Contents Go to page: Front Matter Dedication Acknowledgements Table of cases Table of instruments 1. The nature of international law and the international legal system 2. Sources of international law 3. The law of treaties 4. The relationship between international and domestic law 5. Personality, statehood, and recognition 6. Sovereignty and jurisdiction 7. Immunity 8. Law of the sea 9. State responsibility 10. Peaceful settlement of disputes 11. Use of force 12. Human rights End Matter Exam essentials Outline answers Glossary Index Law Trove International Law Concentrate: Law Revision and Study Guide Ilias Bantekas and Efthymios Papastavridis Publisher: Oxford University Press Print Publication Date: Aug 2013 Print ISBN13: 9780199676538 Published online: Dec 2013 DOI: 10.1093/he/9780199676538.001.0001 Dedication Ilias Bantekas wishes to dedicate this book to Στέϕανος and μπέμπα for the immense joy they bring to his life. Efthymios Papastavridis wishes to dedicate this book to his mother, Vassileia, for her immeasurable love. Law Trove International Law Concentrate: Law Revision and Study Guide Ilias Bantekas and Efthymios Papastavridis Publisher: Oxford University Press Print Publication Date: Aug 2013 Print ISBN13: 9780199676538 Published online: Dec 2013 DOI: 10.1093/he/9780199676538.001.0001 Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the editorial and commissioning team at Oxford University Press, particularly Tom Young and Eleanor Chatburn who worked tirelessly and with meticulous dedication to see this work to fruition. IB is responsible for chapters 4–7 and 11–12, and EP for the rest. Law Trove International Law Concentrate: Law Revision and Study Guide Ilias Bantekas and Efthymios Papastavridis Publisher: Oxford University Press Print Publication Date: Aug 2013 Print ISBN13: 9780199676538 Published online: Dec 2013 DOI: 10.1093/he/9780199676538.001.0001 Table of cases A and ors v United Kingdom (2009) 49 EHRR 29 165–166, 170 Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in respect of Kosovo (Kosovo Declaration case), ICJ Advisory Opinion of 22 July 2010 13, 64, 68, 71 Advisory Opinion in Difference Relating to Immunity from Legal Process of a Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, ICJ Rep (1999), p 62 117 Aegean Continental Shelf Case (Greece v Turkey), Judgment, ICJ Rep (1978), p 3 131, 136 AIG Capital Partners Inc v Kazakhstan [2005] EWHC 2239 Comm 90 Air Service Agreement of 27 March 1946 between the USA and France (1978) 18 RIAA, 417 121 AlAdsani v United Kingdom, Application No 35763/97, EHHR 2001XI 12, 93, 96, 97 AlSaadoon and Mufdhi v United Kingdom, ECtHR Judgment (2 March 2010) 78 AlSkeini and ors v United Kingdom and Al Jeddah and ors v United Kingdom, ECtHR Judgments (7 July 2011) 78 AngloNorwegian Fisheries case (United Kingdom v Norway), ICJ Rep (1951), p 116 102, 103 AOI and ors v Westland Helicopters Ltd, 80 ILR (1988) 652 66 Apostolides v Orams [2010] 1 All ER (Comm) 992 69 Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v Serbia and Montenegro), ICJ Rep (2007), p 43 6–7, 118, 119, 126 Application of the Interim Accord of 13 September 1995 (the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia v Greece), ICJ Judgment of 5 December 2011 136 Arab Monetary Fund v Hashim (No 4) [1996] 1 Lloyds’s Rep 589 95 Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (New Application: 2002) (Democratic Republic of the Congo v Rwanda), Jurisdiction and Admissibility, Judgment, ICJ Rep (2006), p 6 11, 121 Arrest Warrant of 11 April 2000 (Democratic Republic