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  • Conservation Reauthorization

    Report to Congress on Implementation of Title vi of the Magnuson-stevens Fishery and Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2006 in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): Italy. During 2009 and 2010, many […]

  • Conservation Reauthorization

    Report to Congress on Implementation of Title vi of the Magnuson-stevens Fishery and Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2006 in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): Italy. During 2009 and 2010, many […]

  • Antiterrorism Efforts

    General Concerns Criticism about anti-terrorism legislation and other measures in the United States, Canada and other countries focussed on three main areas: general concerns about the scope and effectiveness of these initiatives, violations of civil liberties, and invasions of […]

  • Antiterrorism Efforts

    General Concerns Criticism about anti-terrorism legislation and other measures in the United States, Canada and other countries focussed on three main areas: general concerns about the scope and effectiveness of these initiatives, violations of civil liberties, and invasions of […]

  • Legal Firm Data Storage

    Legal Firm Data Storage There is digital information: case files, emails, pleadings and other documents and shared files, even instant messages everyone in the firm generates each day. And then there’s information governance: the rules and framework for managing all of a law firm’s electronic data and documents, including material produced in discovery, as well…

  • Promulgation

    Promulgation in Constitutional LawFrom the Comparative Constitutions Project: Promulgation is the act of formally proclaiming new legislation to the public. This occurs when the law receives final formal approval.

  • Freedom of the Seas in the 20th Century

    Freedom of the Seas 20TH-Century DevelopmentsIntroduction to Freedom of the Seas in the 20th CenturyDuring World War I, the use of submarines and aircraft demonstrated the inadequacy of international law with respect to freedom of the seas. Virtually all laws and treaties relating …

  • Legal Pluralism

    Legal Pluralism Legal Pluralism Hooker (1975: 1) highlighted that ‘[l]egal systems typically combine in themselves ideas, principles, rules, and procedures originating from a variety of sources’, adding that ‘[b]oth in the contemporary world and historically the law manifests itself in a variety of forms and a variety of levels’ (p. 1). Studying legal pluralism clearly…

  • 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…

  • Brazil – Measures Affecting Imports of Retreaded Tyres

    Brazil – Measures Affecting Imports of Retreaded Tyres   World Trade Organization – GATT Article XX(b) – Interpretation of necessity – arbitrary or unjustifable discrimination – disguised restriction Facts Brazil had imposed a prohibition on imports of retreaded tyres and on internal marketing of imported retreaded tyres. Brazil conceded that the measure was in violation…

  • Exclusive Economic Zone 3

    Exclusive Economic Zone   Article 65 Marine mammals Nothing in this Part restricts the right of a coastal State or the competence of an international organization, as appropriate, to prohibit, limit or regulate the exploitation of marine mammals more strictly than provided for in this Part. States shall co-operate with a view to the conservation…

  • Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area 2

    Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area   Article 7 Environmental impact Assessment 1. Whenever an environmental impact assessment of a proposed activity that is likely to cause a significant adverse impact an the marine environment of the Baltic Sea Area is required by international law or supranational regulations…

  • Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses

    Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses   Article 1 DEFINITIONS For the purposes of this Convention, 1. “Transboundary waters”means any surface or ground waters which mark, cross or are located on boundaries between two or more States; wherever transboundary waters flow directly into the sea, these transboundary waters end at a straight…

  • Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the North-East Atlantic Fisheries 3

    Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the North-East Atlantic Fisheries   Article 16 1. Each Contracting Party shall inform the Commission of its legislative measures and of any agreements which it may have concluded, in so far as those measures and agreements relate to the conservation and utilization of fishery resources in the Convention area.…

  • Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the North-East Atlantic Fisheries 3

    Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the North-East Atlantic Fisheries   Article 16 1. Each Contracting Party shall inform the Commission of its legislative measures and of any agreements which it may have concluded, in so far as those measures and agreements relate to the conservation and utilization of fishery resources in the Convention area.…