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  • Alternative Dispute Resolution

    The Legal History of Alternative Dispute Resolution This section provides an overview of Alternative Dispute Resolution Alternative Dispute Resolution in Private International Law This section contain conflict of laws information and cross references related to alternative dispute resolution […]

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution

    The Legal History of Alternative Dispute Resolution This section provides an overview of Alternative Dispute Resolution Alternative Dispute Resolution in Private International Law This section contain conflict of laws information and cross references related to alternative dispute resolution […]

  • International Humanitarian Law Treaties

    International Humanitarian Law Treaties and Conventions Sources of international humanitarian law The sources are: International Humanitarian Law treaties. International Humanitarian Law is based on a number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional […]

  • Peace

    International Law: Matters of International Concern: Peace and Security Introduction to Peace Among the central aims of the UN are the maintenance of peace and security and the suppression of acts of aggression. The principles of the UN Charter prohibit the use of force to settle disputes and […]

  • Arbitration

    Arbitration, reference of a dispute to an impartial person or persons, called arbitrators, for a decision or award based on evidence and arguments presented by the disputants. The parties involved usually agree to resort to arbitration in lieu of court proceedings to resolve an existing […]

  • International Court

    Opposition to a Real International Court Lassa Oppenheim, in the book entitled The Future of International Law, about Opposition to a Real International Court, wrote in 1921: 59. But, incredible as it may sound, this is not generally recognized. It is just among the old champions of the […]

  • International Court

    Opposition to a Real International Court Lassa Oppenheim, in the book entitled The Future of International Law, about Opposition to a Real International Court, wrote in 1921: 59. But, incredible as it may sound, this is not generally recognized. It is just among the old champions of the […]

  • Permanent Court of Arbitration

    Introduction to Permanent Court of Arbitration Permanent Court of Arbitration, panel of arbitrators established by the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, signed by 24 nations at the first international peace conference at The Hague, the Netherlands, in 1899. The […]

  • Permanent Court of Arbitration

    Introduction to Permanent Court of Arbitration Permanent Court of Arbitration, panel of arbitrators established by the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, signed by 24 nations at the first international peace conference at The Hague, the Netherlands, in 1899. The […]

  • League of Nations

    The League of Nations was the ill-fated predecessor of the United Nations. Origins To Alexander of Russia's scheme of a Holy Alliance we need only briefly allude. Though admirable in intention it was rejected as "sublime nonsense and mysticism” by Castlereagh, and it eventually […]

  • League of Nations

    The League of Nations was the ill-fated predecessor of the United Nations. Origins To Alexander of Russia's scheme of a Holy Alliance we need only briefly allude. Though admirable in intention it was rejected as "sublime nonsense and mysticism” by Castlereagh, and it eventually […]

  • League of Nations Summary

    League of Nations Summary Introduction The Covenant of the League of Nations was incorporated in the Peace Treaty in 1919. After the World War I, the demand for an international organization to prevent war has often been made in the last four centuries after any great European conflict. The League proved incapable of effective action…

  • United Nations Secretariat

    United Nations Secretariat See: ? Charter of the United Nations ? UN: Purposes, principles and membership ? United Nations organs ? UN Pacific settlement of disputes ? UN: International cooperation and the ESC ? UN International Trusteeship system ? UN International Court of Justice ? United Nations Secretariat ? Other provisions Charter CHAPTER XV THE…

  • International Court of Justice Resources

    International Court of Justice Resources Official Publications of the ICJ Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions, & Orders: Advisory opinions and orders of the Court are printed chronologically and each issue volume has indexes and a table of contents. The original is printed on the left-hand page and the translation is on the right-hand page. Both…

  • 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…