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  • Middle East Peace Process

    Middle East Peace Process in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): As for security, every state has the right to self-defense, and Israel must be able to defend itself, by itself, against any threat. […]

  • 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 […]

  • Judicial Proceedings for Return of Child

    Judicial Proceedings for Return of Child Under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction Right To Seek Return When a person’s custody rights have been breached by the wrongful removal or retention of the child by another, he or she can seek return of the child pursuant to the Convention. This…

  • Judicial Proceedings for Return of Child

    Judicial Proceedings for Return of Child Under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction Right To Seek Return When a person’s custody rights have been breached by the wrongful removal or retention of the child by another, he or she can seek return of the child pursuant to the Convention. This…

  • International Alliances

    International Alliances ALLIANCES AND SUPERPOWER DOMINANCE, 1964-1968 The second half of the 1960s was a time of parallel crises for the two military alliances, NATO and the Warsaw Pact, in both of which superpower dominance was at issue. For the first time since the onset of the Cold War, the loosening of the Kremlin leadership…

  • Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in International Organizations

    Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in International Organizations Note: this entry is based on the article, authored by Alain Pellet, “Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes” of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Whether expressly or in practice, all regional international organizations offer to their Member States some kind of mechanism for the peaceful settlement…

  • Violent Crime

    A violent crime or crime of violence is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act is the objective, such as murder, as well as crimes in which violence is the means to an end, (including criminal ends)…

  • History of Nationalization

    History of Nationalization Introduction The fact that “Nationalization” had become in 1916-21 one of the burning political questions of the day is unfortunate as regards arriving at a clear appraisal of its principles, for, from the outset, it is difficult for a writer to avoid a certain bias in approaching its discussion. Yet Nationalization of…

  • 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.…

  • Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988

    Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL OCTOBER 5, 1988 Preamble We, the representatives of the Brazilian People, convened in the National Constituent Assembly to institute a democratic state for the purpose of ensuring the exercise of social and individual rights, liberty, security, well-being, development, equality and justice as…

  • Constitutional Text: Austria 1945, Amendments 1986,1987,1988,1990, 1992 and 1993

    Constitutional Text: Amendments of 1986,1987,1988,1990, 1992 and 1993 to the Austria Constitution of 1945 1986 AMENDMENT TO AUSTRIA’S CONSTITUTION OF 1945 APRIL 24, 1986 212. Federal constitutional law of April 4, 1986, amending the federal constitutional law of 1929 (amendment to the federal constitutional law 1986) The National Assembly has decided: Article I. The federal…

  • History of Yugoslavia

    Introduction This is the first part of the history of Yugoslavia, which has had hugue implications in international law, specially European law. The country Also called “Jugoslavia”. The official name was the “Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes” (Kraljevina Srba Hnata i Slovcnaca). The country came into being in the closing months of 1918…

  • Outline of Evidence

    Note: this entry is based in United States law I. Burdens and Presumptions a. Burden of Proof i. Burden of pleading 1. You have to plead a claim, to state a claim for which relief can be granted ii. Burden of production 1. Must introduce evidence to support your claim in your pleading iii. Burden…

  • Unidroit Convention on Agency in the International Sale of Goods 2

    Unidroit Convention on Agency in the International Sale of Goods   Article 13 (1) Where the agent acts on behalf of a principal within the scope of his authority, his acts shall bind only the agent and the third party if: (a) the third party neither knew nor ought to have known that the agent…