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    International law / Valerie Epps, Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA, Lorie Graham, Professor of Law, Co-Director of the International Law Concentration, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA.

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    • Title:International law / Valerie Epps, Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA, Lorie Graham, Professor of Law, Co-Director of the International Law Concentration, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA.
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    • Author/Creator:Epps, Valerie, 1943- author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Graham, Lorie, 1962- author.
    • Published/Created:New York : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, [2015]
      ©2015

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:International law.
    • Genre/Form: Problems and exercises.
      Study guides.
    • Edition:Second edition.
    • Description:xxv, 444 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
    • Series:Examples & explanations series.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781454833949 (alk. paper)
      1454833947 (alk. paper)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1.1. What Is International Law?
      1.2. Traditional Definition Challenged
      2.1. Doctrine of Sources (Or Who Makes Up International Law?)
      2.2. Customary International Law
      2.2.1. Regional Customary Law
      2.2.2. Special or Local Customary Law
      2.2.3. Jus Cogens
      2.2.4. Opinio Juris
      2.3. Treaties
      2.4. Relationship of International Law to Domestic (National) Law
      2.5. General Principles of Law
      2.6. Judicial Decisions
      2.7. Writers and Scholars
      2.8. United Nations' Resolutions
      2.8.1. General Assembly Resolutions
      2.8.2. Security Council Resolutions
      2.8.3. Proliferation of International Regulatory Systems
      2.9. "Soft Law" or Non-Binding Rules Process
      3.1. Definition of a Treaty
      3.2. Capacity to Conclude a Treaty
      3.3. Ratification
      3.3.1. Internal Ratification
      3.3.2. International Ratification
      3.4. Reservations
      3.5. Entry into Force
      3.6. Observance and Application of Treaties
      3.7. Interpretation of Treaties
      3.8. Individual Rights Arising Under Treaties
      3.9. Invalidity
      3.9.1. Error
      3.9.2. Fraud and Corruption
      3.9.3. Coercion
      3.9.4. Conflict with a Peremptory Norm (Jus Cogens)
      3.10. Termination and Suspension
      3.10.1. Material Breach
      3.10.2. Supervening Impossibility of Performance
      3.10.3. Fundamental Change of Circumstances: (Rebus Sic Stantibus)
      a. Change in the Law
      i. Fundamental Change of Circumstances
      b. Change in the Expected Results of the Treaty Project
      i. Supervening Impossibility of Performance
      3.11. Effect of War on Treaties
      3.11.1. Effect of War on Human Rights Treaties
      3.12. Procedure for Termination
      3.13. Remedies for Violation of a Treaty
      3.13.1. Enforcement of Treaties in National Courts
      3.14. State Succession in Respect of Treaties
      4.1. Introduction
      4.2. Definition of a State
      4.2.1. Defined Territory
      4.2.2. Permanent Population
      4.2.3. Government
      4.2.4. Capacity to Enter into Relations with Other States
      4.2.5. Recognition of States
      4.3. Secession and Self-Determination
      4.3.1. Introduction
      4.3.2. Secession as a Legal Concept
      4.3.3. Evolution of the Meaning of Self-Determination
      4.3.4. Court Cases Discussing Self-Determination or Secession
      4.4. State Responsibility
      4.4.1. Attributing Conduct to a State
      4.4.2. State Breaches of International Obligations Where Wrongfulness Is Precluded
      4.4.3. State's Obligation to Make Reparations for Breaches of International Obligations
      Satisfaction
      Restitution
      Compensation
      4.4.4. State's Capacity to Bring International Claims on Behalf of Individuals
      4.5. International Organizations
      4.5.1. Inter-Governmental Organizations
      a. United Nations' International Legal Status
      b. Structure of the United Nations
      c. United Nations' Principal Organs
      General Assembly
      Security Council
      Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
      Trusteeship Council
      International Court of Justice
      Secretariat
      4.5.2. Regional International Organizations
      4.5.3. Non-Governmental International Organizations
      4.6. Non-State Groups
      4.6.1. Protected Groups
      4.6.2. Non-State Actors
      4.7. International Status of the Individual
      4.8. Multinational Corporations
      4.9. Conclusion
      5.1. Obligation to Settle Disputes
      5.2. Arbitration
      5.2.1. Permanent Court of Arbitration
      5.3. International Civil Courts
      5.3.1. Permanent Court of International Justice
      5.3.2. International Court of Justice
      a. Composition of the Court
      b. Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice in Contentious Cases
      i. "[A]ll cases which the parties refer to it (i.e., the Court)..."
