general international law

Whatever the position under general international law, a decision on Scotland's status within the European Union is likely to be a political one.

Under customary and general international law, Mexico's authority to enforce the criminal law is exclusive.

He currently holds the chair of general international law at the University of Göttingen.

It was seen as a 'progressive' Article that pushed development of general international law in the direction chosen by the European Communities.

Chief Justice Rehnquist, for the majority, said the kidnapping may well have been "shocking" and "in violation of general international law principles."

The Journal has so far focused on the important big issues on general international law, with some emphasis on materials relating to China.

The law applicable to the claims by or against other entities must be articulated either by analogy to the Convention, or under general international law.

The U.S. signed the Agreement in 1994 and now recognizes the Convention as general international law, but has not ratified it at this time.

The only limit to pacta sunt servanda are the peremptory norms of general international law, called jus cogens (compelling law).

The ICJ ruled that the declaration "did not violate general international law because international law contains no 'prohibition on declarations of independence'":

Alexander Orakhelashvili cites a number cases in which international tribunals have ruled that international organizations, includuing the Security Council, are bound by general international law.

Further sources are also found in areas of law such as general international law, the laws of war, human rights law and local laws of each affected country.

The United States would be in violation of its commitments to the parties if it did not do so, but would be in violation of general international law with respect to third parties.

The general jurisprudential thesis of the study is that, being part of and subject to general international law, the law of arms control cannot provide a technical guarantee against the occurrence of wars.

During the first world war, as well as working as a lawyer, Al -Suwaidi worked as a teacher in the Law college in Damascus, teaching Roman and general international law.

Some of the corresponding rights of protection have entered into the body of general international law . . . others are conferred by international instruments of a universal or quasi-universal character."

During the debate before the ICJ in December 2009, Russia said that general international law prevents Kosovo from declaring independence and that the people of Kosovo do not enjoy a right to self-determination.

While international law-making negotiations take place in a variety of specialized bodies of the United Nations, depending on their actual subject-matter, those negotiations related to general international law are usually held at the Sixth Committee.

The central jurisprudential theme of this study adopts this perspective and investigates the role of -and interactions with- the institutions and mechanisms of general international law in the negotiation, operation, verification and enforcement of arms control agreements.

The unlimited damage clause may still apply, or they might instead be responsible for an illegal act under general international law in violation of Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty, which doesn't have the same provisions of unlimited liability.

In the case of the Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion, the ICJ found that as a matter of general international law that States must take the environment into account when deciding on what is necessary and proportionate in pursuing legitimate military objectives.

The court delivered its advisory opinion on 22 July 2010; by a vote of 10 to 4, it declared that "the declaration of independence of the 17th of February 2008 did not violate general international law because international law contains no 'prohibition on declarations of independence'."

The EU has relied on general international law and a European regional system of international law (based on the Council of Europe, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, etc.) and in a case of necessity accepted their norms.

This is because the weakness of general international law itself is not due to technical reasons: International law is a function of the political community of nations, the defects of which are due to the embryonic character of the community in which it functions, not due to its technical shortcomings.

Also included were 'general international law instruments - universal and regional', such as copies of the UN Charter, Helsinki Final Act, and various agreements on civil and human rights, as well as other legal documents from the wider Balkans (such as the rulings of the Badinter Commission).