Search results for: “first world war”
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World Trade Law
World Trade Law Contents of World Trade Law Contents of this subject matter include: Introduction: the basis of world trade – an examination of comparative advantage and asking the question: “why trade at all?” the 'Buy Australia' Campaign, the relationship between […]
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Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program
Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program: As discussed in section 3.C.1.a., in this world legal Encyclopedia, President Obama signed the Department of State Rewards […]
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Third World
Summary of Third World That group of less developed and developing nations not included in the political camps of either the Western industrialized states or the communist bloc. Most nations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia fall into this category. The term is commonly applied to nations […]
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World Court Digest
World Court Digest Introduction This Digest, produced by the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law, is a systematic arrangement of the views on questions of international law as expressed in the judgments, advisory opinions, and orders of the International Court of Justice, including separate opinions of individual judges. Volumes 1 and 2…
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World Trade
World Trade World Trade Law Resources The World Trade Organization (WTO) first entered into force as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in January of 1948 as a multilateral instrument for 123 governments. Its main objective was to liberalize international trade and place it on a secure basis. After the 1993 Uruguay round,…
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War Crimes Trials
Introduction to War Crimes TrialsWar Crimes Trials, trials of persons charged with criminal violation of the laws and customs of war and related principles of international law.The first war crimes trials in modern times were held after World War II (1939-1945) by the victorious All…
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List of Constitutions of the World
List of Constitutions of the World The Encyclopedia offers (in most cases, authoritative) translations of the constitutions of most countries. In some cases, complementing the official documents are introductory and comparative notes and cross references examining amendments, and highlighting pertinent historical, political, and economic factors. List of Constitutions with some additional information This list includes…
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Edward Henry Carson
Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson (9 February 1854, Dublin, Ireland 22 October 1935, Kent, England), often known as Sir Edward Carson or Lord Carson. British statesman and lawyer, son of Edward Henry Carson, C.E., Dublin, was educated at Portarlington school and afterwards at Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the Irish bar, and made…
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Prisoners of War Law
Prisoners of War Law Introduction Prisoners of War Law is mainly covered under the Geneva Convention which defines POWs as a person, civilian or combatant who is held in continuing custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. Prisioners of Law (POW) is any person captured or interned by a belligerent…
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Laws of war Part 3
Laws of war Part 3 28 Beyond the rudimentary and brutal: Procedure, evidence and sentencing in Australia’s first criminal court Brent Salter Criminal Law Journal Volume 33, Number 2, April 2009 p.87 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW The practices of Australia’s first superior criminal court between 1788-1807, the New South Wales Court of Criminal…
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Law, War and Crime
Law, War and Crime Gerry Simpson (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2007, ix + 225 pp) Law, War and Crime is a history of International Criminal Law . The field is a young one and its tensions, ironies and incoherencies, illuminated in the first five chapters of Gerry Simpson’s book, are many; can, and how does, International…
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First Amendment: Finding Jefferson
First Amendment: Finding Jefferson In his Finding Jefferson: A Lost Letter, A Remarkable Discovery, and the First Amendment in an Age of Terrorism (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2008), legal scholar Alan Dershowitz not only employs his acquiring of an 1801 Jefferson letter to write about first amendment rights, but he places this…
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Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards Signed at: New York, 10 June 1958 to 31 December 1958 Entry into Force Date: 7 June 1959 Published in UK Treaty Series No. 20 (1976) Cmnd 6419 Depositary: Secretary-General of the United Nations Note: See below the table of Ratifications for details of declarations…
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Law Journals Ranking Worldwide
Law Journals Ranking Worldwide Note: see also Law Journals (entry). Over the years, many ranking systems for law journals have evolved, incorporating a variety of methodologies and factors, including frequency and other factors. The publication of rankings may change submission patterns, with journals with higher ratings receiving a much greater number of submissions, some of…
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Western Front
History of the Western Front The following commentary about Western Front in the Churchill Era is produced by the Churchill College (Cambridge): The battlefront in the First World War which, from late 1914, ran in a single line of trenches from the Belgian coast to the Swiss frontier. The […]