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Legal Obligations of Signatories and Parties to Treaties
In judging different moot court competitions during the past two months, I have noticed several competitors did not understand the difference between signatories and parties to a treaty. This posting provides a brief overview of when a treaty is legally binding upon a State and a few examples.
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Comparison of the ICJ and the ICC
This blog post compares the International Court of Justice (ICJ) with the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is part of a series of background material on international law.
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What is R2P and the Responsibility to Protect?
This post is part of a series of background material on international law and answers frequently asked questions about the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).
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What is international law?
This post is part of a series of background material on international law and answers frequently asked questions about what constitutes international law and sources of international law.
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United Nations Courts and Tribunals
The following courts and tribunals detailed on this page are either administered by or have an operational relationship with the United Nations:
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Return of the StateThis article is the extended address by José E. Alvarez, the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at New York University School of Law, at the University of Minnesota Law School's conference on "International Economic Law in a Time of Change." Alvarez relects upon and rebuts a collection of papers on supra-nationalism presented at the conference. He argues that states, as sovereign entities, are making a comeback. The full-text is available online for free.
Whither Justice? Uganda and Five Years of the International Criminal Court Michael Drexler argues that the International Criminal Court is pursuing an inappropriate engagement strategy in Uganda by ignoring the impacts of criminal prosecution and investigation on the prospects for peace to the country's decades-long conflict. It is published by the peer-reviewed Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law (IJHRL) and is available online for free.


