Complete International Law: Text, Cases and Materials

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by  Ademola Abass

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Ademola Abass
LLM (Cantab), PhD (Nottingham)
Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society
Adjunct Professor of International Law
University of Leuven, Belgium
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New to this edition
Law Trove
Complete International Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (2nd
edn)
Ademola Abass
Publisher: Oxford University Press Print Publication Date: Aug 2014
Print ISBN-13: 9780199679072 Published online: Oct 2014
DOI: 10.1093/he/9780199679072.001.0001
New to this edition

• Two new chapters—on immunity and international humanitarian law
• Expanded chapters on the law of treaties and international economic law
• Complete reworking of the chapter on collective security law
• Discussion of the responsibility of international organizations
• Inclusion of the post-Kyoto regulation in the international environmental law chapter
• Analysis of the procedural concerns raised by the first case to be decided by the ICC,
Thomas Lubanga, and an assessment of its impact on the development of war crimes
elements: actus reus and mens rea (p. xii)
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Table of cases
Law Trove
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Table of cases

A. Ahlström Osakeyhtiö and others v Commission of the European Communities, (C-89/85,
C-104/85, C-114/85, C-116/85, C-117/85 and C-125/85–C-129/85) [1993] ECR I-1307,
European Court of Justice (The European Wood Pulp Case) . . . 247
A & ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2004] UKHL 56 . . . 730
AIC Ltd v Central Government of Nigeria [2003] EWHC 1357 (QB) . . . 272
A.S. v Iran – United States Claims Tribunal, Supreme Court (Hooge Raad) of the Netherlands,
20 December 1985, [1994] ILR 327 . . . 194
Abdi Hosh Askir v Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Joseph E. Connor et al. 933 F Supp 368 (SDNY
1996) . . . 196
Abrahams v Minister of Justice 1963 (4) SA 542 . . . 262
Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect
of Kosovo (Request for Advisory Opinion) (2010) ICJ REP 403 (Kosovo Case) . . . 127
Adams v Adams (Attorney-General Intervening) [1971] P 188 . . . 142
Advisory Opinion Concerning the International Status of South West Africa (1950) ICJ Rep
133 (South West Africa Cases) . . . 50, 129
Advisory Opinion on the Difference Relating to Immunity from Legal Process of a Special
Rapporteur of the Commission of Human Rights (1999) ICJ Rep 62 . . . 115
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Advisory Opinion on the Interpretation of the Convention between Greece and Bulgaria
Respecting Reciprocal Emigration, Signed at Neuilly Sur-Seine on 27 November 1919
(1930) PCIJ Ser B, No 17 (Greco-Bulgarian Communities Case) . . . 307
African Development Bank v Haas (2005) Journal des Tribunaux 454, Cour de Cassation . . .
196
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation v Nawab Khan Gulab Khan and ors 1997 AIR SC 152 . . .
706
Al-Adsani v Government of Kuwait (No 2) (1996) 107 ILR 536 . . . 287
Al-Adsani v United Kingdom (2001) 34 EHRR 273 (The Al-Adsani Case) . . . 287
Al Jedda v Secretary of Defence [2007] 24 BHRC 569 . . . 447
Albania v United Kingdom (Merits) (1949) ICJ Rep 4 (Corfu Channel Case) . . . 345, 467
Altstötter & ors, Re (1947) 14 Annual Digest 278 (Justice Trial) . . . 605
AMCO Asia Corporation v Republic of Indonesia (1982) 89 ILR 366 . . . 53
Applicability of Article VI, Section 22, of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of
the United Nations Advisory Opinion (1989) ICJ Rep 194 (Mazilu Case) . . . 115
Applicability of the Obligation to Arbitrate under Section 21 of the United Nations
Headquarters Agreement of 26 June 1947 Advisory Opinion (1988) ICJ Rep 12 . . . 525
Application of the Interim Accord of 13 September 1995 (the former Yugoslav Republic
Macedonia v Greece) (2011) I. C. J. Reports, 644 . . . . 103
Application for Revision and Interpretation of the Judgment of 24 February 1982 in the Case
Concerning the Continental Shelf (Tunisia v Libya) (1985) ICJ Rep 182 . . . 571
Application for Revision of the Judgment of 11 July 1996 in the Case Concerning Application
of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and
Herzegovina v Yugoslavia), Preliminary Objections (Yugoslavia v Bosnia and Herzegovina)