of the Congo v Belgium), Preliminary Objections and Merits, Judgment, ICJ Rep (2002), p 3 25, 83, 92 Asylum case, Judgment, ICJ Rep (1950), p 266 22 AttorneyGeneral of Israel v Eichmann, 36 ILR (1962) 5 80 Bankovic and ors v Belgium (2001) 11 BHRC 435 169 Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Co Ltd, Judgment, ICJ Rep (1970), p 3 13 Belilos v Switzerland case (1988) Ser A, No 132, 10 EHHR 418 39 Boumediene v Bush (2008) 47 ILM 650 83 Bouzari v Islamic Republic of Iran (2004) 124 ILR 427 93 Brannigan and McBride v United Kingdom (1993) 17 EHRR 539 166 Buvot v Barbuit [1736] 3 Burr 2016 51 Caroline, The (1837) 149, 150, A7–A8 Case Concerning Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (Georgia v Russian Federation), Preliminary Objections, Judgment of 1 April 2011 136 Case Concerning Oil Platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v United States of America), Merits, Judgment, ICJ Rep (2003), p 803 37, 143, 148, 155 Case Concerning the difference between New Zealand and France arising from the Rainbow Warrior affair, UNRIAA, vol XX (1990), p 215 122 Case Concerning the Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (p. vii) (Cameroon v Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea intervening), Judgment, ICJ Rep (2002), p 303 43 Case Concerning Western Sahara, ICJ Advisory Opinion, ICJ Rep (1975), p 12 62 Case of SS Lotus (France v Turkey), PCIJ, Series A, No 10 (1927) 5, 21, 76, 82 Certain Activities carried out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v Nicaragua), Provisional Measures, Order of 8 March 2011 138 Certain Expenses of the UN Advisory Opinion, ICJ Rep (1962), p 151 65 Certain German Interests in Polish Upper Silesia, PCIJ, Series A, No 7 (1926), 4 49, 118 Certain Questions of Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (Djibouti v France), Judgment of 4 June 2008, para 39 137 Chung Chi Cheung v The King (1939) AC 160 51 Commission v Ireland (Mox Plant), ECJ, Case C459/03 [2006] ECR I4635 6 Corfu Channel case (United Kingdom v Albania), Judgment (Merits), ICJ Rep (1949), p 1 103, 104, 124, 146–147 Deutsche Continental Gas Gesselschaft v Poland (1929) 5 AD 11 68 Dispute Concerning Access to Information Under Article 9 of the OSPAR Convention (Mox Plant) (Ireland v United Kingdom), PCA, final award 2 July 2003 6 Dispute Regarding Navigational and Related Rights between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, Judgment, ICJ Rep (2009), p 213 37 Doe v Unocal (I) 963 F Supp 880 (CD Cal, 1997) 67 East Timor (Portugal v Australia), Judgment, ICJ Rep (1995), p 90 11 Emin v Yeldag [2002] 1 FLR 956 68–69, 69 F HoffmanLa Roche Ltd v Empagran SA, 124 S Ct 2359 (2004) 78 Factory at Chorzow case (Merits) PCIJ, Series A No 1 (1928) 25 123 Ferrini v Germany (2006) 128 ILR 658 89 Fisheries case (United Kingdom v Norway), Judgment, ICJ Rep (1951), p 116 23 Fisheries Jurisdiction cases (Federal Republic of Germany v Iceland), ICJ Rep (1974), p 175 105 Food and Agriculture Organisation v INPDAI (1995) 101 ILR 361 95 Free Zones of Upper Savoy and the District of Gex, PCIJ, Series ABCase No 46 (1932) 24 GabčíkovoNagymaros Project (Hungary v Slovakia), Judgment, ICJ Rep (1997), p 7 35, 42, 121, 122, 124, A4, A6 Genocide Convention Advisory Opinion, ICJ (1951) 38 Germany v Denmark and the Netherlands (North Sea Continental Shelf cases), ICJ Reports (1969), p 3 62 Germany v Italy (Greece intervening) (Jurisdictional Immunities of the State) ICJ Rep (2012) 12, 89, 96, 138 Gulf of Maine case, ICJ Rep (1984), p 246 109 Handyside v United