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Issues of International Law Interest before the 64th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
... completed its first reading of draft articles on the responsibility of international organizations. This first draft will be sent to ... of an IO toward an individual or any entity other than a state or IO. The Commission stated that while not covered within the scope of ...
10/15/2014 - 11:50am
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Argentina-Uruguay Environmental Border Dispute Before the World Court
... is inadmissible. Moreover, it is unclear what remedies a State party to an ICJ proceeding would have in the event that the other party ... [8] Breach of an international obligation entails a responsibility under international law to provide reparation (compensation) for ...
10/15/2014 - 11:50am
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Security Council Resolution 1483 on the Rebuilding of Iraq
... (the capacity to have the rights and obligations of a nation-state on the international scene). If the former, it is true that the people ... Resolution 1483, the Special Representative for Iraq has the responsibility to coordinate humanitarian and reconstruction assistance by U.N. ...
10/15/2014 - 11:50am
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China’s Declaration of an Air Defense Identification Zone in the East China Sea: Implications for Public International Law
... control beyond territorial airspace, allowing the declaring state to identify approaching aircrafts before they enter that airspace. Before ... The International Law Commission’s Articles on State Responsibility do permit a state to justify the violation of a treaty by ...
10/15/2014 - 11:50am
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Economic Cyber Espionage and International Law: Controversies Involving Government Acquisition of Trade Secrets through Cyber Technologies
... from a foreign government. Economic espionage involves a state's attempts to acquire covertly trade secrets held by foreign private ... espionage do not constitute wrongful acts triggering state responsibility under international law. Persons caught and accused of being ...
10/15/2014 - 11:50am
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 âthe moral responsibility for a crime so heinous and unbounded as to rise to the level of ...
10/15/2014 - 11:50am