O trabalho abordará as conseqüências dos atos terroristas no meio ambiente. A aplicação da disciplina da responsabilidade civil é o mecanismo jurídico adequado para o enfrentamento da questão referente à responsabilidade pelos danos causados ao meio ambiente pela atividade terrorista. Os atos terroristas, que atualmente assombram a comunidade mundial, além de acarretarem inúmeras e terríveis mortes humanas, acarretam também danos ambientais, que podem prejudicar, em muitos casos, grande parte da população mundial, colocando o futuro da humanidade em grave perigo. O meio ambiente é essencial para a sadia qualidade de vida e está interligado ao direito à saúde e à vida, sendo caracterizado como um direito da pessoa humana de terceira geração. Assim, abordaremos o direito a um meio ambiente equilibrado e sadio como um direito fundamental do homem. O meio ambiente reflete valores comuns e superiores e constitui interesse comum de toda a sociedade. Dessa forma, estabelecer o responsável pelos danos ambientais ocorridos e que sejam decorrentes dos atos terroristas mostra-se extremamente relevante, vez que esses atos estão cada vez mais audaciosos e têm prejudicado um número maior de comunidades. Os assuntos relacionados ao terrorismo não conhecem fronteiras, especialmente no que diz respeito às questões sobre as conseqüências desses seus atos no meio ambiente. O mundo não pode ficar inerte a tais acontecimentos. Nesse sentido o Estado desempenha um papel fundamental, tendo em vista possuir o dever na repressão e prevenção do terrorismo e o dever maior da preservação do meio ambiente para as presentes e futuras gerações. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-20T16:41:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Gabriela Grings Fleck.pdf: 797048 bytes, checksum: 9da0174af592ba03c6cd1376ef7c77b0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-20T16:41:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Gabriela Grings Fleck.pdf: 797048 bytes, checksum: 9da0174af592ba03c6cd1376ef7c77b0 (MD5) / The work will deal with the consequences of terrorist acts on the environment. The application of civil responsibility is the proper legal mechanism to face up to the issue of responsibility for the damage caused to the environment by terrorist activity. The acts of terrorist s, which currently haunt the world community, in addition to resulting in the countless and terrible loss of human life, also cause environmental damage, which in many cases put large swathes of the world s population at risk, placing the future of humankind in grave danger. The environment is essential to a healthy quality of life and is intertwined to the right to health and life, which is a third generation human right. Thus, we deal with the right to a balanced and healthy environment as a fundamental right of man. The environment reflects common and higher values and constitutes a common interest of all society. Hence, to establish those responsible for environmental harm resulting from terrorist acts has been shown to be of extreme relevance, given that these acts are increasingly audacious and have been harming a greater number of communities. Terrorism-related issues know no borders, especially as regard the consequences of these acts for the environment. The world cannot remain inert to such events. To this end, the State exercises a fundamental role, bearing in mind it has a duty to repress and prevent terrorism and the greater duty to conserve the environment for present and future generations.

Qu’il s’agisse de prévenir sa survenance, d’empêcher qu’il s’aggrave ou de le réparer, le dommage est omniprésent dans l’arbitrage d’investissement. Il est à l’origine de la procédure contentieuse et de l’utilisation de divers mécanismes incidents. L’investisseur étranger dépose une requête d’arbitrage à l’encontre de l’État d’accueil, ou demande au tribunal saisi l’indication de mesures conservatoires, parce qu’il a subi, ou pourrait subir, un dommage. Le dommage (ré)apparaît également tout au long du déroulement de l’instance. Au stade de la compétence, il encadre l’intérêt pour agir de l’investisseur. Au fond, il apparaît comme un élément établissant l’existence de la violation des règles primaires. Le dommage constitue en outre, de façon plus classique, la mesure de la réparation. Il se manifeste, enfin, dans la finalité de l’arbitrage. L’investisseur entend obtenir l’indemnisation des dommages entretenant un rapport de causalité avec l’acte illicite. La présentation pourtant habituellement faite de ce contentieux l’exclut quasi systématiquement, si ce n’est au moment de la réparation. Les raisons de ce rejet se comprennent aisément si le dommage est uniquement analysé à la lumière de la position de la Commission du droit international, qui ne l’envisage que sous l’angle de son lien avec la responsabilité de l’État. Mais, à mieux y regarder, il ne se justifie plus si le dommage est replacé dans le contexte particulier du contentieux dans lequel il intervient. Il s’agira alors d’examiner le rôle du dommage, d’en caractériser et d’en expliquer la spécificité par rapport à celui qu’il occupe en droit international public et dans le contentieux interétatique, et de déterminer la mesure dans laquelle ce rôle spécifique influe sur la responsabilité de l’État d’accueil. / The harm is omnipresent in investment arbitration. It is at the origin of the proceedings and of the use of different incident mechanisms. A foreign investor files a request for arbitration against the host State, or asks for provisional measures, because it has or might have incurred damages due to the breach by the host State of its international obligations. The harm also (re)emerges all along the proceedings. At the jurisdiction stage, it determines the investor’s standing to act. At the merits stage, it is an element which establishes the violation of the applicable primary rules. Furthermore, the harm is, more classically, the measure of the reparation. Lastly, it reflects the purpose of arbitration. The investor requires compensation for losses which are causally linked to the breach. However, the presentation usually made of this dispute resolution mechanism almost systematically excludes it, except for issues concerning reparation. The reasons for this rejection can easily be understood if the harm is only analysed in the light of the International Law Commission’s position, which only considers the question from the perspective of its relation with State responsibility. But this rejection is no longer justified if the harm is replaced within the particular context in which it operates. Thus, this study will examine the role conferred to the harm in investment arbitration, characterise and explain its specificity compared with that it occupies in public international law and in inter-States disputes, and determine how and to what extent this specific role may affect State responsibility.

