Search

Search results

  1. Samantar v. Yousuf: Foreign Official Immunity Under Common Law

    ... characterized as agencies or instrumentalities of the state and thus within the express purview of the FSIA. [5] As a ... war crimes, or crimes against humanity when his or her responsibility is based only on actions taken in an official governmental ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  2. German Criminal Complaint Against Donald Rumsfeld and Others

    ... Personal immunity offers protection to heads of State and certain high-ranking State officers from foreign prosecution while ... the U.S. likely will contend that the State did not abdicate responsibility because the Department of Defense conducted twelve substantial ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  3. Iran, the IAEA and the UN

    ... enforcement action.   U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and Nonproliferation John Bolton recently argued that ... notify the Security Council, as the organ bearing the main responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security." He ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  4. International Court of Justice Upholds its Jurisdiction in Case Brought by Cameroon Against Nigeria

    ... without special agreement, in relation to any other state accepting the same obligation, the Court's jurisdiction in all legal ... a judicial determination that Nigeria bears international responsibility for alleged frontier incursions, because the material submitted ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  5. Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum: Another Round in the Fight Over Corporate Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute

    ... norms. In March 2005, Unocal Corporation settled ATS and state law claims that had been brought against it and two of its senior ... its unremitting emphasis on the fact that “the moral responsibility for a crime so heinous and unbounded as to rise to the level of ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  6. Spanish Supreme Court Affirms Conviction of Argentine Former Naval Officer for Crimes Against Humanity

    ... quite extraordinary for the Supreme Court to find criminal responsibility for crimes against humanity in customary international law ... affirmed the reasoning of the Audiencia trial chamber on state terrorism. [25] On sentencing, it determined that later-adopted ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  7. Israel's Targeted Killings of Hamas Leaders

    ... Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any ... within the meaning of Article 51 is an armed attack from a state.  Hamas is not a state.  It cannot even be argued to constitute a ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  8. The Right to Participate in the Debates of the Security Council

    The Security Council bears the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. In the ... Under Article 32, if either a non-member of the Council or a state not member of the UN is party to a dispute under consideration by the ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  9. Mauritius Brings UNCLOS Arbitration Against The United Kingdom Over The Chagos Archipelago

    ... in the first instance; and (ii) even if it is the coastal state, in establishing the MPA, the United Kingdom breached obligations under ... on the applicable law.  As a colony, Mauritius lacked full responsibility for its internal affairs and foreign relations and thus may not ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  10. Legality of Veto to NATO Accession: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Sues Greece before the ICJ

    ... the General Assembly to imply the recognition of the new State. After a first escalation in 1994, which led to embargo measures by ... [24] International Law Commission, Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, UN Doc. A/56/10 ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am