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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Satisfaction

Cristina Hoss

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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 Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
April 2011

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 25 March 2023

Subject(s):
Foreign relations law — Responsibility of states — Remedies — Reparations

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 In general public international law, the term ‘satisfaction’ describes a particular form of reparation in the law of State responsibility. This particular reparation is deemed to repair immaterial damages—as opposed to material damages—caused by an internationally wrongful act, since ‘full reparation’ is a principle that has long been recognized.2 Full reparation was described in the following terms by the Permanent Court of International Justice in the case concerning the Factory at Chorzow:The essential principle contained in the actual notion of an illegal...
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