O trabalho abordará as conseqüências dos atos terroristas no meio ambiente. A aplicação da disciplina da responsabilidade civil é o mecanismo jurídico adequado para o enfrentamento da questão referente à responsabilidade pelos danos causados ao meio ambiente pela atividade terrorista. Os atos terroristas, que atualmente assombram a comunidade mundial, além de acarretarem inúmeras e terríveis mortes humanas, acarretam também danos ambientais, que podem prejudicar, em muitos casos, grande parte da população mundial, colocando o futuro da humanidade em grave perigo. O meio ambiente é essencial para a sadia qualidade de vida e está interligado ao direito à saúde e à vida, sendo caracterizado como um direito da pessoa humana de terceira geração. Assim, abordaremos o direito a um meio ambiente equilibrado e sadio como um direito fundamental do homem. O meio ambiente reflete valores comuns e superiores e constitui interesse comum de toda a sociedade. Dessa forma, estabelecer o responsável pelos danos ambientais ocorridos e que sejam decorrentes dos atos terroristas mostra-se extremamente relevante, vez que esses atos estão cada vez mais audaciosos e têm prejudicado um número maior de comunidades. Os assuntos relacionados ao terrorismo não conhecem fronteiras, especialmente no que diz respeito às questões sobre as conseqüências desses seus atos no meio ambiente. O mundo não pode ficar inerte a tais acontecimentos. Nesse sentido o Estado desempenha um papel fundamental, tendo em vista possuir o dever na repressão e prevenção do terrorismo e o dever maior da preservação do meio ambiente para as presentes e futuras gerações. / The work will deal with the consequences of terrorist acts on the environment. The application of civil responsibility is the proper legal mechanism to face up to the issue of responsibility for the damage caused to the environment by terrorist activity. The acts of terrorist s, which currently haunt the world community, in addition to resulting in the countless and terrible loss of human life, also cause environmental damage, which in many cases put large swathes of the world s population at risk, placing the future of humankind in grave danger. The environment is essential to a healthy quality of life and is intertwined to the right to health and life, which is a third generation human right. Thus, we deal with the right to a balanced and healthy environment as a fundamental right of man. The environment reflects common and higher values and constitutes a common interest of all society. Hence, to establish those responsible for environmental harm resulting from terrorist acts has been shown to be of extreme relevance, given that these acts are increasingly audacious and have been harming a greater number of communities. Terrorism-related issues know no borders, especially as regard the consequences of these acts for the environment. The world cannot remain inert to such events. To this end, the State exercises a fundamental role, bearing in mind it has a duty to repress and prevent terrorism and the greater duty to conserve the environment for present and future generations.

This thesis aimed to, with the help of a case study, investigate and discuss state responsibility towards climate refugees. The state of Tuvalu was selected because of their vulnerability as a low-lying island state. This was fulfilled by on-site study how the state Tuvalu acted to climate threats, determine if the future migrants from Tuvalu can be counted as climate refugees and find out if they are by that definition included by the UN Refugee Convention. The result indicated that the state of Tuvalu is adapting to climate threats, that in the future the population can be seen as climate refugees, if they are forced from their homes due to climate change, and that they, despite that definition, can not be included by the UN Refugee Convention. The study also indicates a need for greater international protection of climate refugees by, for example, an expansion of the UN Refugee Convention so that these vulnerable people do not fall into oblivion due to a question of definition.

