Encyclopedia of Public International Law update

Encyclopedia of Public International Law update

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law.

The March 2012 update adds over 200 new articles. Highlights include highly-anticipated contributions on such central topics as Foreign Relations, International Co-operation, International humanitarian law and Human Rights, bringing the total number of live articles to 1618.

Latest Articles added:

• Act of State Doctrine

• Agenda for Peace

• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (1994)

• Antarctica

• Arab-Israeli Conflict

• Armed Conflict, Effect on Treaties

• Armed Conflict, Non-International

• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

• Atmosphere, International Protection

• Autonomy

• Belgian Decolonization

• Belligerency

• Berlin Congress (1878)

• Biological Safety

• Biological Weapons and Warfare

• Black Sea

• Bogotá Pact (1948)

• Boundary Disputes in Latin America

• Central American Court of Justice (1907-18)

• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2000)

• Chechnya

• Civil Society

• Civilized Nations

• Clean Development Mechanism

• Climate, International Protection

• Collective Punishment

• Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)

• Commonwealth

• Compensation for Personal Damages Suffered during World War II

• Compliance, Theory of

• Côte d’Ivoire

• Criminal Jurisdiction of States under International Law

• Croatia

• Customs Unions

• Debts

• Decolonization

• Dispute regarding Navigational and Related Rights Case (Costa Rica v Nicaragua)

• Distress

• Divided States

• Doha Round

• Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (2004)

• Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States

• Economic Integration, Comparative Analysis

• Emblems, Internationally Protected

• Ems-Dollard

• Environment, International Protection

• Environment, Multilateral Agreements

• Environment, Protection in Armed Conflict

• Environment, Role of Non-Governmental Organizations

• Environmentally Sound Economic Activity, International Law

• Equator Principles

• Ethnic Cleansing

• Ethos, Ethics and Morality in International Relations

• European Administrative law

• European Citizenship

• European Common Foreign and Security Policy

• European Community and Union Law and Domestic (Municipal) Law

• European Community and Union, Association of Overseas Countries and Territories

• European Community and Union, Party to International Agreements

• European Community Security and Defence Policy

• European Integration

• European Union, Court of Justice and General Court

• Fair and Equitable Treatment

• Final Act

• Financial Assistance

• Fisheries, Commissions and Organizations

• Force majeure

• Foreign Relations Law

• Forests, International Protection

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1947 and 1994)

• General International Law (Principles, Rules and Standards)

• Genetically Modified Organisms

Geneva Conventions Additional Protocol I (1977)

Geneva Conventions Additional Protocol II (1977)

• Geneva Conventions I-IV (1949)

• Germany, Occupation after World War II

• Global Compact

• Global Environment Facility (GEF)

• Great Lakes Region, Africa

• Gross and Systematic Human Rights Violations

• Group of 77 (G77)

• Group Rights

• Guyana v Suriname Maritime Boundary Arbitration

• Hague Conventions on Private International Law and on International Civil Procedure

• Hegemony

• Helsinki Final Act (1975)

• Honorary Consuls

• Human Rights, Domestic Implementation

• Human Rights, Role of Non-Governmental Organizations

• Human Shields

• Humanitarian Law, International

• Indigenous Peoples

• Indiscriminate Attack

• Industrial Property, International Protection

• Information and Communication, Freedom of, International Protection

• Institut de Droit international

• Insurgency

• Inter-American Juridical Committee

• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)

• International Civil Litigation

• International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG)

• International Law

• International Law and Domestic (Municipal) Law

• International Law, Regional Developments: Africa

• International Maritime Organization (IMO)

• International Monetary Fund (IMF)

• International Monetary Fund, Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP)

• International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds

• International Organization for Migration (IOM)

International Organizations or Institutions, History of

International Organizations or Institutions, Responsibility and Liability

• Internet

• Investment Codes

• Investments, International Protection

• Islamic Approach to International Law

• Joint Exploitation Areas

• Judicial Settlement of International Disputes

• Kashmir

• Kimberley Process

• Kuril Islands

• Laos

• Legal Positivism

• Legitimacy in International Law

Lex Mercatoria

• Liability for Lawful Acts

• Like Products

• Lisbon Treaty

• London Agreement on German External Debts (1953)

• Lusitania, The

• Manuals on the Law of Armed Conflict

• Marine Environment, International Protection

• Maritime Safety Regulations

• Mass Media, Influence on International Relations

• Medellin v Texas Case

• Merchant Ships

• Military Government

• Military I (Bagosora and others) Case

• Military Tribunals

• Missile Warfare

• Monetary Law, European

• Monetary Law, International

• Nahimana and Others Case

• Nationality

• Necessity, State of

• Neutrality in Naval Warfare

• Neutralization

• Nile River

• Non-Recognition

• Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Nuclear Waste Disposal

• Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinions

• Oil for Food Programme

• Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

• Palmas Island Arbitration

• Paris Peace Treaty (1856)

• Peace Settlements after World War II

• Peace Treaties (1947)

• Peace Treaties after World War I

• Peacebuilding

• Peleus, The

• Perfidy

• Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

• Plant Genetic Resources, International Protection

• Prisoner Transfer

• Proportionality

• Protectorates and Protected States

• Psychological Warfare

• Railway Stations and Airports on Foreign Territory and Transborder Railway Traffic

• Recognition

• Referendum

• Regional Seas, Environmental Protection

• Remote Sensing

• Resistance Movements

• Responsibility of States for Private Actors

• Retorsion

• Rhine River

• Rhine-Main-Danube Waterway

• Russian Indemnity Arbitration

• Sanctions

• Security

• Serbia

• Services, Trade in

• Servitudes

• Ships, Visit and Search

• Slovenia

• Small Arms, International Restrictions on the Trade in

• Solidarity, Principle of

• Somalia, Conflict

• Sources of International Law

• South African Bantustan Policy

• South Ossetia

• Sovereignty

• Special Rapporteurs of Human Rights Bodies

• State

• State Ships

• Sudan

• Summit Meetings

• Supranational Law

• Suspension of Hostilities

• Targeted Killing

• Taxation, International

• Technology Transfer

• Territorial Change, Effects of

• Territorial Dispute Case (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya/Chad)

• Territory, Acquisition

• International Congress of Women (1915)

Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (1963),

• The International Tin Council (ITC)

• Trade and Labour Standards

• Trading with the Enemy

• Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Situations

• Uniform Sales Law

• Unilateralism/Multilateralism

• United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC)

• United Nations Peacebuilding Commission

• United Nations, Secretary-General

• Universality

• Use of Force, Prohibition of

• Uti possidetis Doctrine

• Verification of Facts

• Westphalia Peace of (1648)

• World Customs Organization (WCO)

• World Medical Association

• World Natural Heritage

• World Trade Organization, Enforcement System

• Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked

• Yugoslavia, Cases and Proceedings before the ICJ

• Yugoslavia, Dissolution of

Conclusion

Notes

See Also

References and Further Reading

About the Author/s and Reviewer/s

Author: international

Mentioned in these Entries

Administrative law, Encyclopedia of Public International Law update in August, Encyclopedia of Public International Law, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Geneva Conventions, International Organizations, International humanitarian law, Lex Mercatoria, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Private International Law, Treaties.


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