      ii. "[A]ll matters specially provided for in the Charter of the United Nations..."
      iii. "[A]ll matters...in treaties and conventions in force"
      iv. Compulsory Jurisdiction: Also Known as "The Optional Clause"
      v. Jurisdiction Forum Prorogatum
      c. Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice in Advisory Cases
      d. Power of the International Court of Justice to Issue Interim Measures of Protection
      5.3.3. Examples of Other Major International Civil Courts and Tribunals
      a. International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
      b. Iran-United States Claims Tribunal
      c. World Trade Organization: Dispute Settlement Body
      5.3.4. Regional Courts
      a. Europe
      b. Americas
      c. Africa
      d. Arab States
      e. Asia
      5.4. Conclusion
      6.1. Introduction
      6.2. Territorial Principle
      6.3. Nationality Principle
      6.4. Passive Personality Principle
      6.5. Protective Principle
      6.6. Universality Principle
      6.7. Extradition
      6.8. Immunity from Jurisdiction
      6.8.1. Diplomatic Immunity
      6.8.2. Consular Immunity
      6.8.3. Head of State's and Other Ministers' Immunity
      6.8.4. Immunity for International Organizations
      6.8.5. Sovereign Immunity
      Absolute Theory
      Restrictive Theory
      Foreign Sovereign Immunity Required in National Courts in Certain Cases
      7.1. Terra Nullius
      7.2. Discovery
      7.3. Occupation
      7.4. Conquest
      7.5. Cession
      7.6. Prescription
      7.7. Uti Possidetis Juris
      7.8. Accretion and Avulsion
      7.9. Special Territorial Regimes
      7.9.1. Arctic
      7.9.2. Antarctic
      7.9.3. Celestial Bodies and Space
      8.1. Introduction
      8.1.1. Origins of International Human Rights Law
      8.1.2. Some Theories of Human Rights
      8.2. Law of Treaties in the Human Rights Context
      8.2.1. Interpretation
      8.2.2. Reservations
      8.2.3. Non-Self-Executing Treaties
      8.2.4. Termination
      8.3. Human Rights Law in the United Nations System
      8.3.1. U.N. Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights
      8.3.2. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
      Rights and Freedoms Under the ICCPR
      States' Duties to Implement ICCPR Rights and Freedoms
      States' Powers to Derogate from or Limit ICCPR Rights
      Monitoring and Enforcement of Rights
      Alternative Reporting Processes
      Optional Protocols
      8.3.3. International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
      Rights and Freedoms Under the ICESCR
      States' Duties to Implement ICESCR Rights
      Monitoring and Enforcement Under the ICESCR
      8.3.4. Customary International Human Rights Law
      8.4. Charter-Based Bodies
      8.4.1. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
      8.4.2. Human Rights Council
      8.4.3. International Court of Justice
      8.4.4. U.N. Security Council
      9.1. Introduction
      9.2. U.N. Conventions on Specific Human Rights Topics
      9.3. Role of Non-Governmental Organizations
      9.4. Regional Human Rights Systems
      9.4.1. European Human Rights System
      9.4.2. Inter-American System
      9.4.3. African System
      9.4.4. Emergence of Other Regional Human Rights Systems
      9.5. Group Rights
      9.6. Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights
      10.1. Introduction
      10.2. Coercive Measures Not Amounting to Armed Force
      10.2.1. Retorsions
      10.2.2. Reprisals Not Involving the Use of Armed Force
      10.3. Pre-1945 Law on the Use of Armed Force
      10.3.1. Customary Law of Self-Defence
      10.4. Post-1945 Law
      10.4.1. Jus Ad Bellum
      10.4.2. United Nations Charter
      a. Meaning of "Force"
      b. What Is a Threat of Force?
      c. Must Force Be Used for a Particular Objective to Violate Article 2(4)?
      d. Exceptions to Article 2(4)
      i. Self-Defence
      a. What Level of Armed Force Gives Rise to the Right of Self-Defence?
      b. Must an Armed Attack Be Carried Out by a State to Trigger the Right of Self-Defence?
