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International Law and the Report of the High-Level U.N. Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change
... or the threat of such an attack on a non-nuclear-weapon State." (¶ 122) Such a pledge would be no more than a statement of intent; ... "the emerging norm that there is a collective international responsibility to protect, exercisable by the Security Council authorizing ...
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Results of the Rome Conference for an International Criminal Court
... investigation. If, within one month of notification, such a state informs the Court that it is investigating the matter, the Prosecutor ... of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State with responsibility for the issue of a permanent international criminal court. He is ...
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Sustainable Fisheries and the Obligations of Flag and Coastal States: The Request by the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission for an ITLOS Advisory Opinion
... questions: What are the obligations of the flag State in cases where illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing ... Under the law of the sea, coastal States bear primary responsibility for the conservation and management of living resources within ...
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Morrison v. Nat’l Australia Bank Ltd.: The Supreme Court Rejects Extraterritoriality
... making untrue statements of material facts or omitting to state a material fact that is necessary to make a statement not misleading. ... one, in the Supreme Courtâs effort to shift the responsibility for managing international regulatory conflicts from the ...
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German Constitutional Court Rules on Necessity in Argentine Bondholder Case
... of general international law can be ascertained entitling a State, vis-Ã -vis private individuals, to suspend the performance of due ... v. Argentina , by contrast, exempted Argentina from State responsibility on virtually identical facts for a limited period of time. ...
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The World Court Rules that Israel's West Bank Barrier Violates International Law
... 19, 2003, had endorsed the "Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," the Court pointed out that ... 12(1) of the UN Charter [5] and that the Council's "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security" under ...
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo Requests the World Court to Order Belgium to Annul an Arrest Warrant issued against the Congo's Foreign Minister
... immunity of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of a sovereign State based on Article 41(2) of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic ... of a Government does not exempt a person from criminal responsibility under the Statute. It also provides that immunities that may ...
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European Court of Human Rights' Judgment on Expulsion of Asylum Seekers: M.S.S. v. Belgium & Greece
... based on a hierarchy of objective criteria, [6] which state is responsible for examining an asylum application lodged on their ... third-country national, even if such examination was not its responsibility under the criteria laid down in the Regulation. However, ...
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Colombia's Use of Force in Ecuador Against a Terrorist Organization: International Law and the Use of Force Against Non-State Actors
... [2] Colombia's use of force against a non-State actor located within the territory of another sovereign State joins ... [16] Id., para. 301. Uganda alleged Congolese responsibility for tolerating the rebel movements. Although, this argument was ...
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The Application of Regional Human Rights Law Beyond Regional Frontiers: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and US Activities in Iraq
... by US forces in Iraq. Although the United States is not a state party to the American Convention on Human Rights, the Commission ... that "it would be unconscionable to so interpret the responsibility under article 2 of the Covenant as to permit a State party to ...
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