Kingdom (1976) 1 EHRR 737 168, 170 Hesperides Hotels v Aegean Holidays [1978] 1 All ER 277 68, 69 HMT v Mohammed Jabar Ahmed and ors [2010] UKSC 2 & 5 53 I Congreso del Partido [1981] 3 WLR 328 90 Interhandel case (Switzerland v United States of America), ICJ Rep (1959) 137 JH Rayner (Mincing Lane) Ltd v Department of Trade and Industry (Tin Council cases) [1990] 2 AC 418 55 Jimenez v Aristeguieta (1962) 311 F 2d 547 91 Jones v Ministry of Interior AlMamlaka AlArabiya AS Saudiya [the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia] [2006] UKHL 26 81, 96 Joyce v Director of Public Prosecutions [1946] AC 347 79 (p. viii) Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v Council of the European Union [2008] ECR I6351 53 Keyn, Re [1876] 2 Ex D 63 51–52 Knuller v DPP [1973] AC 435 57 Kosovo Declaration 68 Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Co [1995] 1 WLR 1147 90 La Générale des Carriéres v FG Hemisphere Associates [2012] UKPC 27 91 LaGrand (Germany v United States of America) (Merits), Judgment, ICJ Rep (2001), p 466 49, 137–138, A7 Lawless v Ireland (1961) 1 EHRR 15 165 Legal Consequences of the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestine Territory, Advisory Opinion, ICJ Rep (2004), p 136 140 Legal Status of the Eastern Greenland case, PCIJ, Series ABCase No 37 (1933) 24 Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict, Advisory Opinion, ICJ Rep (1996), p 66 28, 136, 139, 143, 149, 150–151, 155 Libya v Malta Continental Shelf case (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v Malta), ICJ Rep (1985), p 13 105, 135 Liechtenstein v Guatemala (Second Phase) (Nottebohm case), ICJ Rep (1955), p 4 56 Loizidou v Turkey (1997) 23 EHRR 513 78, 169 ‘Lotus’ case see Case of SS ‘Lotus’ Luther v Sagor [1921] 3 KB 532 69 MacLaine Watson & Co Ltd v International Tin Council (Tin Council cases), 81 ILR 670 66 Manderlier v UN and Belgium (1969) 69 ILR 139 95 Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions (Qatar v Bahrain), Jurisdiction and Admissibility, ICJ Rep (1994), p 112 33 Maritime Delimitation in the Area between Greenland and Jan Majen (Denmark v Norway) (Jan Mayen case), ICJ Rep (1993), p 316 110 McKesson Corp v Islamic Republic of Iran, DC Cir, 28 Feb, 2012 91 Medellín v Texas 552 US 491 (2008) 54 Medvedyev and ors v France, Judgment of 29 March 2010 (Grand Chamber) (Application No 3394/03) 108–109 Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v United States of America), Merits, Judgment, ICJ Rep (1986), p 14 11, 25, 26, 27–28, 119, 143, 148, 149, 155, A3, A7 Molvan v Attorney General for Palestine [1948] AC 351 107 Monetary Gold removed from Rome in 1943 (Italy v United Kingdom, France and Germany), Judgment, ICJ Rep (1954), p 19 140 MOX Plant Case (Ireland v United Kingdom), provisional measures, ITLOS, Case No 10, 3 December 2001 6 Netherlands v United States of America (Palmas Islands Arbitration) (1928) 2 RIAA 829 76 North Sea Continental Shelf cases (Germany v Denmark and Netherlands), ICJ Rep (1969), p 3 21, 22, 23, 25– 26, 105, 110, 131, A3 Northern Cameroons, Judgment, ICJ Rep (1963), p 15 137 Nuclear Test case (Australia v France), Judgment, ICJ Rep (1974), p 253 26 Nuclear Tests (New Zealand v France), Judgment, ICJ Rep (1974), p 457 11 Nulyarimma v Thompson (2000) 39 ILM 20, Australian Federal Court 52 Parlement Belge, The (1880) 5 PD 197 54 Pinochet Ugarte (Appeal from the Divisional Court of the Queen’s Bench Division) [1998] 3 WLR 1456 79 Pocket Kings Ltd v Safenames Ltd [2009] EWHC 259 Ch 90 Polish Nationals in