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Volume 99 - July 2005

Contents

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International Decisions

General International and U.S. Foreign Relations Law

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

International Decisions

Notes and Comments

State Diplomatic and Consular Relations

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

International Decisions

General International and U.S. Foreign Relations Law

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

Notes and Comments

General International and U.S. Foreign Relations Law

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

Notes and Comments

International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

International Human Rights and International Criminal Law

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

Current Developments

  • The UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property

  • David P. Stewart
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 February 2017, pp. 194-211

  • On December 2, 2004, the UN General Assembly adopted the UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property. Capping more than a quarter of a century of intense international negotiation, the new treaty is the first modern multilateral instrument to articulate a comprehensive approach to issues of state or sovereign immunity from suits in foreign courts. Notably, it embraces the so-called restrictive theory of sovereign immunity, under which governments are subject to essentially the same jurisdictional rules as private entities in respect of their commercial transactions. The treaty was opened for signature on January 17, 2005 (when Austria and Morocco became the first states to sign), and will enter into force when thirty states have deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval, or accession with the UN secretary-general.

International Human Rights and International Criminal Law

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

State Diplomatic and Consular Relations

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

Current Developments

  • The Fifty-Sixth Session of the International Law Commission

  • Michael J. Matheson
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 February 2017, pp. 211-221

  • The International Law Commission held its fifty-sixdi session in Geneva from May 3 to June 4, and from July 5 to August 6, 2004, under the chairmanship of Teodor Melescanu of Romania. The Commission completed its first reading of draft principles on international liability for transboundary harm and draft articles on diplomatic protection, which have now been submitted for comment by states with a view to their completion in 2006. The Commission also continued its work on reservations to treaties, responsibility of international organizations, unilateral acts of states, fragmentation of international law, and shared natural resources. In addition, the Commission decided to start work next year on the effect of armed conflict on treaties and the expulsion of aliens, and to recommend adding a new topic—the obligation to prosecute or extradite—to its long-term program. The following is a summary of where each topic stands and what issues are likely to be most prominent at the Commission's 2005 session.

State Jurisdiction and Immunities

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

International Human Rights and International Criminal Law

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

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