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  • A Dictionary of Law Enforcement

    A Dictionary of Law Enforcement A Dictionary of Law Enforcement is “the only dictionary available -according to Oxford University Press, its publisher- that focuses on United Kingdom (British) law enforcement terms. This legal resource contains over 3,400 legal terms, covering many United Kingdom and European Union institutions.” Most of the entries in “A Dictionary of…

  • A Dictionary of Law Enforcement

    A Dictionary of Law Enforcement A Dictionary of Law Enforcement is “the only dictionary available -according to Oxford University Press, its publisher- that focuses on United Kingdom (British) law enforcement terms. This legal resource contains over 3,400 legal terms, covering many United Kingdom and European Union institutions.” Most of the entries in “A Dictionary of…

  • Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States

    Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States. By the Best American and European Writers Subjects of the Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States. By the Best…

  • Rules of Neutrality

    Neutrality Rules of NeutralityIntroduction to Rules of NeutralityThe complicated rules of neutrality are based, for the most part, on two deceptively simple assumptions, namely, that a neutral state, being neither judge nor party in the conflict, must show impartiality in its deali…

  • NATO Background

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): BackgroundIntroduction to NATO BackgroundIn the years after World War II (1939-1945), many Western leaders believed the policies of the USSR threatened international stability and peace. The forcible installation of Communist governments t…

  • International Law Treaties

    International Law System: TreatiesIntroduction to International Law TreatiesTreaties are written agreements between two or more sovereign states. International organizations may also be given the capacity to make treaties, either with sovereign states or other international organiz…

  • Freedom of the Seas History

    Introduction to Freedom of the Seas HistoryDuring the Middle Ages, freedom of navigation on the high seas was curtailed by maritime powers that asserted territorial sovereignty over various bodies of water. Challenges by other countries to such claims increased markedly during the 16th and …

  • 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 …

  • 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…

  • Alabama Arbitration

    “Alabama” Arbitration Introduction According to Collier’s New Encyclopedia, the Alabama claims were a “series of claims made in 1871 by the United States against the English Government for damages done to shipping during the Civil War, after a formal discussion between the two governments in 1865, and fruitless conventions for their settlement in 1868 and…

  • Declaration of Paris, Historical

    About the Declaration of Paris, Historical One point of considerable interest in International Law is the very different degree of durability which the various parts of the system have proved to possess. The oldest rules which belong to its structure are simply rules of religion and morality ordinarily applied between man and man, but so…

  • Edgar Algernon Cecil

    Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864-1958), English lawyer and statesman, third son of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1937, was born Sept. 14 1864. Educated at Eton and University College, Oxford, he obtained a second class in…

  • International Trade Union Associations

    International Trade Union Associations International Trade Union Associations between 2011 and 2022 The chief international trade union body is the International Federation of Trade Unions, to which most of the chief national trade union bodies are affiliated. Its headquarters are in Amsterdam, and in 1921 it had a membership of just under 24 millions. There…

  • Herbert Henry Asquith

    Herbert Henry Asquith Herbert Henry Asquith (12 September 1852 15 February 1928), 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was a Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. He succeeded Henry Campbell-Bannerman. He was succeeded by David Lloyd George. English statesman, had been confirmed in power as Prime Minister by the general…

  • Maritime Insurance, Historical

    See Also Right or Abandonment in Marine Insurance, Historical Abandonment and Total Loss, Historical Admiralty, Historical Average, Historical Blockade Embargo Jettison Marine Insurance Maritime Liens Masters of Vessels Salvage Shipps and Shipping Subrogation Usages and Customs Abandon, Historical Further Reading Encyclopedia of Pleading and Practice, title “Insurance” A manual of maritime law : consisting of…