Articles tagged as International Law
International law, also known as public international law and the law of nations, is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally accepted in relations between nations. International law is studied as a distinctive part of the general structure of international relations.
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
International Law
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea treaty,… ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
The Practices Regulating the Use of Force
International Law
Introduction Bloodshed is as endemic to man as any other instinct. It is not surprising therefore, that the long history of man is filled with … ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Public Policy as a Limit to the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral
International Law
‘… a very unruly horse, and when once you get astride it you never know where it will carry you.’ International commercial arbitration has … ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
The Issues of Intervention in Domestic Affairs
International Law
Abstract The issue of intervention in the domestic affairs of independent countries by other independent nation(s) is one of the biggest … ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Critically Evaluate Whether a CIF Contract Is a Contract for the Sale of Documents or a Sale of Goods Related in International Trade Law.
General Law
The CIF contract has been in use since at least the middle of the nineteenth century. As Lord Wright observed in 1940: “It is a type of contract which is more widely and more frequently in use than any other contract used for the purposes of sea-borne commerce… ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Dispute Settlement Mechanism WTO Developing Countries
International Law
This brief examines the WTO dispute settlement mechanism and developing countries. The brief starts by examining the WTO dispute settlement … ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
The International Labour Organisation and Labour Standards
International Law
Globalization has created many opportunities and benefits for many countries and its citizens, however at the same time, it has created problems … ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Recognition of States and Governments in International Law
International Law
Each state conducts its relations with other states on the basis of particular understandings of the legal status of those other states. In many in… ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Cases of the Serbian Loans
International Law
Where there is a conflict between international obligations and national law, the international rule prevails. Under UN General Assembly 1949 and… ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Impact of WTO on Globalization Trade Policy
International Law
World Trade Organization (WTO), found in 1995 and headquarters is in Geneva, has its clearly main purposes since its beginning that to promote … ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Portugal vs Australia
International Law
Portugal administered East Timor as a non-self-governing territory under United Nations Chapter XI. On 27th August 1975 ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
United Nations Peacekeeping Role in Rwanda
International Law
Rwanda is the most shameful example of recent failure by the international community (House of Commons, 1998/99: v). Under the peacekeeping … ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
The Importance of Incoterms for International Sales Contracts
International Law
In the last decades, for many companies, a strategic necessity results within the scope of globalization to use broader access to new markets and to take part in international business…. ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
WTO the Successor of GATT
International Law
The World Trade Organization (WTO), the successor of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), was formed in January 1995. It comprises of … ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Case for Reforming Security Councils
International Law
The United Nations Security Council (henceforth SC) is the executive arm of the United Nations (UN). Its role is to maintain peace and security … ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Violation of Human Rights
Human Rights Law
Diplomacy is defined as the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. Diplomatic personnel of various kinds perform their functions in receiving as well as in sending states. ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Criminal Extradition and International Diplomacy
International Law
The law of extradition governs the relations between two sovereign States over the question of whether or not a given person should… ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
International Law
International Law
Businesses increasingly turn to binding arbitration(1) as a mechanism for dispute resolution. ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
What is the Concept of Statelessness
International Law
INTRODUCTION The Universal Declaration of Human Rights clearly states that ‘everyone has the right to a nationality’ and that … ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
International Law
The impetus that initiated the efforts to address and regulate climate change was largely the 1987 discovery of the stratospheric Antarctic ozone… ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
IMF and Financial Crisis
Finance Law
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) came into formation in July 1944 when representatives of 45 countries met in Bretton Woods ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Nature and the Importance of Jus Cogens Rules
International Law
The rules of jus cogens (also known as peremptory norm) are derived from the customary international law, and it is a rule or principle which is so… ...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
The United Nations Human Rights Council
International Law
Introduction The core of the United Nations (UN) 2006 policy reform was the establishment of a new human rights body. The United Nations Human .. ...
Last modified: 22nd Jul 2019
