Download or read book The Ad Hoc Diplomat A Study in Municipal and International Law written by Maurice Waters and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The special diplomatic agent has played in the history of American foreign policy an important and, it is safe to say, unique role. The names of Colonel House and Harry Hopkins come, of course, right away to mind. But there have been others: John Quincy Adams, Ber nard M. Baruch, Henry Clay, Albert Gallatin, James Monroe, John Randolph, Daniel Webster, Wendell Wilkie, for instance. At the beginning of American history, the use of the special agent was primarily due to the scarcity of available talent. Later it was due to the low quality of many diplomatic representatives, chosen for political reasons and without regard for their diplomatic qualifications. More recently, the President has availed himself of the special agent in order to make sure that his will prevails in the conduct of American foreign policy. The institution of the special agent is indeed inseparable from the preeminent, contested and uncertain role the President plays in the determination of American foreign policy. Since the Constitution is silent on that point, the ultimate determi nation of American foreign policy has been throughout American history a subject ot controversy between the President and Congress.
Download or read book The Immunity of States and Their Officials in International Criminal Law and International Human Rights Law written by Rosanne Van Alebeek and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of international human rights law and international criminal law has triggered the question whether states and their officials can still shield themselves from foreign jurisdiction by invoking international immunity rules when human rights issues are involved. The Pinochet case was the first case that put this issue in the limelight of international attention. Since then, the question has been put to several domestic and international courts, and has engaged the minds of scholars and politicians around the world. This book examines the tension between international immunity rules, international human rights law, and international criminal law. The progressive development of a normative system of international human rights law and international criminal law without the simultaneous development of international institutional enforcement mechanisms had brought the question of the role of national courts in the application of these norms to the fore and has made the question as to the relation between immunity rules and human rights and international criminal law an immediate one. The tension between the centuries old immunity rules and the relatively recent developments in international human rights law and international criminal law presents itself in two distinct forms. In the first place it can be questioned whether immunity rules as such are compatible with certain fundamental rights of individuals under international law such as the rights of access to court, the right to a remedy, or the right to effective protection. Secondly, it can be questioned whether immunity rules apply unabridged in proceedings concerning grave human rights abuses. In its examination of these two questions this book sets out to clearly distinguish the different scope and nature of the rule of state immunity, the rule of functional immunity and the personal immunity of diplomatic agents and heads of state. While strong arguments against certain applications of immunity rules can be derived from international human rights law and international criminal law, this book argues that an unqualified attack on immunity rules risks casting a shadow over all human rights based arguments.
Download or read book Protection of Officials of Foreign States According to International Law written by F Przetacznik and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1983-04 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The International Law of Diplomacy written by Bhagevatula Satyanarayana Murty and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1989-10-13 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recognition of Governments in International Law written by Stefan Talmon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an analysis of the diplomatic practice of States, and decisions by national and international courts, this book explores the two central questions of the recognition of governments. These are namely: what are the meanings of the term 'recognition' and its variants in internationallaw; and what is the effect of recognition on the legal status of foreign authorities, and in particular of authorities in exile recognized as governments. The book is comprehensive in its analysis of the issues, and covers material which is of significant historical interest, as well as highlytopical material such as recent developments in Angola, Kuwait and Haiti. Thus Talmon's book will hold great appeal for international law scholars and practitioners alike. It may also be of interest to diplomats and civil servants working in organizations such as the United Nations.
Download or read book Digest of International Law written by Marjorie Millace Whiteman and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Will Justice Bring Peace written by Yehuda Z. Blum and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of this book contains a selection of articles written over five decades. The second part includes a selection of legal opinions written between 1962-1965, when the author was working in the legal department of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. An appendix reproduces a letter on anti-Semitism at the United Nations, sent by the author in his capacity as Israel's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN and addressed to the UN Secretary-General. The author's varied career, as a leading academic and high-ranking diplomat, offers a unique perspective on many aspects of international law, ranging from constitutional problems of the UN Charter to the Arab-Israel conflict. The author has chosen to reproduce all these writings in their original form, while being acutely aware that significant changes have occurred in many fields of international law in the intervening period. This he has done consciously in the belief that preserving his writings unchanged will, not only indirectly, attest to the fundamental shifts in many areas of international law, not all of which meet with his approbation.
