American Journal of International Law

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• Research Handbook on the Theory and Practice of International Lawmaking AI翻译
  作者：Teixeira, Rita Guerreiro; Wouters, Jan
  作者单位：KU Leuven
• United States Signs Agreement with the Taliban, but Prospects for Its Full Implementation Remain Uncertain AI翻译
  作者：[Anonymous]
• US Supreme Court Rules that Victims of State-Sponsored Terrorism Can Sue Foreign States for Retroactive Punitive Damages Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act AI翻译
  作者：[Anonymous]
• The Proof Is in the Process: Self-Reporting Under International Human Rights Treaties (vol 114, pg 1, 2020) AI翻译
  作者：Creamer, Cosette; Simmons, Beth
• Jadhav Case (India v. Pakistan) AI翻译
  作者：Kattan, Victor
  作者单位：Yale University
  摘要：Jadhav Case (India v. Pakistan) concerned Pakistan's arrest, detention, conviction, and death sentence of Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, asserted by India to be an Indian national, who had been convicted of engaging in acts of terrorism and espionage in Pakistan. This is the third dispute over the interpretation of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR) to come before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In contrast to the Applicants in the previous consular rights ca...
• Mukeshimana-Ngulinzira and Others v. Belgium and Others AI翻译
  作者：Ruys, Tom
  作者单位：Ghent University
  摘要：On April 11, 1994, approximately two thousand men, women, and children were brutally murdered by armed Hutu extremists after a group of Belgian UN peacekeepers abandoned the school facility where they had sought refuge upon the outbreak of the Rwandan genocide. Almost a quarter of a century later, the Brussels Court of Appeal (Court) on June 8, 2018 concluded the civil proceedings lodged by a number of Rwandan survivors and relatives against the Belgian commanding officers and the Belgian stat...
• Vedanta Resources Plc and Another v. Lungowe and Others AI翻译
  作者：Van Ho, Tara
  作者单位：University of Essex
  摘要：In Vedanta v. Lungowe, the United Kingdom Supreme Court determined that civil claims for negligence brought by Zambian claimants against an English parent company (Vedanta) and its Zambian subsidiary (Konkola Copper Mines plc (KCM)) for damages experienced in Zambia can proceed in English courts. While framed as a domestic tort law case, the decision is significant for international efforts aimed at holding businesses accountable for their negative impacts on human rights. Writing for a unanim...
• US Refusal to Appoint Members Renders WTO Appellate Body Unable to Hear New Appeals AI翻译
  作者：[Anonymous]
• The Proof Is in the Process: Self-Reporting Under International Human Rights Treaties AI翻译
  作者：Creamer, Cosette D.; Simmons, Beth A.
  作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Pennsylvania
  摘要：Recent research has shown that state reporting to human rights monitoring bodies is associated with improvements in rights practices, calling into question earlier claims that self-reporting is inconsequential. Yet little work has been done to explore the theoretical mechanisms that plausibly account for this association. This Article systematically documents-across treaties, countries, and years-four mechanisms through which reporting can contribute to human rights improvements: elite sociali...
• Prosecutor v. Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir, Judgment in the Jordan Referral re Al-Bashir Appeal AI翻译
  作者：Mudukuti, Angela
  摘要：In 2009, the International Criminal Court (ICC) stepped into uncharted waters as it issued its first arrest warrant for a sitting head of state, then President of Sudan Omar Al-Bashir. Following the UN Security Council's referral of the situation in the Darfur region of Sudan to the ICC, Al-Bashir was charged by the Court with war crimes and crimes against humanity, and in 2010, he was also charged with genocide. As a consequence, all of the states parties to the Rome Statute had a duty to arr...