International Law In Brief
1998 Cumulative Table of Contents
Developments in international law, prepared by the
Attorney-Editors of
International Legal Materials
The American Society of International Law
ASEAN -- Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASIL -- The American Society of International Law
EC -- European Communities
EU -- European Union
ECHR -- European Court of Human Rights
ECJ -- European Court of Justice
ICJ -- International Court of Justice
ICTR -- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
ICTY -- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
ILIB -- International Law In Brief
ILO -- International Labour Organization
OAS -- Organization of American States
OECD -- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
RIZ -- Law Centre for European and International Cooperation
U.K. -- United Kingdom
U.N. -- United Nations
U.S. -- United States
WTO -- World Trade Organization
British Columbia - Nisga'a Nation: Nisga'a Final Treaty Agreement, signed at New Aiyansh, British Columbia, August 4, 1998 [ILIB 8/24 - 8/28 1998]
Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, done at Rotterdam, September 10-11, 1998, U.N. Doc. UNEP/FAO/PIC/CONF/2 (Sept. 11, 1998) [ILIB 10/5 - 10/9 1998]
Council of Europe, Convention (No. 172) on the Protection of the Environment Through
Criminal Law, ETS No. 172 (Nov. 4, 1998) [ILIB 12/28/1998 - 1/8/1999]
Ecuador-Peru: Tratado de Comercio y Navigacion entre las Republicas del Peru y del Ecuador (Ecuador-Peru Commerce and Navigation Treaty) (Spanish text) [ILIB 11/16 - 11/27 1998]
Federal Republic of the FR Of Yugoslavia - OSCE: Agreement on the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission, done at Belgrade, October 16, 1998 [ILIB 10/19 - 10/23 1998]
Agreement Between the Government of Guinea Bissau and the Self-Proclaimed Military Junta, done at Abuja, Nigeria, November 1, 1998 [ILIB 11/16 - 11/27 1998]
Israel-Palestine Liberation Organization: The Wye River Memorandum, done at Washington, October 23, 1998 [ILIB 10/26 - 11/6 1998]
Mexico-Nicaragua: Tratado de Libre Comercio entre los Estados Unidos Mexicanos y la Republica de Nicaragua (Mexico-Nicaragua Free Trade Agreement) (Spanish text) [ILIB 9/28 - 10/2 1998]
Russia-U.S.: Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation for Promotion of Aircraft Safety, done at Moscow, September 2, 1998 [ILIB 9/7 - 9/11 1998]
Australia High Court: Re Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Ex parte SE [1998] HCA 72 (Nov. 25, 1998) [ILIB 12/7 - 12/11 1998]
Canada Supreme Court: R v. Cook, No. 25852 (Oct. 1, 1998) [ILIB 12/7 - 12/11 1998]
Canada Supreme Court: Reference re Secession of Quebec, File No. 25506 (August 20, 1998) [ILIB 8/24 - 8/28 1998]
ECHR: A v. United Kingdom, 100/97/884/1096 (Sept. 23, 1998) [ILIB 10/26 - 11/6 1998]
ECHR: Assenov and Others v. Bulgaria, 90/1997/874/1086 (Oct. 28, 1998) [ILIB 11/8 - 11/13 1998]
ECHR: Case of Lauko v. Slovakia, No. 4/1998/907/1119 (Sept. 2, 1998) [ILIB 9/14 - 9/25 1998]
ECHR: Lehideaux and Isorni v. France, 55/1997/839/1045 (Sept. 23, 1998) [ILIB 10/19 - 10-23 1998]
ECHR: Case of Sheffield and Horsham v. The United Kingdom, No.31-32/1997/815-816/1018-1019 (July 30, 1998) [ILIB 8/31 - 9/4 1998]
ECJ: Reference re Ditlev Bluhme, C-67/97 (Dec. 3, 1998) [ILIB 12/14 - 12/18 1998]
ICTR: The Prosecutor v. Jean-Paul Akayesu, ICCTR-96-4-T (Sept. 2, 1998) [ILIB 8/31 - 9/4 1998]
ICTR: The Prosecutor v. Jean Kambanda, Judgment and Sentence) ICTR-97-23-S (Sept. 4, 1998) [ILIB 9/7 - 9/11 1998]
ICJ: Request for an Advisory Opinion transmitted to the Court pursuant to Economic and Social Council decision 1998/297 of 5 August 1998, Difference Relating to Immunity from Legal Process of a Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights (Request and Order) [ILIB 8/31 - 9/4 1998]
ICJ: Fisheries Jurisdiction Case (Spain v. Canada) Jurisdiction of the Court (Dec. 4, 1998) [ILIB 11/30 - 12/4 1998]
ICTY: Prosecutor v. Delalic, Mucic, Delic, and Landzo, IT-96-21-T (Nov. 16, 1998) [ILIB 11/30 - 12/4 1998]
ICTY: Prosecutor v. Furundzija, IT-95-17/1-T (Dec. 10, 1998) [ILIB 12/21 - 12/25 1998]
