American Journal of International Law 1997 - Abstracts

American Journal of International Law 1997
TitleSubjectAuthors
1996 amendments to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act with respect to terrorist activities.LawLeigh, Monroe
Child labor, trade and investment: Toward the harmonization of international law.LawDiller, Janelle M., Levy, David A.
Dismissal of request by World Health Organization for advisory opinion on legality of nuclear weapons - relationship between United Nations and specialized agencies - questions concerning use of force and disarmament within exclusive competence of United Nations.LawBekker, Peter H.F.
Dismissal of U.S. preliminary objection to ICJ jurisdiction based on compromissory clause in bilateral commerce treaty between Iran and United States - use of force matters not per se excluded from reach of 1955 Treaty - meaning of "freedom of commerce." (International Court of Justice)LawBekker, Peter H.F.
Due process and witness anonymity. (response to Monroe Leigh, American Journal of International Law, vol. 90, p. 235, April 1996)LawChinkin, Christine M.
Environmental security and freshwater resources: ecosystem regime building.LawToope, Stephen J., Brunnee, Jutta
European Communities - exercise of membership rights in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization - legal effect of agreements between institutions of the Communities - obligation to cooperate.LawRudolf, Beate
European Communities - implementation of UN sanctions - measures of foreign and security policy and common commercial policy - scope of common commercial policy - export of medical goods to Republics of Serbia and Montenegro - necessity of national measures under public international law.LawKokott, Juliane, Conrads, Meike
European Community law - legal status of international agreements within the Community legal order - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade - Lome Conventions.LawMontana i Mora, Miguel
European Convention on Human Rights - continuing violation - effective control exercised by Turkey over territory of Northern Cyprus - attribution of human rights violations to controlling power - effect of nonrecognition as a state.LawRudolf, Beate
European Convention on Human Rights - refugees - international zones at airports - deprivation of liberty. (France)LawKokott, Juliane
Extradition - extradition to Hong Kong from United Kingdom for alleged bribery by Hong Kong citizen - effect of Hong Kong's reversion to China - effect of death penalty under Chinese law - extradition as a limitation on freedom of movement - enforcement of European Community law and European Human Rights Convention in UK courts.LawWilets, James D.
Extradition statute - constitutional law - separation of powers - appointments clause.LawSemmelman, Jacques
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act - promissory notes under commercial activity exception - need for actual authority of agent of foreign state under commercial activity exception - burdens of production and proof under the Act.LawMurray, Daniel E.
Forum shopping, antisuit injunctions, negative declarations, and related tools of international litigation.(Editorial)LawLowenfeld, Andreas F.
German law of political asylum - interpretation and constitutionality of Article 16a of the German Constitution and Statute Regarding the Procedure of Granting Asylum - Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees - European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.LawFassbender, Bardo
Humanitarian law - 1949 Geneva Conventions - grave breaches - role of Serbia in conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.LawScharf, Michael P.
Immigration - Refugee Act of 1980 - resistance to female circumcision as grounds for political asylum in the United States.LawMalone, Linda A., Wood, Gillian
Important improvements in the functioning of the principal organs of the United Nations that can be made without Charter revision.(Editorial)LawSohn, Louis B.
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia - humanitarian law - 1949 Geneva Conventions - laws or customs of war - role of Croatia in the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.LawSwaak-Goldman, Olivia
International trade and protection of the environment: the continuing search for reconciliation.LawSchoenbaum, Thomas J.
Is personal freedom a Western value?LawFranck, Thomas M.
Jurisprudence of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission: Iran claims.LawBederman, David J., Lillich, Richard B.
Nuclear weapons, international law and the world court: a historic encounter. (International Court of Justice)LawFalk, Richard A.
Preliminary objections of Yugoslavia to jurisdiction of ICJ and admissibility of Application of Bosnia-Herzegovina - jurisdiction solely on basis of Article IX of 1948 Genocide Convention - rights and obligations erga omnes under Genocide Convention not territorially limited. (International Court of Justice)LawBekker, Peter H.F., Szasz, Paul C.
Recent practice of the Inspection Panel of the World Bank.LawBissell, Richard E.
Recognition and enforcement of state contract awards in the United States: a restatement.LawDelaume, Georges R.
Request by UN General Assembly for advisory opinion on legality of nuclear weapons - UN Charter and law of armed conflict most directly applicable law - absence of conventional or customary rule authorizing or prohibiting threat or use of nuclear weapons - threat or use of nuclear weapons generally contrary to law applicable in armed conflict.LawBekker, Peter H.F., Szasz, Paul C.
Rwandan genocide and the international law of radio jamming.LawMetzl, Jamie
South Africa - Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act of 1995 - amnesty - truth commissions - constitutional interpretation - human rights.LawWilhelm, Daniel F.
Switzerland, international law and World War II.LawVagts, Detlev F.
The 1996 judicial activity of the International Court of Justice.LawBekker, Peter H.F.
The FCPA in Russia and other former Communist countries. (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act)LawDugan, Christopher F., Lechtman, Vladimir
The fifty-second session of the UN Commission on Human Rights.LawDennis, Michael J.
The first two sessions of the UN Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court.LawHall, Christopher Keith
The Forty-Eighth Session of the International Law Commission.LawRosenstock, Robert
The Helms-Burton Act: exercising the presidential option.LawVagts, Detlev F., Meron, Theodor
The opinions of the International Court of Justice on the threat or use of nuclear weapons.LawMatheson, Michael J.
The revision of the Mines Protocol. (United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons)LawMatheson, Michael J.
The United Nations starts work on a watercourses convention.LawCrook, John R., McCaffrey, Stephen C.
The work of the Sixth Committee at the fifty-first session of the UN General Assembly.LawMorris, Virginia, Bourloyannis-Vrailas, M.-Christiane
The WTO dispute settlement understanding - misunderstanding on the nature of legal obligation.LawJackson, John H.
Toward world antitrust and market access.LawFox, Eleanor M.
Trade-environment negotiations in the EU, NAFTA, and WTO: regional trajectories of rule development. (World Trade Organization)LawSteinberg, Richard H.
Treaties - extradition treaty between United States and United Kingdom - extradition to Hong Kong for alleged bribery by Hong Kong citizen - effect of Hong Kong's reversion to China and possible application of Chinese law providing for execution after July 1, 1997 - role of U.S. judiciary in extradition process.LawWilets, James D.
U.S.-Italy extradition treaty - challenge regarding constitutionality - protection of fundamental human rights, including right to life - prohibition of death penalty in requested party's constitution - inadmissibility of assurances that death penalty shall not be imposed or enforced.LawBianchi, Andrea
Witness anonymity is inconsistent with due process. (response to Christine M. Chinkin in this issue, p.75)LawLeigh, Monroe
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