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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY LAW of PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW SUPPPLEMENT 2011-2012 Spring 2012 Professor Karen Knop Faculty of Law University of Toronto The materials reproduced herein are for the education use of students at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law only and are not for commercial sale or use. 64 . K66 2011 c. 1 BORA USWNUW LIBRARY JAN - A 2012 LAW FACULTY OF UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY LAW of PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW SUPPPLEMENT 2011-2012 Spring 2012 Professor Karen Knop Faculty of Law University of Toronto The materials reproduced herein are for the education use of students at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law only and are not for commercial sale or use. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from University of Toronto https://archive.org/details/publicinternatio00knop_1 TABLE OF CONTENTS OVERVIEW Example: Office of International Religious Freedom Statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada to United Nations General Assembly (NY, 26 September 2011) 1 New 'religious freedom' office raises questions (CBC, 3 October 2011) 3 International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (US) 4 Tracing the Evolution of International Law Through Two Problems From Jeffrey L Dunoff, Steven R Ratner & David Wippman, International Law: Norms, Actors, Process. A Problem-Oriented Approach, 3rd ed (2010) ch 1 The Chad-Libya War Over the Aouzou Strip 15 The Rainbow Warrior Affair 29 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSONS States and Statehood Statehood, Recognition and UN Membership Palestinian Entity’s bid for UN Membership 46 Canada-Quebec Agreement concerning UNESCO 47 Libya 50 Self-Determination Right of Secession? ICJ Advisory Opinion on Kosovo 53 Independence of the Republic of South Sudan 55 Georgia v Russia 57 li Sub-State and Non-State Actors UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 59 Canada and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 70 Inuit to Appeal Court Decision on EU Ban on Canadian Seal Products 72 Tlicho Agreement, part 7.13 http://mvlwb.com/iiles/2011/07/Tlicho-Agreement.pdf 73 Gib van Ert & Stefan Matiation, “Labour Conventions and Comprehensive Claims Agreements: A new Model for Sub-Federal Participation in Canadian International Treaty-Making” in Oonagh E Fitzgerald, The Globalized Rule of Law: Relationships between International and Domestic Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2006) 203 at 230-232 75 Corporations 76 CREATION AND ASCERTAINMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Treaties Canadian policy on tabling treaties 77 Other Sources of Law? Stefan Talmon, ‘The Security Council as World Legislature’ (2005) 99 AJIL 175 82 Note: Al Jedda v United Kingdom 86 NATIONAL APPLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Customary International Law in Canada Hape and Customary International Law in Canada 88 Local Foreign Policy? Michael Taggart, “Globalization, ‘Local’ Foreign Policy, and Administrative Law” in Grant Huscroft & Michael Taggart, eds, Inside and Outside Canadian Administrative Law: Essays in Honour of David Mullan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006) 260 103 in Treaties in Canada Nemeth v Canada (Justice) 116 Security Council Resolutions Abdelrazik 125 STATE IMMUNITIES Update on Bouzari 132 Kuwait Airways v Iraq 133 State Immunity: Still No Human Rights Exception in Canadian Law (Kazemi) 136 Steen v Iran 137 Safe Streets and Communities Act 145 NATIONALITY War same v Canada 146 Nystrom, and Turner v. Australia (excerpt from dissent) 151 PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ICCPR and Canada 153 Extraterritorial Effect of Human Rights Canada (Prime Minister) v Khadr 155 Amnesty Canada International v Chief of Defence Staff 158 Marko Milanovic, “Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda in Strasbourg” (forthcoming) available at http://papers.ssm.com/sol3/papers.cfm7abstract id=l 917395 160 IV USE OF FORCE Humanitarian Intervention Cote d’Ivoire 174 Libya 174 INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW Piracy Eugene Kontorovich, “Piracy and International Law” 179 UN Counter-Piracy Programme 184 v