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International Law At The Crossroads, Sompong Sucharitkul
International Law At The Crossroads, Sompong Sucharitkul
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Appropriately enough, the current session is entitled "International Law at the Crossroads". As States are governed by international law, without exception, every precaution should be taken before the next move is to be made for the law to go ahead or forward at this juncture after having carefully looked to the left and to the right. The law could indeed be moving straight forward, continuing on the same path at the same pace it has been taking. Alternatively, it could take a tum, and there are more than one turning, to the left or to the right. Finally, international law …
Sosa V. Alvarez-Machain - Restricting Access To Us Courts Under The Federal Tort Claims Act And The Alien Tort Statute: Reversing The Trend, Laura A. Cisneros
Sosa V. Alvarez-Machain - Restricting Access To Us Courts Under The Federal Tort Claims Act And The Alien Tort Statute: Reversing The Trend, Laura A. Cisneros
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To function with adequate predictability and efficiency, the international community must maintain orderly relations among its members. This necessarily requires that members develop international norms of behavior and accept a certain loss of their otherwise exclusive sovereignty. Nowhere has the enforcement of international norms been more pronounced than in the area of human rights. International human rights norms directly challenge conventional notions of exclusive state sovereignty and unilateral action. The United States has long been a motive force behind the international human rights movement, opening its federal courts to redress human rights violations committed domestically or abroad. Specifically, federal courts …