Search results for: “fishing permit”

  • Excessive Maritime Claims

    Excessive Maritime Claim—argentina in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): On May 20, 2011, the U.S. Embassy in Argentina received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, […]

  • UNCLOS III

    UNCLOS (Convention on Law of the Sea) III By Daniel Hollis Frustrated by the continuing inconsistency in the ocean governance regime, Malta’s ambassador to the United Nations, Arvid Pardo, called upon the General Assembly to take action and called for “an effective international regime over the seabed and the ocean floor,” that clearly defined national…

  • UNCLOS III

    UNCLOS (Convention on Law of the Sea) III By Daniel Hollis Frustrated by the continuing inconsistency in the ocean governance regime, Malta’s ambassador to the United Nations, Arvid Pardo, called upon the General Assembly to take action and called for “an effective international regime over the seabed and the ocean floor,” that clearly defined national…

  • Ocean Areas

    Ocean Areas Law of the Sea UNCLOS III: Divisions of Ocean Areas Note: for information on United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea III (UNCLOS III), please see here. By Daniel Hollis. One of the most powerful features of UNCLOS is that it settled the question of the extent of national sovereignty over the…

  • Political History as Science

    Political History as Science The New Political History as Science While the origins and presuppositions of the new political history were diverse and complex, they are easy to trace because the new genre was far more conscious of methodology than historians had ever been before. Newsletters, journals and training programs were established to study and…

  • High Seas

      PART VII HIGH SEAS SECTION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 86 Application of the provisions of this Part The provisions of this Part apply to all parts of the sea that are not included in the Exclusive Economic Zone , in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a State, or in the…

  • High Seas

      PART VII HIGH SEAS SECTION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 86 Application of the provisions of this Part The provisions of this Part apply to all parts of the sea that are not included in the Exclusive Economic Zone , in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a State, or in the…

  • Game Laws

    Introduction to Game LawsGame Laws, laws regulating the hunting or trapping of wild game: mammals, birds, or fish. As construed in the courts of the U.S., game is generally held to mean all wildlife fit for food; under some statutes the term is also held to include animals valuable for thei…

  • International Arbitration, Historical

    International Arbitration International arbitration is a proceeding in which two nations refer their differences to one or more selected persons, who, after affording to each party an opportunity of being heard, pronounce judgment on the matters at issue. It is understood, unless otherwise expressed, that the judgment shall be in accordance with the law by…

  • Civil Liberties Concerns

    Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: International ConcernsTo establish the principles of civil liberties and civil rights on an international basis, the United Nations Charter was drawn up after World War II (1939-1945); it states that one of the purposes of the UN is to promote and encourage…

  • History of Working Time

    History of Working Time Regulations History of Working Time until 1920 The decade following 1910 witnessed a rapid advance and extension in the already widespread movement in favour of the reduction of the hours of labour. This was mainly due, apart from general trade-union pressure, firstly to the repercussions of the World War and of…

  • History of Labor Legislation

    History of Labor Legislation Introduction In comparing legislation affecting factories, mines, shops and truck in the chief industrial countries of the continent with that of Great Britain, it is essential to a just view that inquiry should be extended beyond the codes themselves to the general social order and system of law and administration in…

  • History of the International Labour Organization

    History of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Origins of the ILO An important part of the scheme for a League of Nations embodied in the Peace Treaty of Versailles in 1919 involved the creation of a new International Labour Organization. The Labour part of the Treaty (Part XIII.) rested on the principle laid down in…

  • Sei Fujii v. the State of California

    SEI FUJII v. THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Supreme Court of California 38 Cal. 2d 718; 242 P.2d 617 Decided: April 17, 1952 Justice GIBSON Plaintiff, an alien Japanese who is ineligible to citizenship under our naturalization laws, appeals from a judgment declaring that certain land purchased by him in 1948 had escheated to the state.…

  • United States—Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products

    United States-Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products World Trade Organization, Appellate Body, 1998. Appellate Body Report WT/DS58/AB/R.[1] I. Introduction: Statement of the Appeal This is an appeal by the United States from certain issues of law and legal interpretations in the Panel Report, United States-Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products. .…