
the auspices of the Permanent Court of
Arbitration in The Hague........................................... 30
II. Justiciability and ‘Political Question’
in American Law.............................................................. 30
III. International Policy and International Justice............. 30
IV. Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions
of Justiciability: The May 2020 judgment
of the German Federal Constitutional Court
(re: ultra vires acts)........................................................... 31
V. Separation of Powers and International Law............... 32
VI. Limits of Investment Arbitration Competence........... 32
VII. Concluding remarks......................................................... 34

Keywords: jurisdiction, юрисдикция, international arbitration, международный арбитраж, international justice, международное правосудие