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International Extradition: A Summary Of The Contemporary American Practice And A Proposed Formula, M. Bassiouni Dec 1968

International Extradition: A Summary Of The Contemporary American Practice And A Proposed Formula, M. Bassiouni

M. Cherif Bassiouni

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Treaty And Constitution. A Comparative Analysis Of An Uneasy Relationship, Theodor Jr Schilling Jan 1968

Treaty And Constitution. A Comparative Analysis Of An Uneasy Relationship, Theodor Jr Schilling

Theodor JR Schilling

Constitutions may be reversed by revolution. Treaty-constitutions may also be terminated by mutual consent of the contracting parties. A secession and a unilateral denunciation are, as a rule, not permissible under international law but will be recognized if effective. The only possibility to prevent a secession is to take away the social substratum of a secession i.e. to merge the peoples of the state from which the secession would take place. Such a merger allows the people, as constituent power, to adopt the treaty-constitution as its own. Such an adoption may be made in the forms of the creation of …


On The Linguistic Design Of Multinational Courts—The French Capture, Mathilde Cohen Dec 19

On The Linguistic Design Of Multinational Courts—The French Capture, Mathilde Cohen

Mathilde Cohen

This Article discusses the importance of language in the institutional design of European and international courts, which I refer to as “linguistic design.”  What is at stake in the choice a court’s official or working language? Picking a language has far-reaching consequences on a court’s composition and internal organizational culture, possibly going as far as influencing the substantive law produced.  This is the case because language choices impact the screening of the staff and the manufacture of judicial opinions.  Linguistic design imposes costs on non-native speakers forced to use a second (or third) language and confers a set of advantages …