Magister Legum - LLM / South Africa

A première vue, les obligations de l’Etat déterminent les comportements de ce dernier, et l’on ne perçoit pas en quoi le droit interne pourrait leur porter atteinte. Pourtant, la production de certains actes juridiques, entendus par le droit international comme réalisant immédiatement des situations individuelles, pourra être considérée comme une violation de ces obligations. Avant même leur exécution, un fait internationalement illicite pourra être consacré. Certaines règles juridiques, en revanche, apparaîtront plus abstraites au regard du droit international, et ne pourront donner lieu, de leur simple fait, qu’à un risque de violation des obligations de l’Etat. Il faudra alors envisager une autre catégorie d’obligations qui, cette fois, se porteront sur l’état du droit interne général. L’existence de règles dont l’état n’est pas celui requis par ces obligations pourra alors donner lieu à un fait internationalement illicite. Se pose toutefois, dans un second temps, la question de la responsabilité qui peut naître de tels faits, dont les conséquences préjudiciables semblent bien limitées. Plus le droit interne à l’origine de l’illicéité sera abstrait, plus la responsabilité de l’Etat s’éloignera d’une quelconque dimension réparatoire, pour se tourner vers une garantie de la légalité future. Vient alors la problématique de la mise en oeuvre de cette responsabilité. Les conditions classiques de recevabilité des demandes devant les juridictions internationales peuvent en effet s’opposer à ce que puisse être prise en compte une violation du fait du droit interne in abstracto. Alors que ces obstacles pourront aisément être levés dans le cas des actes juridiques individuels, les règles internes en conflit avec les obligations de l’Etat seront, à des degrés divers, plus difficiles à mettre en cause dans un cadre contentieux. Toutefois, certaines juridictions ou quasi-juridictions internationales s’affranchissent aujourd’hui de ce cadre, incitant ainsi fortement les Etats à adapter leur droit interne, selon les nouvelles exigences du droit international. / At first sight, international obligations define real actions of States. Domestic law seems, from certain points of view, unable to affect them. However, the mere enactment of national legal acts, understood by international law as immediate realizations of individual situations, may be amount to a breach of these international obligations. Without any enforcement, an international wrongful act will be exposed. Nevertheless, some domestic norms will still be very abstract from an international point of view. Their creation and maintenance in force can’t be seen an international failure rather a risk. Thus, our task will be to find some other kind of State’s obligations, that relates specifically to a given state of general domestic law. An international wrongful act will be then constituted by the very existence of a national norm, if its state is not the one required by international law. Still, the question of State responsibility for such actions, which don’t cause any concrete injury, has to be answered. The more abstract domestic law is, the furthest responsibility will be from a restorative dimension. Responsibility will only be aimed at protecting the international rule of law for the future. Finally, this leads us to the question of the implementation of this responsibility, since classic international litigation law can prevent a claim against domestic law as a wrongful act. This challenge is easily overcome as long as an individual legal act is at stake. On the contrary, a claim against the fact of a general norm is, on different levels, far more difficult to present before international courts. Today however, some international tribunals go beyond this frame, urging States to adapt their domestic law, following the new exigencies of international law.

Esta tese busca analisar os limites e possibilidades do regime da responsabilidade internacional do Estado como garantia da Ordem Pública Internacional, procurando demonstrar os riscos da implementação unilateral da responsabilidade. Inicialmente, através da análise do desenvolvimento normativo do instituto da responsabilidade internacional do Estado, a partir do pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial, buscamos apontar os principais indicadores do momento de transição paradigmática do sistema internacional contemporâneo, ao revelarem-se tanto as bases de identidade desse sistema quanto os traços de transformação que o atravessam. Partimos da hipótese de que as mudanças normativas operadas no instituto da responsabilidade internacional, no período em estudo, têm sido orientadas, em sua maioria, no mesmo sentido das transformações valorativas verificadas no âmbito do Direito Internacional Público como um todo. O que, já adiantamos, significa dizer, em apertada síntese, mudanças no sentido de um direito interestatal ? relacional e bilateral ? para um direito da comunidade internacional no seu conjunto. Tendo, então, em mente a realidade de descentralização em que se concretizam as normas internacionais, nossa segunda hipótese é de que esses avanços normativos não têm par no plano institucional e que essa lacuna gera à comunidade internacional os riscos da implementação unilateral da responsabilidade. Especificamente, analisamos o conceito, os valores, a legitimidade e as consequências substanciais e instrumentais do instituto da responsabilidade internacional do Estado como garantia da ordem pública internacional, focando a projeção da noção de comunidade internacional no seu regime, e os obstáculos normativos e sistêmicos que a sua proteção enfrenta em um sistema internacional descentralizado.

