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Incorporating UN General Assembly Declaratory Texts into Domestic Law? Last week in Canada, with federal MPs returning to Parliament amidst the continuation of countrywide protests by indigenous peoples, an opposition MP introduced a private member’s bill (Bill C-469) to require the Canadian government to ensure that all federal laws are …

French Military Intervention in Mali: It’s Legal but… Why? Part II: Consent and UNSC Authorisation In the First Part of this comment we have seen that reference to article 51 of the UN Chapter in order to justify Operation Serval, is problematic. We will now discuss the two other legal …

Philippines Initiates Arbitration Against China over South China Seas Dispute Today, the Philippines has initiated arbitral proceedings against China with regard to China’s claims over much of the South China seas. Those Chinese claims have led to serious disputes between China and several of its neighbours in East Asia with those disputes …

Philippines Initiates Arbitration Against China over South China Seas Dispute Today, the Philippines has initiated arbitral proceedings against China with regard to China’s claims over much of the South China seas. Those Chinese claims have led to serious disputes between China and several of its neighbours in East Asia with those disputes …

Does General Assembly Resolution 67/19 Have Any Implications for the Legal Status of Palestine? Jure Vidmar is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law, and Research Fellow at St Johns College, University of Oxford. He has written widely on the process of State creation (see SSRN page here), including: …

Who Do I Call If I Want to Give Europe a Nobel Prize? Mauro Gatti is a PhD candidate in EU law at the University of Bologna and the University of Strasbourg. His article, “‘External representation of the European Union in the conclusion of international agreement” (with Pietro Manzini) recently appeared …

May the UK Terminate the Diplomatic Status of Ecuador’s Embassy? Ecuador has announced that it is granting asylum to Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, who has taken refuge in the Ecuardor’s embassy in London. Assange sought refuge in the Embassy after the UK Supreme Court ruled a few weeks ago that …

Award of Compensation by International Tribunals in Inter-State Cases: ICJ Decision in the Diallo Case This week, the International Court of Justice decided that the Democratic Republic of Congo is obliged to pay $95,000 to the Republic of Guinea for material and non-material injury arising out of the DRC’s violations …

Diplomatic Assurances, Torture and Extradition: The Case of Othman (Abu Qatada) v. the United Kingdom Conor McCarthy is Visiting Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. The European Court of Human Rights has handed down its long-awaited judgment in the case of Othman (Abu Qatada) v. the …

  INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE REPORTS OF JUDGMENTS, ADVISORY OPINIONS AND ORDERS REQUEST FOR INTERPRETATION OF THE JUDGMENT OF NOVEMBER 20th, 1950, IN THE ASYLUM CASE (COLOMBIA/PERU) JUDGMENT OF NOVEMBER 27th, 1950    Present: President BASDEVANT ; Vice-President GUERRERO ; Judges ALVAREZ, HACKWORTH, WINIARSKI, DE VISSCHER, Sir Arnold MCNAIR, KLAESTAD, …

ASOCIACION de RECLAMANTES v. UNITED MEXICAN STATES     735 F.2d 1517 (1984)    ASOCIACION de RECLAMANTES, et al., Appellants, v. The UNITED MEXICAN STATES.  No. 83-1596.    United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.    Argued March 23, 1984. Decided June 5, 1984.  Vicki C. Jackson, Washington, …

U.S. Supreme Court Arkansas v. Tennessee, 246 U.S. 158 (1918) Arkansas v. Tennessee No. 4, Original Argued October 9, 1917 Decided March 4, 1918 246 U.S. 158 I N EQUITY Syllabus When two states of the Union are separated by a navigable stream, their boundary being described as “a line …