Danzig, PCIJ, Series A/B, No 44 (1931) 49 Prosecutor v Duško Tadić, International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Case (p. ix) IT94–1A (1999) 38(6) ILM (November 1999) 1518 7, 119 Prosecutor v Tadić, Appeals Decision on Jurisdiction (1996) 35 ILM 32 67 Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v Uruguay), Judgment, ICJ Rep (2010), p 14 124 Questions Relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v Senegal), Judgment of 20 July 2012 11, 125 R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No 3) (Pinochet case) [1999] UKHL 17; [2000] AC 147 25, 92, 93 R v Horseferry Road Magistrate’s Court, ex parte Bennett (1993) 3 All ER 138 82 R v Jones (Margaret) [2007] 1 AC 136 52, 57, 81 R v Secretary of State for Defence, ex parte AlJedda (2008) 47 ILM 611 56 R v the Secretary of State for Defence, ex parte AlSkeini and ors [2008] AC 153 78, 169 Red Crusader case (1962), 35 ILR 485 132 Reference re Secession of Quebec [1998] 2 SCR 217 64 Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations, Advisory Opinion, ICJ Rep (1949), p 174 65, 70, 117 Republic of Somalia v Woodhouse Drake and Carey (Suisse) SA [1993] QB 54 71 Request for interpretation of the Judgment of 15 June 1962 in the Case concerning the Temple of Preah Vihear (Cambodia v Thailand) (Cambodia v Thailand), Order of 18 July 2011 A7 Reservations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Advisory Opinion ICJ Rep (1951) 43, 166, 171, A4 Right of Passage over Indian Territory (Portugal v India), Merits, Judgment, ICJ Rep (1960) 22–23, 24, A3 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines v Guinea (The M/V Saiga), 4 December 1997, (1998) 37 ILM 369 106 Saramati v France and ors, 45 EHRR (2007) 10 95 Schooner Exchange v McFaddon, 7 Cranch 116 (1812, US Supreme Court) 88 Selmouni v France (2000) 29 EHRR 403 169, 171 Serbia v Belgium (Case Concerning the Legality of Use of Force), ICJ Rep (2004), p 279 143, 154 Societe Commerciale De Belgique (Belgium v Greece), 1939 PCIJ (ser A/B) No 78 (June 15) A6 South African Minister of Health v Treatment Action Campaign, 2002 (5) SA 721 164 SouthWestern African cases, Ethiopia and Liberia v South Africa, Judgment, ICJ Rep (1966) 137 Subhash Kumar v State of Bihar, AIR (1991) SC 420 164 Temple of Preah Vihear (Thailand v Cambodia), Merits, Judgment ICJ Rep (1962), p 17 40 Territorial and Maritime Dispute between Nicaragua and Honduras in the Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua v Honduras), ICJ Rep (2007), p 659 111 Territorial Dispute (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v Chad), Judgment, ICJ Rep (1994), p 6 36 Texaco v Libya and BP v Libya (1974) 53 ILR 329 67 Trendtex Trading Corporation v Central Bank of Nigeria [1977] 1 QB 529 51 Underhill v Hernandez (1897) 168 US 250 91 US Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran (United States of America v Iran), ICJ Rep (1980), p 3 94, 126, 135– 136 United States of America v Aluminium Co of America, 148 F 2d 416 (1945) 78 United States of America v AlvarezMachain (1992) 31 ILM 902 82 United States of America v MarinoGarcia (1982) 679 F 2d 1373 77 (p. x) United States of America v Yousef, 327 F 3d 56 (2nd Cir, 2003) 80 United States of America v Yunis, 681 F Supp 896 (1988) 83 United States of America v Yunis (No 3), 681 F Supp 896 (DC, 1988) 80 United States of America v Zehe, 601 F Supp 196 (D Mass, 1985) 80 Van Gend en Loos v Netherlands Inland Revenue Administration [1963] CMLR 105 66 Velásquez Rodríguez v Honduras, InterAmerican Court of Human Rights, Series C, No 