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  1. Hassan v. United Kingdom: A New Approach to Security Detention in Armed Conflict?

    ... The Grand Chamber found that “the Netherlands assumed responsibility for providing security in that area, to the exclusion of other ... military conferred extraterritorial jurisdiction on the state parties sufficient to bring activities overseas under the scrutiny of the ...

    04/02/2015 - 3:13pm

  2. The ICC and Palestinian Consent

    ... of this Insight , Palestine is neither a signatory nor a state party to the International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty.  Nonetheless, on ... by international law, and thus would give rise to state responsibility upon breach, whether it constitutes a war crime is an ...

    03/20/2015 - 2:36pm

  3. Striking ISIL: Aspects of the Law on the Use of Force

    ... States to lead international efforts to strike Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) sites. The strikes would end the constant ... The Iraqi government remained the principal agent of the responsibility to protect its population from such outrages. Indeed, the SC ...

    03/11/2015 - 4:26pm

  4. Cyber Operations by Private Actors in the Ukraine-Russia Conflict: From Cyber War to Cyber Security

    ... the pro-Russian hacker group CyberBerkut has assumed responsibility for cyber operations against NATO, the vote counting system for ... public international law rules and principles regarding state responsibility to cyber operations. Implicit attribution of cyber ...

    01/07/2015 - 10:54am

  5. The ASIL Centennial Annual Meeting Adopts a Resolution on the Use of Armed Force and the Treatment of Detainees

    ... to the regulation of the use of armed force. For example, a state acting in lawful self-defense must use only such force as is necessary to ... agents, and to all combatant forces. The law of state responsibility provides the rules for determining when a state has committed a ...

    12/15/2014 - 11:03am

  6. Advisory Opinion of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea on “Responsibilities and Obligations of States Sponsoring Persons and Entities With Respect To Activities in the Area”

    ... exploitation activities are required to be sponsored by a State Party to the 1982 Convention. In applying for an exploration or ... Article 139(1) reads: States Parties shall have the responsibility to ensure that activities in the Area, whether carried out by ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  7. Hormone Ban in Dispute Again: The WTO Refuses to Reject Either the EC Ban or Canadian/US Trade Sanctions

    ... disputes. Suspension of concessions is an “abnormal state of affairs”, the Appellate Body found, and the suspending and implementing Members share responsibility to ensure that it is only temporary. When there is a dispute ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  8. Iran's Resumption of its Nuclear Program: Addendum

    ... XII says in part, "The Board shall call upon the recipient State or States to remedy forthwith any non-compliance [with a safeguards ... notify the Security Council, as the organ bearing the main responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security . . . ." ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  9. Belgian Jury to Decide Case Concerning Rwandan Genocide

    ... violations of international humanitarian law in another state. This is also the first trial under the Belgian law providing for ... of setting up an evacuation of Tutsis; he is charged with responsibility for the death of several Tutsis including a fellow professor and ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am

  10. The U.N. Security Council and the Crisis in Syria

    ... and China. [21] In line with typical Council decorum, no state mentioned Russia and China by name when expressing disappointment at the ... of the Security Council shows the limits of the ideal of a responsibility to protect (“R2P”).  There certainly have been some ...

    10/15/2014 - 11:50am