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Supreme Court Preview: The Samantar Case and the Immunity of Foreign Government Officials
... non-commercial torts, certain acts of state-sponsored terrorism, expropriations, and enforcement of arbitral agreements and awards. ...
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Pre-emptive Action to Forestall Terrorism
... be taken literally. Clearly, the threat of large-scale terrorism with weapons of mass destruction was not foreseen when the Charter ... limitation on the use of self-help in an age of large scale terrorism, customary international law has supplied its own limitations on ...
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September 11 Inspired Aviation Counter-Terrorism Convention and Protocol Adopted
... Organization ("ICAO"), adopted two new aviation counter-terrorism instrumentsâthe Beijing Convention, replacing the Convention on ... 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and developments in counter-terrorism law over recent decades. The Beijing Convention provides for key new ...
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Some Proportionality Issues Raised by Israel's Use of Armed Force in Lebanon
... East and North Africa Territorial Disputes Terrorism Use of Force, and International Humanitarian Law ...
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International Law and the Report of the High-Level U.N. Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change
... community has yet to agree on a universal definition of terrorism. Recognizing this fact, the Panel recommended that the U.N. General Assembly adopt a consensus definition of terrorism based on the definitions contained in the 1999 International ...
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The Internet, Human Rights, and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Global Online Freedom Act of 2012
... [25] or designation of countries as state sponsors of terrorism. [26] (3) Export Controls GOFA proposes amending U.S. ... [26] U.S. Dept. of State, State Sponsors of Terrorism, http://www.state.gov/j/ct/c14151.htm (describing Secretary of ...
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D.C. Circuit Upholds Constitutionality of Military Commissions Act Withdrawal of Federal Habeas Jurisdiction for Guantanamo Detainees
... be a member of al Qaeda or someone who engaged in or plotted terrorism against the U.S. [4] In early 2002, the first detainees from ... in the treatment of U.S. citizen detainees in the war on terrorism [17] ), the Executive created in July 2004 a Combatant Status ...
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United States Charges and Proceedings Against Two Guantanamo Detainees for Conspiracy to Commit Crimes Associated with Armed Conflict
... destruction of property by an unprivileged belligerent; and terrorism, said conduct being in the context of and associated with armed ... destruction of property by an unprivileged belligerent, and terrorism--do not expressly appear in the Geneva Conventions or in the Statutes ...
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MH17 and the Missile Threat to Aviation
... national laws enacted to curb the threat of catastrophic terrorism. For example, under United States law, it is illegal to transfer, ... Convention on the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, Apr. 13, 2005, 2445 U.N.T.S. 89. See generally Matthew Bunn, ...
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Saadi v Italy: European Court of Human Rights Reasserts the Absolute Prohibition on Refoulement in Terrorism Extradition Cases
... party intervener) claimed that the climate of international terrorism called into question the appropriateness of the ECtHR's existing ... its existing jurisprudence and noted that involvement in terrorism did not affect an individual's absolute rights under Article 3. ...
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