South Africa Constitutional Court: National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality v. Minister of Justice, CCT 11/98 (Oct. 9, 1998) [ILIB 10/12 - 10/16 1998]
South Africa, High Court (Transvaal Provincial Division): Christian Lawyers Association of SA v. The Minister of Health, No. 97/16291 (July 10, 1998) [ILIB 8/24 - 8/28 1998]
U.K. House of Lords: Regina v. Bartle and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis, Ex parte Pinochet [ILIB 11/16 - 11/27 1998]
U.K. High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division: In re: Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, CO/4074/98, CO/4083/98 (Oct. 28, 1998) [ILIB 10/26 - 11/6 1998]
U.S. Second Circuit: Ashanga v. Texaco Inc., Nos. 97-9102(L), -9104(CON), -9108(CON) (2d Cir. Oct. 5, 1998) [ILIB 10/5 - 10/9 1998]
U.S. Second Circuit: Itar-Tass Russian v. Russian Kurier, Inc., No. 97-7498 (2d Cir. Aug. 27, 1998) [ILIB 8/31 - 9/4 1998]
U.S. Second Circuit: Rein v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, 98-7467 (Dec. 15, 1998) [ILIB 12/21 - 12/25 1998]
U.S. Third Circuit: United States v. Kole, No. 96-5457 (Dec. 29, 1998) [ILIB 12/28/1998 - 1/8/1999]
U.S. Ninth Circuit: In re Brennan, No. 97-10387 (Nov. 17, 1998) [ILIB 11/30 - 12/4 1998]
U.S. Ninth Circuit: Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corp. v. Simon (In re Simon), No. 96-16859 (9th Cir. Aug. 27, 1998) [ILIB 9/28 - 10/2 1998]
U.S. Eleventh Circuit: MCC-Marble Ceramic Center, Inc. v. Ceramica Nuova D'Agostino, S.P.A., No. 97-4250 (11th Cir. June 29, 1998) [ILIB 8/24 - 8/28 1998]
U.S. D.C. Circuit: Atkinson v. Inter-American Development Bank, No. 97-7181a (D.C. Cir. Oct. 9, 1998) [ILIB 10/5 - 10/9 1998]
U.S. District Court for Massachusetts: National Foreign Trade Council v. Baker, No. 97-12042 (D. Mass. Nov. 4, 1998) [ILIB 11/16 - 11/27 1998]
U.S. District Court for Massachusetts: United States v. Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd., Order (D. Mass., July 28, 1998) [ILIB 9/14 - 9/25 1998]
WTO Appellate Body Report: United States - Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products, WTO Doc. WT/DS58/AB/R (Oct. 8, 1998) [ILIB 10/12 - 10/16 1998]
WTO Panel Report: Japan - Measures Affecting Agricultural Products, WT/DS76/R (Oct. 27, 1998) [ILIB 11/8 - 11/13 1998]
WTO: Indonesia - Certain Measures Affecting the Automobile Industry, Arbitration under Article 21.3(c) of the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes, WT/DS54/15 (Dec. 17, 1998) [ILIB 12/7 - 12/11 1998]
EC: Council Regulation (EC) No. 1154/98 of 25 May 1998 applying the special incentive arrangements concerning labour rights and environmental protection provided for in Articles 7 and 8 of Regulations (EC) No. 3281/94 and (EC) No. 156 applying multiannual schemes of generalised tariff preferences in respect of certain industrial and agricultural products originating in developing countries, 1998 O.J. (L 160) 1 [ILIB 8/24 - 8/28 1998]
Turkey: Regulation on Apprehension, Police Custody and Interrogation, approved August 21, 1998 [ILIB 11/8 - 11/13 1998]
U.K.: Human Rights Act 1998 [ILIB 12/14 - 12/18 1998]
U.K.: Government of Wales Act 1998 (July 31, 1998) [ILIB 12/28/1998 - 1/8/1999]
U.S.: International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 [ILIB 10/12 - 10/16 1998]
U.S.: International Anti-Bribery and Fair Competition Act of 1998, P.L. 105-366 [ILIB 11/8 - 11/13 1998]
U.S.: Executive Order on Implementation of Human Rights Treaties [ILIB 12/14 - 12/18 1998]
Amnesty International: Rights for All - Amnesty International's campaign on the USA [ILIB 10/5 - 10/9 1998]
ASEAN: Hanoi Declaration of 1998 (Dec. 16, 1998) [ILIB 12/14 - 12/18 1998]
ASEAN: Hanoi Plan of Action [ILIB 12/14 - 12/18 1998]
Declaration of the Bosnia Peace Implementation Council with Annex (Dec. 16, 1998) [ILIB 12/28/1998 - 1/8/1999]
ECHR: Rules of Court (Nov. 4, 1998) [ILIB 11/16 - 11/27 1998]
G-7: Declaration of the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the G-7 Countries, Oct. 30, 1998 [ILIB 10/26 - 11/6 1998]
ICJ: Response of the International Court of Justice to General Assembly Resolution 52/161 of 15 December 1997 [ILIB 9/7 - 9/11 1998]