      ii. Preemption
      iii. Forceful Countermeasures
      e. Reprisals Using Force
      10.4.3. Rule of Non-Intervention
      a. Civil Wars and the Rule of Non-Intervention
      b. Intervention in Particular Circumstances
      i. Intervening to Protect Nationals Abroad
      ii. Humanitarian Intervention
      iii. Responsibility to Protect
      c. Security Council's Power to Intervene
      i. Article 41 Measures
      ii. Article 42 Measures
      d. United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
      10.5. Jus in Bello
      10.5.1. Regulation of the Conduct of Hostilities
      a. Modern-Era History: The Hague and Geneva Conventions
      10.5.2. Specific Rules of International Humanitarian Law (IHL)
      a. Introduction
      b. Principle of Distinction and the Definition of Combatants/Military Objects and Civilians/Civilian Objects
      c. Treatment of Those Captured in Armed Conflict
      10.5.3. Weapons Control
      a. Historical Progression
      b. Nuclear Weapons
      i. Conventions and Declarations that Limit the Spread or Use of Nuclear Weapons
      ii. Conventions that Call for the Reduction of Nuclear Weapons
      iii. Conventions that Declare Certain Areas of the World Nuclear Weapons Free
      iv. Conventions that Prohibit the Testing of Nuclear Weapons
      v. I.C.J.'s Advisory Opinion on Nuclear Weapons
      10.6. Conclusion
      11.1. Introduction
      11.2. Definition of Crimes
      11.2.1. Genocide
      11.2.2. War Crimes
      11.2.3. Crimes Against Humanity
      11.2.4. Crime of Aggression
      11.3. Individual Responsibility
      11.4. Defenses
      11.4.1. Specific Defenses
      11.5. State Responsibility
      11.6. International and Hybrid (National/International) Criminal Tribunals
      11.6.1. International Criminal Tribunals: Introduction
      11.6.2. Nuremberg Trials
      11.6.3. Tokyo Trials
      Contents note continued: 11.6.4. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
      11.6.5. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
      11.6.6. International Criminal Court
      11.6.7. Hybrid (National/International) Criminal Tribunals: Introduction
      11.6.8. Special Court for Sierra Leone
      11.6.9. East Timor Tribunal
      11.6.10. Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
      11.6.11. Special Tribunal for Lebanon
      12.1. Introduction
      12.2. Internal Waters
      12.2.1. Bays
      12.2.2. Historic Bays
      12.3. Territorial Sea
      12.3.1. Measuring the Territorial Sea
      12.3.2. Powers of the Coastal State in the Territorial Sea and Foreign Ships' Right of Innocent Passage
      a. Meaning of Innocent Passage
      b. Coastal States' Right of Action Against Non-Innocent Passage
      12.4. Archipelagos
      12.5. International Straits
      12.5.1. Definition of an International Strait
      a. Customary Law
      b. Treaty Law
      12.5.2. Transit Passage Through Some International Straits
      a. Transit Passage Contrasted with Innocent Passage
      12.6. Contiguous Zone
      12.7. Exclusive Economic Zone
      12.7.1. Coastal States' Rights in the Exclusive Economic Zone
      12.7.2. Foreign States' Rights in the Exclusive Economic Zone
      12.8. Continental Shelf
      12.8.1. Delimitation of the Continental Shelf Between States with Opposite or Adjacent Coasts
      12.9. High Seas
      12.10. Deep Sea Bed
      12.10.1. Deep Sea Bed Regime Under the 1982 Convention
      12.10.2. Deep Sea Bed Regime Under the 1994 Agreement
      12.11. Settlement of Maritime Disputes
      12.12. Marine Pollution
      12.13. Jurisdiction over Vessels
      12.13.1. Genuine Link Requirement
      12.13.2. Remedy Where There Is No Genuine Link
      12.14. Prohibited Activities on the High Seas
      12.15. Jurisdiction over Foreign Vessels
      12.15.1. Jurisdiction in Internal Waters and Ports
      12.15.2. Jurisdiction in the Territorial Sea
      12.15.3. Right of Hot Pursuit
      12.16. Fishing on the High Seas
      13.1. Introduction
      13.2. State Responsibility for Environmental Harm
      13.3. Establishing the Standard for State Responsibility for Environmental Harm
      13.3.1. Customary Law Standards
      13.3.2. Declarations and Treaty Law Standards
      13.4. Hazardous Waste
      13.5. Atmosphere, Ozone, and Climate
      13.6. Nature, Flora, Fauna, and Other Resources
      13.7. Nuclear Fallout
      13.8. Other Regimes
      13.9. Guiding Environmental Principles
      13.9.1. Precautionary Principle
      13.9.2. Principle of Intergenerational Equity
      13.9.3. Principle of Sustainable Development
      13.9.4. Polluter Pays Principle
      13.9.5. Environmental Impact Assessment Principle
      13.9.6. Recognition of Differentiated Responsibilities for Developed and Developing States
      13.10. Conclusion.
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