Free City of Danzig
Free City of Danzig and I.l.o. Case
Embracing mainstream international law, this section on free city of danzig and i.l.o. case explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.
International laws on free cities
Free cities has beeen defined as “State-like political and territorial entities and subjects of international law which, although independent in principle, do not dispose of the full capacity to act according to general international law but are restricted in this respect by a basic treaty. This degree of internationalization depends wholly on the individual settlement. A characteristic legal feature of free cities is that States and/or international organizations are charged with the guarantee of their existence and the control of their activities. Politically, the creation of free cities has always been the outcome of a compromise between competing territorial claims of the interested States which, by the settlement, avoid placing the area in question under the exclusive territorial sovereignty of one of the rival States. This also draws a clear distinction between free cities on the one hand and, on the other hand, free zones or free ports which have no political existence of their own but are areas belonging to a certain State which, however, has agreed to an international statute concerning these areas.” (1)
Resources
Notes and References
- Encyclopedia of Disputes Installment, 1987
Further Reading
- The entry “free city of danzig and i.l.o. case” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press
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