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The International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) are both empowered to request States to freeze individuals'assets. Regardless of their duration, such measures necessarily infringe upon the targets'rights. Yet, the longer assets are frozen, the more acute these infringements can become. ICC-requested asset freezes can endure from the issuance of an arrest warrant until the accused is acquitted or convicted, whereas UNSC ordered measures continue until international peace and security is restored. Asset freezes executed at the behest of the ICC and the UNSC are therefore rarely short in duration. The focus of this book rests on the two bodies'exercise of their asset freezing powers, with a particular emphasis on the legal protections available to the individuals at the receiving end of the procedures with which the ICC and the UNSC are equipped. This book will be of interest to practitioners, academics, government officials, members of civil society, and postgraduate students with an interest in public international law, especially international criminal justice and international human rights law.

Das internationale Zwangsvollstreckungsrecht wird nach verbreiteter Auffassung durch das Territorialitätsprinzip beherrscht. Vollstreckungsakte, die ohne körperlichen Zugriff auskommen, können jedoch nicht eindeutig lokalisiert werden. Tanja Domej zeichnet aus vergleichender Perspektive die Kontroversen nach, die sich vor diesem Hintergrund um die Bedeutung des Territorialitätsprinzips für die grenzüberschreitende Forderungspfändung ranken. Sie zeigt, dass sich die relevanten Sachprobleme auf Basis dieses Prinzips nicht lösen lassen, aber auch eine schlichte Übernahme international-zivilprozessrechtlicher Konzepte für das Erkenntnisverfahren den Besonderheiten des Zwangsvollstreckungsrechts nicht Rechnung trägt. Auf Basis einer Analyse der zuständigkeitsrechtlichen Interessen der Beteiligten entwickelt sie Perspektiven für eine interessengerechte Ausgestaltung der grenzüberschreitenden Zwangsvollstreckung in unkörperliches Vermögen.

Because of the rise in cross-border disputes – and due to the ease with which assets can be moved around the world with the help of online banking and fiduciary service providers – parties are increasingly finding themselves suing or being sued outside their home jurisdictions. This book is about how to find out whether a defendant has any assets before initiating costly litigation, arbitration, or insolvency proceedings, and if so how to freeze such assets with the aim of eventually enforcing a judgment or award. Nineteen country chapters by lawyers with decades of hands-on experience in helping their clients find, freeze, and attach defendants'assets provide practical guidance to legal professionals representing parties in cross-border commercial lawsuits, international arbitration proceedings, simple debt collection matters, enforcement proceedings, divorce proceedings, inheritance matters, and other legal matters where the assets in dispute are thought to be located abroad. Each contribution offers an overview of the pre-trial asset tracing techniques and rules regulating freezing orders and enforcement methods in the jurisdiction covered, describing not just what the law says but how the law actually works. The jurisdictions covered include several of the offshore havens that are frequently used to hide assets in. The authors attend to such issues and topics as the following: • investigating whether a potential counterparty owns vessels, aircrafts, motor vehicles, real estate, or intellectual property rights; • locating offshore trusts; • discovering assets transferred to a family member or corporate entity; • exposing sham investments designed to generate a (fictitious) loss of assets; and • invoking remedies available to a party facing asset shielding manoeuvres. This book will quickly become an indispensable tool for international litigators, arbitration lawyers, and lawyers involved in cross-border insolvency and debt recovery proceedings, as well as for academics and scholars involved in legal research projects or law reform programs. Renowned litigator Robert Shapiro says in his Foreword:'The authors provide the reader with practical guidance into the complex area of cross-border asset tracing and do so in a very down-to-earth way, without the academic hyperbole that generally burdens modern legal textbooks.'