Esta tese busca analisar os limites e possibilidades do regime da responsabilidade internacional do Estado como garantia da Ordem Pública Internacional, procurando demonstrar os riscos da implementação unilateral da responsabilidade. Inicialmente, através da análise do desenvolvimento normativo do instituto da responsabilidade internacional do Estado, a partir do pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial, buscamos apontar os principais indicadores do momento de transição paradigmática do sistema internacional contemporâneo, ao revelarem-se tanto as bases de identidade desse sistema quanto os traços de transformação que o atravessam. Partimos da hipótese de que as mudanças normativas operadas no instituto da responsabilidade internacional, no período em estudo, têm sido orientadas, em sua maioria, no mesmo sentido das transformações valorativas verificadas no âmbito do Direito Internacional Público como um todo. O que, já adiantamos, significa dizer, em apertada síntese, mudanças no sentido de um direito interestatal ? relacional e bilateral ? para um direito da comunidade internacional no seu conjunto. Tendo, então, em mente a realidade de descentralização em que se concretizam as normas internacionais, nossa segunda hipótese é de que esses avanços normativos não têm par no plano institucional e que essa lacuna gera à comunidade internacional os riscos da implementação unilateral da responsabilidade. Especificamente, analisamos o conceito, os valores, a legitimidade e as consequências substanciais e instrumentais do instituto da responsabilidade internacional do Estado como garantia da ordem pública internacional, focando a projeção da noção de comunidade internacional no seu regime, e os obstáculos normativos e sistêmicos que a sua proteção enfrenta em um sistema internacional descentralizado.

Si le droit administratif colombien se fonde sur les mêmes principes que le droit administratif français, l’interdiction de l’arbitrage aux personnes morales de droit public n’a pas été reprise en Colombie. La jurisprudence a admis l’application de l’arbitrage aux contrats publics même en l’absence d’autorisation législative. Le principe de légalité, la continuité du service public et le respect de l’intérêt public fondent le droit des contrats publics. Cependant, celui-ci se développe sous l’égide du droit commun des obligations et des contrats et il partage les aspects essentiels du droit de l’arbitrage : l’autonomie de la volonté et la liberté contractuelle. Si le droit colombien n’impose aucune limite à l’arbitrage des contrats publics depuis 1993 alors que les lois antérieures en fixaient, cette évolution législative peut-elle être interprétée comme l’octroi de compétences équivalentes aux arbitres et au juge administratif ? Le régime du droit commun de l’arbitrage s’adapte-t-il aux besoins du contentieux des contrats publics ? Quelle est la portée de ce changement pour l’arbitrage international des contrats publics ? Au-delà des contradictions apparentes, les principes des contrats publics n’entrent pas en confrontation avec les notions essentielles à l’arbitrage. La compétence des arbitres se limite aux contentieux subjectifs des contrats publics. La jurisprudence forgée en la matière depuis 1964 s’est consolidée au fil du temps, nous permettant d’évaluer l’efficacité et l’effectivité de l’arbitrage des contrats publics. / Even though Colombian and French administrative law are grounded on the same principles, Colombian administrative law did not adopt the stance that public legal bodies are prevented from agreeing arbitration clauses and submitting their disputes to arbitration. Colombian case law has recognized arbitration clauses in relation to disputes arising out of public contracts, even when there is no specific legal authorization to do so. The principle of the rule of law, the continuity of the provision of public services, the public interest and the existence of a specialized administrative jurisdiction, are the foundations of public contract law. Nevertheless, public contract law is implemented under the aegis of contract law and it shares essential aspects of arbitration law: the autonomy of the parties free will and freedom of contract. Since 1993, Colombian law has not imposed any limit on the arbitration of disputes arising out of public contracts, even if former laws did so. Could this legal progress be construed as granting similar jurisdiction to arbitrators and administrative judges? Is general arbitration law suitable for the needs of the settlement of disputes arising out of public contracts? What is the scope of this change for the international arbitration of disputes arising out of public contracts? Despite the apparent contradictions, the essential tenets of public contracts, do not conflict with the key components of arbitration. The jurisdiction of arbitrators is confined to “contentieux subjectifs”. Colombian case law has developed since 1964 and has been consolidated over time, allowing us to evaluate to what extent the arbitration of disputes arising out of public contracts is an effective and efficient tool for public administration.

While there are many examples to turn to regarding the thriving phenomenon of private persons being exploited to launch cyber attacks on behalf of states, this thesis will direct it’s attention onto two special cases. Russia has been accused of being the state actor behind the cyber attacks on Estonia in 2007 and Georgia in 2008. The cases are chosen as Estonia have been recognised as the first coordinated cyber attack on a foreign country, and Georgia being the first case were cyber attacks have been utilised in synchronisation with military action. The purpose of the thesis is to analyse the facts of each case in relation to the International Law Commission’s Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (DARSIWA). The analysis will work through article 4, article 5, article 8 and article 11. The main question is how Russia may be hold as legally responsible under international law for the private conduct of ’patriotic’ hackers, the Nashi Youth Group and the Russian Business Network. The thesis concludes that while the circumstances of each case highly indicate state-involvement, this cannot be proven under the respective criterias of the articles and Russia does therefore not bear legal responsibility.