Download or read book The Modern Law of Diplomacy written by Ludwik Dembinski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immunities of Special Missions Immunit s des missions sp ciales written by Council of Europe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Sending a Special Mission -- Immunities and Privileges of Members of a Special Mission -- Conclusions -- Questionnaire on "Immunities of Special Missions" -- Replies by States.
Download or read book Diplomatic Asylum written by Carroll Neale Ronning and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legal status of the institution of diplomatic asylum really presents two separate questions. (I) Is there evidence that states have regarded the practice of granting such asylum to political refugees as sanctioned by a rule of international law? (2) Assuming this to be the case, does the available evidence make it possible to define a "political refugee" and to determine which party to a dispute has the right to decide upon this question? While in many cases the two questions are not dearly separated in the discussions between the parties involved, they will be treated separately in the following pages. Part one will attempt to answer this question: Assuming the political nature of an offence can be establish ed, is there evidence that states have regarded the practice of granting diplomatic asylum as sanctioned by a rule of international law? Obviously, the two questions cannot be separated entirely but it seems advisable to try to isolate them as much as possible. CHAPTER I NATURE AND SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM The term "asylum" is used to identify such a variety of phenomena that the following distinctions must be made before the problem can be properly discussed I. Between diplomatic and territorial asylum. The importance of this distinction was pointed out by the International Court of Justice in the Colombian-Peruvian Asylum Case,l often referred to as the Haya de la Torre Case.
Download or read book Department of State Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legal Significance of the Declarations of the General Assembly of the United Nations written by Obed Y. Asamoah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Asamoah's book is concerned with an area of growing importance in the evolution of contemporary international law. The traditional division of the sources of International law into custom and treaties has already been supplemented in Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice by the "general principles of law re cognized by civilized nations" and-as subsidiary sources, the judicial decisions and the teachings of highly qualified publicists. But in order to cope with the diversity of international law in our time, we have to look to a far greater variety of sources of international law, and we shall have to recognize that, in accordance with the many-sided character of international law, these sources may vary greatly in intensity. In recent years, Declaratory Resolutions of the General Assembly have been much concerned with the general princi ples of international law. Sometimes these Declarations are interpre tations of the Charter and other instruments; sometimes they are evi dence of state practice and a developing customary international law ; sometimes they formulate new principles which, in some cases will eventually lead to international treaties or new custom, or in other cases will be accepted as authorative statements of international legal principles, in circumstances where a formal treaty cannot be attained. There are many reasons--often of an internal character-which prevent the conclusion of a treaty but not the acceptance of the principles contained in it.
Download or read book German Yearbook of International Law Jahrbuch F R Internationales Recht written by Jost Delbrück and published by Duncker & Humblot. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhalt: M. Bos, The Identification of Custom in International Law - O. Kimminich, Technology Transfer and International Law: Towards Conceptual Clarity - C. Tomuschat, Das Recht auf Entwicklung - W. Brugger, Human Rights Norms in Ethical Perspective - P. Kunig, The Protection of Human Rights by International Law in Africa - K. Hailbronner, International Terrorism and the Laws of War - A. Rosas, Negative Security Assurances and Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons - H. Meyrowitz, Le statut des armes nucléaires en droit international; 1e part - H.S. Levie, Some Recent Develo.
Download or read book Accessions List written by United States. Department of State. Library Division and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Current Bibliography of International Law written by J. G. Merrills and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1978 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Journal of International Law written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1970-1973 include: American Society of International Law. Meeting. Proceedings, 64th-67th, previously published separately; with the 68th, resumed being publihsed separately.
Download or read book International Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
