Search results for: “foreign immunities exceptions”

  • Acts of Terrorism

    Acts of Terrorism in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): Section 1083(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 ("NDAA"), Pub. L. No. 110-181, 122 Stat. 343, repealed […]

  • Direct Effect Requirement

    "Direct Effect" Requirement in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): In December 2011, the United States filed a brief as amicus curiae in the Supreme Court of the United States advocating […]

  • Immunity of States

    Immunity of States Immunity of States from Jurisdiction Immunity of States from Jurisdiction in the United States The main subsections of Immunity of States from Jurisdiction include: Claims Concerning Property Taken in Violation of International Law: Learn about Claims Concerning Property Taken in Violation of International Law in the Law of the United States in…

  • Immunity From Attachment

    Immunity From Attachment of Multinational Research Satellite In relation to the international law practice and Immunity From Attachment of Multinational Research Satellite in this world legal Encyclopedia, please see the following section: Privileges, Immunities About this subject: […]

  • Immunity From Attachment

    Immunity From Attachment of Multinational Research Satellite In relation to the international law practice and Immunity From Attachment of Multinational Research Satellite in this world legal Encyclopedia, please see the following section: Privileges, Immunities About this subject: […]

  • De Sanchez v. Banco Central de Nicaragua

    JOSEFINA NAJARRO de SANCHEZ v. BANCO CENTRAL de NICARAGUA United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 770 F.2d 1385 Decided September 19, 1985 GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge: Clausewitz once described war as politics carried on by other means. Here it could be said that litigation is war carried on by other means. The plaintiff’s…

  • 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.…

  • List of International Business Law Selected Cases, by Subject

    Hello List of International Business Law Selected Court Decisions, by Topic Legal Status of Eastern Greenland: Treaties and Conventions (Sources of International Law) The Asylum Case : Custom (Sources of International Law)   D.THE SCOPE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN ACTUAL PRACTICE The Practice in International Tribunals The Practice in Municipal Courts Case 1-3. Sei Fjujii…

  • 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: Australia 1900, Amended 1927

    CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA JULY 9, 1900, AS AMENDED TO JULY 29, 1977 Chapter I The Parliament Part I General 1. Legislative power The legislative power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in a Federal Parliament, which shall consist of the Queen, a Senate, and a House of Representatives, and which is hereinafter…

  • Constitutional Text: Argentina 1994

    CONSTITUTION OF THE ARGENTINE NATION AUGUST 22ND, 1994 We, the representatives of the people of the Argentine Nation, gathered in General Constituent Assembly by the will and election of the Provinces which compose it, in fulfillment of pre-existing pacts, in order to form a national union, guarantee justice, secure domestic peace, provide for the common…

  • International Security Part 16

    International Security Part 16   217 Israel’s Security Barrier: An International Comparative Analysis And Legal Evaluation Barry A. Feinstein, Justus Reid Weiner George Washington International Law Review Volume 37, Number 2, 2005 p.309 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 218 UNITED STATES OBLIGATIONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE FALUN GONG V. JIANG ZEMIN LAWSUIT: A JUSTIFIED…

  • Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone 3

    Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone   Article 22 Sea lanes and traffic separation schemes in the territorial sea 1. The coastal State may, where necessary having regard to the safety of navigation, require foreign ships exercising the right of innocent passage through its territorial sea to use such sea lanes and traffic separation schemes as…

  • Convention on the Territorial Sea & the Contiguous Zone 3

    Convention on the Territorial Sea & the Contiguous Zone   Article 20 1. The coastal State should not stop or divert a foreign ship passing through the territorial sea for the purpose of exercising civil jurisdiction in relation to a person on board the ship. 2. The coastal State may not levy execution against or…

  • United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 23

    United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea   SUBSECTION B. RULES APPLICABLE TO MERCHANT SHIPS AND GOVERNMENT SHIPS OPERATED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES Article 27 Criminal jurisdiction on board a foreign ship 1. The criminal jurisdiction of the coastal State should not be exercised on board a foreign ship passing through the territorial sea…