ICTY: Report by Judge McDonald to the Security Council [ILIB 12/7 - 12/11 1998]
ILO: Report of the Commission of Inquiry appointed under Article 26 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization to examine the observance by Myanmar of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), Geneva, July 2, 1998 [ILIB 10/19 - 10/23 1998]
North Atlantic Council: Statement on Kosovo (Dec. 8, 1998) [ILIB 12/7 - 12/11 1998]
OECD Ministerial Conference: OECD Action Plan for Electronic Commerce, OECD Doc. SG/EC(98)/REV5 (Oct. 7, 1998) [ILIB 10/19 - 10/23 1998]
U.N. General Assembly: Resolution 53/10 (Nov. 3, 1998) (on economic sanctions) [ILIB 11/30 - 12/4 1998]
U.N. Security Council: Resolution 1199 (Sept. 23, 1998) (on Kosovo) [ILIB 10/12 - 10/16 1998]
U.N. Security Council: Resolution 1205 (Nov. 5, 1998) (on Iraq) [ILIB 11/8 - 11/13 1998]
U.N. Security Council: Resolution 1207 (Nov. 17, 1998) (on FRY) [ILIB 11/16 - 11/27 1998]
U.N. Security Council: Resolution 1214 (Dec. 8, 1998) (on Afghanistan) [ILIB 12/14 - 12/18 1998]
U.N. Security Council: Resolution 1219 (Dec. 31, 1998) (on Angola) [ILIB 12/28/1998 - 1/8/1999]
Statement by the President of the Security Council, U.N. Doc. S/PRST/1998/37 (Dec. 23,
1998) (on Angola) [ILIB 12/28/1998 - 1/8/1999]
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs: Report on Labor Practices in Burma, Sept. 25, 1998 [ILIB 10/19 - 10/23 1998]
U.S.-EC: High Level Bilateral Consultations on the Environment - Final Communique, Oct. 26, 1998 [ILIB 11/8 - 11/13 1998]
WTO: Working Group on Transparency in Government Procurement - Report (1998) to the General Council, WT/WGTGP/2 (Nov. 17, 1998) [ILIB 12/21 - 12/25 1998]
ASIL Insight "The Pinochet Arrest and Possible Extradition to Spain" by Professor Fredric L. Kirgis placed on ASIL Web site [ILIB 10/19 - 10/23 1998]
ASIL Interest Group on Dispute Resolution holds Conference on International Commercial Dispute Resolution at Southern Methodist Law School [ILIB 10/19 - 10/26 1998]
ASIL Wildlife Law Interest Group announces Fourth International Wildlife Law Conference [ILIB 12/7 - 12/11 1998]
European Court of Human Rights initiates structural reforms [ILIB 10/26 - 11/6 1998]
House of Lords Pinochet decision set aside [ILIB 12/14 - 12/18 1998]
ICJ: Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia): Request for an additional Judgment [ILIB 9/7 - 9/11 1998]
ICTY releases decision in Prosecutor v. Delalic, Mucic, Delic, and Landzo [ILIB 11/16 - 11/27 1998]
ILIB Special Report on Progress toward Hague Jurisdiction and Judgments Convention [ILIB 12/7 - 12/11 1998]
Latvia and the Kyrghyz Republic successfully conclude WTO accession negotiations [ILIB 10/12 - 10/16 1998]
OAS Resolution on Year 2000 Conversion Problem [ILIB 9/14 - 9/25 1998]
OECD completes Ministerial Conference on Electronic Commerce [ILIB 10/12 - 10/16 1998]
RIZ to host conference on Non-Judicial Dispute Settlement in International Financial Transactions [ILIB 12/21 - 12/25 1998]
Senegal bans female genital mutilation [ILIB 12/21 - 12/25 1998]
South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission issues final Report [ILIB 10/26 - 11/6 1998]
Sweden amends intellectual property laws [ILIB 11/30 - 12/4 1998]
United States signs Kyoto Protocol [ILIB 11/8 - 11/13 1998]
U.S.-Ireland: Joint Communique on Electronic Commerce [ILIB 9/14 - 9/25 1998]
U.S. Trade Representative announces list of products subject to offsetting tariffs in banana dispute with EU [ILIB 12/21 - 12/25 1998]
ASIL Executive Committee solicits comments about continuing ILIB [ILIB 12/14 - 12/18 1998; ILIB 12/21 - 12/15 1998]
Hague Conference on Private International Law introduces Web site [ILIB 10/5 - 10/9 1998]
ICTY web address for The Prosecutor v. Akayesu noted [ILIB 9/7 - 9/11 1998]
ILIB archived on ASIL Web site [ILIB 9/14 - 9/25 1998]
ILM / ILIB interns Chad Bierman and Carlos Calderin recognized [ILIB 11/16 - 11/27 1998]
ILIB introduction and subscription information [ILIB 8/31 - 9/4 1998]
Message from ASIL President Thomas M. Franck [ILIB 8/24 - 8/28 1998]
Should ILIB be continued? [ILIB 12/7 - 12/11 1998]