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The United States Should Withdraw Its Reservations To The Genocide Convention: A Response To Professor Paust's Proposal, Maria Frankowska
The United States Should Withdraw Its Reservations To The Genocide Convention: A Response To Professor Paust's Proposal, Maria Frankowska
Michigan Journal of International Law
A reiteration of Professor Paust's views on the topic, followed by an alternative course of action, and the international and domestic aspects of the withdrawal process.
Human Rights V. Extradition: The Soering Case, Stephan Breitenmoser, Gunter E. Wilms
Human Rights V. Extradition: The Soering Case, Stephan Breitenmoser, Gunter E. Wilms
Michigan Journal of International Law
The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms is widely regarded as the most dynamic and effective of the various international human rights instruments. Its impact on the judiciary of the twenty-three Western European Member States, as well as its pace-setting role for other international mechanisms for the protection of human rights, has recently been confirmed by the unanimous judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Soering v. United Kingdom. In its judgment delivered on July 7, 1989, the Court held that the United Kingdom would act in violation of article 3 of …
Coherence And The European Court Of Human Rights: The Adjudicative Background To The Soering Case, Colin Warbrick
Coherence And The European Court Of Human Rights: The Adjudicative Background To The Soering Case, Colin Warbrick
Michigan Journal of International Law
On January 1, 1990, the Eighth Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights came into force. This Protocol makes some amendments to the structure and procedure set out in the Convention itself. The need for reform was created by the increasing workload of the institutions, which had reached such a level that the backlog of applications before the Commission would have continued to increase at a greater rate than the Commission's capacity to dispose of them. There are several reasons for this overwhelming burden. The acceptances by States of the right of individual application under article 25 have been …