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  1. The Obligation of the Coalition Provisional Authority to Protect Iraq's Cultural Heritage

    ... member states that presently occupy Iraq--bears a special responsibility in retrieving stolen cultural objects, preserving and restoring ... property shall not be accepted for the List unless the State Party provides adequate national legal protection and management ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  2. Venezuela's Denunciation of the American Convention on Human Rights

    ... or to “‘declare’ or ‘rule’ on the responsibility of a State.” [8] Venezuela underscored its view that the Court is biased ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  3. Supreme Court Preview: The Samantar Case and the Immunity of Foreign Government Officials

    ... by subordinates under his authority, and that he bears responsibility for the abuses they committed. Samantar moved to dismiss, ... own right or as "agencies or instrumentalities of a foreign state," and in any event does not apply to former officials. [6] It ...

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  4. The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 Consolidates Seafarers' Labour Instruments

    ... regulation of recruitment and placement services and flag State inspection systems. The new Convention has been described by the ... this can create and the issue of ensuring flag State responsibility have been topics of concern for this sector since the 1950s. ...

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  5. 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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  6. 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 ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  7. 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 ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  8. 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 Court’s effort to shift the responsibility for managing international regulatory conflicts from the ...

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  9. German Constitutional Court Rules on Necessity in Argentine Bondholder Case

    ... of general international law can be ascertained entitling a State, vis-à-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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  10. 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 ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am