American Journal of International Law

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American Society of International Law
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Vol. 102 Nbr. 1, January 2008

Annex VII arbitration under UN Convention on the Law of the Sea - interstate dispute over territorial sea, exclusive economic zone, and continental shelf boundaries - primacy of equidistance method - circumstances justifying other methods - scope of duty to reach interim agreements and not to jeopardize or hinder final agreements - implications for hydrocarbon exploration.

Army snipers acquitted of murder charges in killings of Iraqis using disputed tactics.

Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law.

Book review

Claims of Dual Nationals and the Development of Customary International Law: Issues Before the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal.

Book review

Congressional initiative to deem killings of Armenians as genocide stalls in house.

Continued U.S. Navy operations against pirates off Somalia.

Continuing U.S. and multilateral efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program.

Customary international law - state jurisdiction - extraterritorial enforcement -international investigations - presumption of conformity with international law - Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - reception of custom in domestic law.

Der offene Bundesstaat: Studien zur auswartigen Gewalt und zur Volkerrechtssubjektivitat bundesstaatlicher Teilstaaten in Europa.

Book review

Developments relating to continued detentions at Guantanamo Bay.

Digest of United States Practice in International Law, 2005.

Book review

European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms - assisted reproductive technologies - reproductive freedom - frozen embryos - right to life - right to respect for private life - gender equality - margin of appreciation.

Horizontal human rights law.

International Court of Justice - title to insular territory - maritime delimitation -equidistance and angle bisector delimitation methods - third-state interests - UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Article 15 special circumstances.

International Law and Organization: Closing the Compliance Gap.

Book review

Japan-China Joint Communique of 1972 - San Francisco Peace Treaty Article 14(b) - individual victims of Japanese wartime forced labor and sexual slavery - World War II restorative justice - denial of right to compensation in domestic litigation.

Law of the Sea Treaty reported out of committee: timing and prospects for full Senate action unknown.

Ninth Circuit bars suit against Caterpillar for selling bulldozers to the Israeli Defense Forces.

Ninth Circuit finds Vienna Convention on Consular Relations does not establish rights enforceable under U.S. civil rights law.

Nondiscrimination in trade and investment treaties: worlds apart or two sides of the same coin?

Possible looming conflict with EU regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from civil aviation: United States prefers ICAO action.

International Civil Aviation Organization

Second circuit issues divided ruling on 'aiding and abetting' rights violations.

Secret justice department memos said to sanction 'severe' interrogation tactics.

The ILO convention on freedom of association and its future in the United States.

International Labour Organization

The Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at 25: The Cases Everyone Needs to Know for Investor-State and International Arbitration.

Book review

The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict.

Book review

The Rights of Refugees Under International Law.

Book review

United States and Canada arbitrate a softwood lumber dispute in the London Court of International Arbitration.

United States and Iraq establish principles for future relationship, agree to negotiate implementing agreements during 2008.

United States and Russia reaffirm support for INF treaty.

United States imposes new economic sanctions on several countries.

United States ratifies Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption.

United States supports expedited accelerate phase-out of HCFCs.

Hydrochlorofluorocarbons

U.S. Congress and administration consider responses to excessive uses of force by U.S. security firms.

U.S. efforts to identify and deport human rights abusers.

U.S. environmental regulation - standing of U.S. state to petition Environmental Protection Agency for rulemaking - parens patriae - injury caused by climate change - EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases.

U.S. policy regarding landmines.

U.S. positions in international climate change negotiations.

U.S. state governments join international carbon action partnership on global cap-and-trade carbon markets.

William D. Rogers (1927-2007).

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