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Nuclear Weapons And The World Court: The Icj's Advisory Opinion And Its Significance For U.S. Strategic Doctrine, Robert F. Turner Dec 1998

Nuclear Weapons And The World Court: The Icj's Advisory Opinion And Its Significance For U.S. Strategic Doctrine, Robert F. Turner

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Nongovernmental Organizations And International Humanitarian Law, Ved Nanda Sep 1998

Nongovernmental Organizations And International Humanitarian Law, Ved Nanda

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


An Optimist Looks At The Law Of War In The Twenty-First Century, Howard Levie Sep 1998

An Optimist Looks At The Law Of War In The Twenty-First Century, Howard Levie

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


The Development Of International Law With Respect To The Law Enforcement Roles Of Navies And Coast Guards In Peacetime, Ivan Shearer Sep 1998

The Development Of International Law With Respect To The Law Enforcement Roles Of Navies And Coast Guards In Peacetime, Ivan Shearer

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


The Development Of United Nations Mechanisms For The Protection And Promotion Of Human Rights, Elsa Stamatopoulou Jun 1998

The Development Of United Nations Mechanisms For The Protection And Promotion Of Human Rights, Elsa Stamatopoulou

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Across The Table At Pan Mun Jom, Howard Levie Feb 1998

Across The Table At Pan Mun Jom, Howard Levie

International Law Studies

First published in 38 Saint Louis University Magazine 10 (March 1965)


The Status Of Belligerent Personnel "Splashed" And Rescued By A Neutral In The Persian Gulf Area, Howard Levie Feb 1998

The Status Of Belligerent Personnel "Splashed" And Rescued By A Neutral In The Persian Gulf Area, Howard Levie

International Law Studies

This article was published in 31 Virginia Journal of lnternational Law 611 (1991)


Indigenous Peoples And International Law Issues, S. James Anaya Jan 1998

Indigenous Peoples And International Law Issues, S. James Anaya

Publications

No abstract provided.


Between Iraq And A Hard Place: The U.N. Compensation Commission And Its Treatment Of Gulf War Claims, Lea C. Owen Jan 1998

Between Iraq And A Hard Place: The U.N. Compensation Commission And Its Treatment Of Gulf War Claims, Lea C. Owen

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) was formed in 1991 to address claims against Iraq arising out of the Gulf War. In its seven years of operation, the UNCC has received 2.6 million claims, with an asserted value of more than $244 billion. It has processed 2.4 million of these claims, for a total of $6 billion, and it has paid to victims more than $730 million. Despite these accomplishments, the UNCC has much left to do, and its efforts have been burdened by Iraq's post-war refusal to meet its treaty obligations. The UNCC now faces waning political support from …


Force Without Law: Seeking A Legal Justification For The September 1996 U.S. Military Intervention In Iraq, Gavin A. Symes Jan 1998

Force Without Law: Seeking A Legal Justification For The September 1996 U.S. Military Intervention In Iraq, Gavin A. Symes

Michigan Journal of International Law

This note concludes that none of the various legal arguments offered in support of the September 1996 military intervention against Iraq adequately justifies U.S. actions under international law and that in fact international law was never a real concern in planning, implementing, or even justifying the intervention. Part I relates the general history of the "Kurdish problem" and the particulars of the incident under scrutiny. This Part then goes on to describe the aftermath of the intervention and its failure to achieve any of the stated goals of the United States. Part II addresses the general validity under international law …


Diplomatic Impunity: Time For A Change?, Phil Felice Jan 1998

Diplomatic Impunity: Time For A Change?, Phil Felice

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Slow Down: New Interventionism, Yubo Song Jan 1998

Slow Down: New Interventionism, Yubo Song

Michigan Journal of International Law

Review of The New Interventionism 1991-1994: United Nations Experience in Cambodia, Former Yugoslavia and Somalia (James Mayall ed.)


The Timor Gap: Who Decides Who Is In Control, Brandi J. Pummell Jan 1998

The Timor Gap: Who Decides Who Is In Control, Brandi J. Pummell

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Defining And Punishing Abroad: Constitutional Limits On The Extraterritorial Reach Of The Offenses Clause Note, Zephyr Teachout Jan 1998

Defining And Punishing Abroad: Constitutional Limits On The Extraterritorial Reach Of The Offenses Clause Note, Zephyr Teachout

Faculty Scholarship

The Offenses Clause of the United States Constitution gives Congress the authority to "define and punish... Offences against the Law of Nations." This Note considers whether Congress must conform to the jurisdictional rules of customary international law when legislating pursuant to the Offenses Clause.