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The parties to the Statute have agreed to give third states the right to accept the jurisdiction of the Court. The recent decision of the Prosecutor to reject the Article 12(3) Declaration of the...
11 years 51 weeks

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Where is the documentation showing the British and/or the Palestinians, signed off on the Palestinian state? The British signed-off when they asked the UN to terminate the mandate and refused to...
11 years 51 weeks

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Hi Souheir, The rules by which States are granted permission to deposit treaty instruments after joining one of the UN specialized agencies, like UNESCO, are contained in The Summary of Practice of...
12 years 20 weeks

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Danterzian, I thought that all of Ms. Herzberg's arguments were unconvincing. *The “principles of international law recognized in the Charter of the Nürnberg Tribunal...
12 years 51 weeks

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Carlile you said To be recognized as a state under international law, an entity has to be sovereign: It needs a defined territory and a permanent population under the control of its own government...
13 years 1 week

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danterzian, I believe that Professor Quigley is correct. In 2004 the General Assembly adopted a resolution, A/RES/58/292, on the status of the Occupied Palestinian territory which noted that...
13 years 2 weeks

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The United States is not a State party to the Rome Statute. I was just illustrating some points made by Professor Quigley - that the United States had recognized the State of Palestine in accordance...
13 years 2 weeks

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danterzian, You are describing the doctrine of the retroactivity of recognition. It is an accepted practice in the foreign relations law of many countries including the US and the UK. Chapter 13 of...
13 years 2 weeks

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Ti-Chiang Chen's classic "The International Law of Recognition:With Special Reference to Practice In Great Britain and United States has a chapter on the Laws of Recognition of Belligerency and...
13 years 2 weeks

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Your proposition "to relocate the academic debate from international law to the legal boundaries provided for solely by the Rome Statute" seems completely unworkable and artificial to me. The legal...
13 years 3 weeks

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If you check the documents section of this article, you'll find that Palestine is a full member of the League of Arab States and enjoys treaty and diplomatic relations with Egypt. In 1950 the US...
13 years 3 weeks