Since some universities control themselves - and no local or governmental ministry of science can do anything against some form of plagiarism -, there does not seem to be a real chance to dispute plagiarism and plagiarism supporting professors and institutions under common scientific and even written rules of such universities. On the other hand, over the past decades several arbitration courts evolved in different (non-scientific) areas, like sports (CAS), internet disputes (ADR.eu). Maybe there is something similar already in science - or should one develop this idea further to give plagiarized scientists a chance to dispute this in an independent arbitration court. One advantage of some arbitration courts apper to be the relatively low costs compared to regular courts.
Plagiarism on an international level, scientific issues may be beyond any kind of arbitration method. Even if there were, including some form of binding arbitration, how could any dispute within science as its basis, unless a patented process, on an international method be logically arbitrated? Are their existing agreements to arbitration in place? Who would have jurisdiction? Philosophical thoughts are hard to consider, much less without a scientific example to describe here, the issue appears to be moot.
Recently, (in a very different issue, i.e. nothing to do with plagiarism) a Munich based company was found guilty at an international arbitration court - the judge was a German professor of law, so I think the advantage of cheap and fast results should be considered to establish a similarly fast and cheap arbitration court for leading scientific institutions to avoid further plagiarism of universities and their supporting governments - with a more independent , international arbitration court. I can imagine that, after establishing such an arbitration court in science, good journals would only allow manuscripts from universities and institutions supporting such an international arbitration court.
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