(1996) ICJ Rep 595 . . . 539, 571
Arab Monetary Fund v Hashim (No 3) (1991) AC 114 . . . 171, 173, 328
Arango v Guzman Travel Advisors Corporation (1980) 621 F.2d 1371 . . . 284
Arantzazu Mendi, The [1939] AC 256 . . . 144
Argentina v Chile (1994) 113 ILR 1 (Laguna del Desierto Case) . . . 53
(p. xxi) Attorney-General of Israel v Eichmann (1968) 36 ILR 5 (DC) 340 (Eichmann Case) .
. . 610
Australia v France (1973) ICJ Rep 99 (Nuclear Test Cases)...54
B v B [2000] 2 FLR 707 . . . 143
Bankovic´ & ors v Belgium & ors (App No 52207/99) ECtHR Grand Chamber, 12 December
2001 . . . 724
Baxter v Commissioners of Taxation (NSW) (1907) 4 CLR 1087 . . . 238
Behrami v France (App No 71412/01) (2007) 45 EHRR 10 . . . 196, 446, 447
Belgium v Bulgaria (1939) PCIJ Ser A/B, No 77 (Electricity Company in Sofia and Bulgaria
Case) . . . 541
Belgium v Greece (1939) PCIJ Ser A/B, No 78 (Société Commerciale de Belgique Case) . . .
484
Belgium v Senegal (2012) ICJ REP 1 (Question Relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or
Extradite) . . . 491
Belgium v Spain (Preliminary Objections) (Judgment) (1964) ICJ Rep 6 (Barcelona Traction
Case) . . . 541, 562, 572
Belgium v Spain (1970) ICJ Rep 4 (Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Co Ltd Case) . . .
475–7, 572
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Belilos v Switzerland (App No 10328/83) (1988) 10 EHRR 466 . . . 95, 96
Belmarsh (A, X and Y & ors) v Secretary of State [2004] QB 335 . . . 731
Benin v Niger (2002) ICJ Rep 613 (Frontier Dispute) . . . 531
Boguslawski v Gdynia-Ameryka Linie [1950] 1 KB 157 . . . 150
Boimah v United Nations General Assembly 664 F Supp 69 (EDNY 1987) . . . 196
Bosnia and Herzegovina v Serbia and Montenegro (1996) ICJ Rep 595 (Case concerning the
Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide) .
. . 539
Bosnia and Herzegovina v Serbia and Montenegro (2007) ICJ Rep 91 (Case Concerning the
Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide) .
. . 137
Bosnia and Herzegovina v Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) (Indication of Provisional
Measures) (1993) ICJ Rep 325 (Genocide Convention Case) . . . 528, 529
Bosnia v Serbia (2007) ICJ Rep 43 (Bosnian Genocide Case) . . . 458
Botswana v Namibia (1999) ICJ Rep 1045 (Kasikili/Sedudu Island Case)...81, 103, 493
Bouzari v Iran (Islamic Republic) [2002] OJ No 1624 . . . 322
Britain v Italy (1954) 14 RIAA 21 (Currie Case) . . . 448
British Guiana v Venezuela (1899–1900) 92 BFSP 160 (British Guiana–Venezuela Boundary
Arbitration) . . . 516
Buck and ors v Attorney-General [1965] Ch 745 . . . 268, 269
Burkina Faso v Mali (1985) ICJ Rep 6; (1986) ICJ Rep 3 (Frontier Dispute Case) . . . 52, 531
Buvot v Barbuit (1736) 3 Burr 2016 . . . 316
Cameroon v Nigeria (Preliminary Objections) (1998) ICJ Rep 275 (Land and Maritime
Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria Case) . . . 498, 548, 550, 565
Cameroon v Nigeria (2002) ICJ Rep 303 (Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon
and Nigeria Case) . . . 83, 87, 105, 209
Canada v United States of America (Judgment) (1984) ICJ Rep 305 (Delimitation of the
Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area) . . . 213
Carl Zeiss Stiftung v Rayner and Keeler Ltd [1965] 1 All ER 300 . . . 141, 142
Carl Zeiss Stiftung v Rayner and Keeler Ltd (No 2) [1967] 1 AC 853 . . . 141, 146
Case Concerning the Arrest Warrant of 11 April 2000 (Democratic Republic of the Congo v
Belgium) (2002) ICJ Rep 3 (Arrest Warrant Case)...286, 288, 291, 293
Case concerning Jurisdiction of the Courts in Danzig Advisory Opinion (1928) PCIJ Ser B, No
15 . . . 130, 131
Case concerning Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations (1949)
ICJ Rep 178 . . . 113, 130
Case concerning the Payment of Various Serbian Loans Issued in France (1929) PCIJ Ser A,
Nos 20–1 (Serbian Loans Case) . . . 308
Case concerning Western Sahara Advisory Opinion (1975) ICJ Rep 12 (Western Sahara
Case) . . . 119, 122, 566
Centre pour le Développement Industrie (CDI) v X (1992) Actualites du Droit 1377, Tribunal
Civil Bruxelles . . . 171
(p. xxii) Certain Expenses of the United Nations Advisory Opinion (1962) ICJ Rep 151 . . .
178, 183, 184, 186, 566
Chahal v United Kingdom (App No 70/1995/576/662) (1996) ECtHR, 15 November 1996 . . .
730
Charles Chitat Ng v Canada Communication No 469/1991, UN Doc
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