Definition(s)
The process of carrying on a lawsuit - with regard to international law - at a tribunal or court which is mandated to in the respective international agreement (i.e. the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)(Source: drafted from Black's Law Dictionary)
Hierarchy
Broader: dispute settlement
In other languages
French
contentieux
Russian
судебный процесс
Spanish
pleito
Chinese, Simplified
诉讼
Arabic
التقاضي
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