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Peace Vs. Accountability In Bosnia, Anthony D'Amato Jan 1994

Peace Vs. Accountability In Bosnia, Anthony D'Amato

Faculty Working Papers

Hovering over the peace negotiations in progress in former Yugoslavia is the international community's determination to bring to trial as war criminals those political and military leaders responsible for atrocities in Bosnia. The question clearly presented is that, however desirable the idea of war crimes accountability might appear in the abstract, pursuing the goal of a war crimes tribunal may simply result in prolonging a war of civilian atrocities. Is it not conceivable that, in return for securing a peace treaty, the UN officials may have extended some assurance to the leaders in former Yugoslavia that, one way or another, …

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Fsia Retroactivity Subsequent To The Issuance Of The Tate Letter: A Proposed Solution To The Confusion, Michael E. Jansen Jan 1989

Fsia Retroactivity Subsequent To The Issuance Of The Tate Letter: A Proposed Solution To The Confusion, Michael E. Jansen

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Three recently decided cases discuss the retroactive application of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 to pre-1952 claims—Carl Marks & Co. v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Jackson v. People's Republic of China, and Slade v. United States of Mexico. These cases have conclusively established that the FSIA is not to be applied retroactively to pre-1952 events—i.e., to claims arising prior to the issuance of the Tate Letter. They do not resolve the issue of retroactive application of the FSIA to post-1952 events, however, and this issue is currently engulfed in confusion. This Comment attempts to resolve this confusion …

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Court Of First Instance Of The European Communities, Gordon Slynn Jan 1989

Court Of First Instance Of The European Communities, Gordon Slynn

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

The Court of Justice of the European Communities ("Court of Justice") deals with questions arising under the Treaties establishing the European Economic, the European Coal and Steel, and the European Atomic Energy Communities (collectively the "Treaties"). In 1962, its law reports ran to 512 pages, already double the number in 1959. In 1985, they comprised 4,050 pages. In 1962, 62 cases were brought before the Court; in 1985, the number had risen to 433. Not surprisingly cases coming before the Court took longer to resolve -- the period from lodging the action to judgment had slipped from nine months to …

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Can/Should Computers Replace Judges?, Anthony D'Amato Jan 1977

Can/Should Computers Replace Judges?, Anthony D'Amato

Faculty Working Papers

Speculates concerning judicial decision-making to test, at least theoretically, what some of the implications of jurisprudential advances might be. Proposes as the means of making this test a consideration of whether a computer may be so programmed as to replace the judicial function of judges.

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Manifest Intent And The Generation By Treaty Of Customary Rules Of International Law, Anthony D'Amato Jan 1970

Manifest Intent And The Generation By Treaty Of Customary Rules Of International Law, Anthony D'Amato

Faculty Working Papers

I shall argue in this essay that the World Court used a method which might be called the rule of manifest intent in the North Sea Continental Shelf Cases, that this method differs from a more traditional approach found in the writings of publicists, and that this new method accords well with the growing need to objectify and place upon a scientific basis the methodology by which one may determine what in fact are the rules of customary law.

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War Crimes And Vietnam: The "Nuremberg Defense" And The Military Service Resister, Anthony D'Amato, Harvey . L. Gould, Larry D. Woods Jan 1969

War Crimes And Vietnam: The "Nuremberg Defense" And The Military Service Resister, Anthony D'Amato, Harvey . L. Gould, Larry D. Woods

Faculty Working Papers

We have attempted to establish first that the international laws of warfare are part of American law, and have argued that these laws, when taken as prohibitions of specific methods of waging war, are a practical and effective means of controlling unnecessary suffering and destruction. Second, we have analyzed these laws as they apply to treatment of prisoners of war, aerial bombardment of nonmilitary targets, and chemical and biological warfare, and have marshalled a portion of the available evidence that American forces commit war crimes in Vietnam. Third, we have discussed the defenses of tu quoque, reprisal, military necessity, superior …

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