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University of Michigan Law School

2014

Customary law

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The International Law Commission Reinvents Itself?, Kristina Daugirdas Jul 2014

The International Law Commission Reinvents Itself?, Kristina Daugirdas

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For most of its history, the International Law Commission has been in the business of producing draft articles. Yet, Sean Murphy’s coverage of the Commission’s sixty-fifth session reveals that the Commission has decisively turned away from this format. As Jacob Katz Cogan’s earlier post observes, the Commission is demonstrating a new-found preference for outputs that are explicitly non-binding and betray no aspiration to form the basis for multilateral treaties. The Commission’s embrace of alternative formats is a promising response to some of the risks and criticisms associated with producing draft articles. But it is also an incomplete response. To ensure …


The Law Of Diplomatic Asylum–A Contextual Approach, Paul Behrens Mar 2014

The Law Of Diplomatic Asylum–A Contextual Approach, Paul Behrens

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Article will deal with the conduct of diplomatic missions and their agents; it will primarily address the question of whether they are entitled to grant asylum on diplomatic premises. That is not the same as the question whether a refugee may be entitled to asylum on mission premises— the individual asylum seeker may be subject to a different set of norms.