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Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [MPEiPro]

Anti-Slave Trade Mixed Commissions and Courts

Adriane Sanctis de Brito

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [MPEiPro]
Article last updated:
August 2024

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 13 January 2025

Subject(s):
Freedom from slavery or forced labour — Enslavement and forced labour — Piracy — Nationality of ships — Prompt release — Treaties, application — Mixed Claims Commissions

Published under the direction of Hélène Ruiz Fabri, with the support of the Department of International Law and Dispute Resolution, under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law.

1 The Anti-Slave Trade Mixed Commissions or Mixed Courts (Mixed Commissions; Mixed Claims Commissions) refer to adjudicative bodies installed in Freetown (Sierra Leone), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Paramaribo (Surinam), Havana (Cuba), New York (United States), Luanda (Angola), the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), Boa Vista (Cape Verde Islands), and Spanish Town (Jamaica). They were established under bilateral treaties signed by Great Britain (‘Britain’) with Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, the United States, Brazil, Chile, the Argentinian Confederation, Uruguay,...
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