4, (1988), ILR, vol 95, p 232 118 Waite and Kennedy v Germany (2000) 30 EHRR 261 95 Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v Japan), Request of New Zealand to intervene, ICJ, Order of 13 February 2013 138 Yassin Abdullah Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v Council and Commission (Joined Cases C 402/05 P and C415/05 P), Judgment of 3 September 2008 12, 57 Law Trove International Law Concentrate: Law Revision and Study Guide Ilias Bantekas and Efthymios Papastavridis Publisher: Oxford University Press Print Publication Date: Aug 2013 Print ISBN13: 9780199676538 Published online: Dec 2013 DOI: 10.1093/he/9780199676538.001.0001 Table of instruments Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation Between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America of 19 November 1794 (Jay Treaty) 133 Hague Convention of 29 July 1899 132 Covenant of the League of Nations of 28 June 1919 145 Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice of 16 December 1920 (PCIJ Statute) Art 38 19, 24 GermanPolish Convention relating to Upper Silesia of 15 May 1922 (1922 Geneva Convention) 124 General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy of 27 August 1928 (KelloggBriand Pact, Treaty of Paris) 145 General Act for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes of 26 September 1928 136 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States of 26 December 1933 61, 63, 68, 72 Art 1 62 Statute of the International Court of Justice of 26 June 1945 (ICJ Statute) 27, 131, 134 Art 35 135 Art 36(2) 29, 136, 141 Art 36(6) 137 Art 38 9, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 27, 29, 135 Art 38(1) 31 Art 38(1)(d) 24 Art 41 137, 138 Art 62 138, 140 Art 63 138 United Nations Charter of 26 June 1945 12, 27, 56, 64, 65, 75, 131, 134, 149, 154, 156, 158, 161 Ch VII 95, 108, 127, 143, 144, 147, 151, 152, 153, A7 Ch VIII 151, 153 Art 1(3) 159 Art 2(1) 4 Art 2(3) 129, 130 Art 2(4) 130, 143, 144, 145, 146–147, 148 Art 2(7) 147, 152, A7 Art 4 141 Art 24(1) A7 Art 25 26, 52 Art 33 129, 130 Art 39 151, 152, A7 Art 41 11, 151, 152 Art 42 145, 151, 152 Art 43 153 Art 51 25, 121, 143, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 154, 156, 157 Arts 55 and 56 159 Art 62 159 Art 62(2) 161 Art 92 134 Art 94(2) 139 Art 96(1) 139 Art 103 11, 12, 56, 159 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations of 13 February 1946 66, 95 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling of 2 December 1946 Art VIII 138 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialised Agencies of 21 November 1947 95 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 9 December 1948 (Genocide Convention) 38, 126, 166, 171, A4 Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 10 December 1948 (UDHR) 159, 161, 165 Geneva Conventions of 1949 81 European Convention on Human Rights of 4 November 1950 (ECHR) 55, 56, 95, 158, 159, 161, 166, 168, 169, A8 Art 5 109 Art 5(1) 56 Art 6 95 Art 15 165 Art 34 66 Art 64 39 International Tin Council Agreement of 1 March 1954 55 (p. xii) Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations and Consular Rights Between the United States of America and Iran of 15 August 1955 Art XX(1)(d) 37 United Nations Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery of 7 September 1956 (Supplementary Slavery Protocol) 163–164 Convention on the Continental Shelf of 29 April 1958 (Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf) 21, 106 Art 2(1) 105 Art 6 109, 110
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