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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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
Legal Issues Pertaining to Space Tourism and It’s Future in India
International Law
Space tourism has been identified as: any commercial activity offering customers direct or ......
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
In the Cases of the Serbian and the Brazilian Loans
International Law
1. Importance of Treaties Treaties are the first and foremost source of International law. Whenever an International Court has to decide an ......
Last modified: 22nd Jul 2019
The Law of Treaties Is Set Out in the 1969 Vienna Convention
International Law
One of the necessary aspects of the Vienna Convention is its scope. Article 1 of the Convention discusses the scope of the Convention stating that ......
Last modified: 22nd Jul 2019
Responsibility for Injury to Aliens?
International Law
This article aims to address the following issues regarding the law of state responsibility for injury to aliens. Some of the aspects......
Last modified: 22nd Jul 2019
World Trade Law Final Draft Analysis of the Unforeseen Developments
International Law
One of the initial philosophies of the international trading system under the World Trade Organization has been that, member countries are bound by......
Last modified: 22nd Jul 2019
The United Nations Capability To Counter Terrorism
International Law
Growing Threat of Terror Indisputably, terrorism is a threat to world peace. As it thrives in a world of ours where violation of human rights ......
Last modified: 22nd Jul 2019
How Powerful is the WTO?
International Law
WTO is a major global economic actor and the first organization to come closer to becoming a world economic government. It has been established ......
Last modified: 22nd Jul 2019
What is the World Trade Organization?
International Law
'The WTO has been termed a Mercedes Benz without gas.' (Ostry 1997, 202) The World Trade Organization (WTO)......
Last modified: 22nd Jul 2019
