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Contents
- Preliminary Material
- Foreword
- Table of Contents
- Table of Cases
- International and Regional
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- European Court of Human Rights and European Commission of Human Rights
- European Union
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- International Arbitration
- International Court of Justice
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- International Criminal Tribual for the Former Yugoslavia
- International Labour Organisation Administrative Tribunal
- Nuremberg International Military Tribunal
- Permanent Court of International Justice
- UN Human Rights Committee
- UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon
- World Trade Organisation
- Domestic
- Albania
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Benin
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Dominican Republic
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Gambia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Kenya
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Luxembourg
- Macao
- Malawi
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Senegal
- Serbia and Montenegro
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Turkey
- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- International and Regional
- Table of International Legal Instruments
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Main Text
- 1 General Aspects
- 2 Statehood and Recognition
- 3 Jurisdiction
- 4 Immunities of States and their Officials
- I Introduction
- II Immunity as a Rule of International or National Law, and the Impact of Domestic Immunity Legislation
- III State Immunity
- IV Personal Immunity
- V Functional Immunity and Consular Immunity
- VI Tension between Immunity Rules and Fundamental Rights under Domestic Constitutional Law or International Human Rights and Criminal Law
- VII Conclusion
- 5 International Organizations
- I Introduction
- II The Domestic Legal Personality of International Organizations
- III The Legal Basis of the Immunities of International Organizations
- IV The Scope of Immunities of International Organizations
- V The Balancing of Immunities with Access to Justice Concerns
- VI Responsibility of International Organizations
- VII Conclusion
- 6 The Law of Treaties
- 7 Customary International Law
- 8 Jus Cogens
- 9 Soft Law
- 10 Enforcement of Decisions of International Courts at the National Level
- 11 International Responsibility
- I Introduction
- II State Responsibility and Domestic Law
- III Attribution
- IV Aid and Assistance
- V Responsibility of States and of International Organizations
- VI Domestic Courts and the State of Necessity: The Argentina Debt Crisis
- VII State Responsibility and Extradition
- VIII State Responsibility and State Succession
- IX Conclusion
- 12 Use of Force
- 13 International Humanitarian Law
- 14 Terrorism
- 15 Substantive International Criminal Law
- 16 Amnesties
- I Introduction
- II The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American System on Amnesty Laws
- III The Interaction between International and Domestic Courts in Applying the Principles of Accountability
- 1 The permanent nature of the crime of forced disappearance
- 2 The direct application of international human rights law by domestic courts
- 3 The application of international humanitarian law and the grave breaches provisions
- 4 Gross human rights violations as crimes against humanity under customary law and the jus cogens obligation to prosecute them
- 5 The duty to investigate and prosecute in cases of ‘fraudulent res judicata’
- 6 The duty to investigate and prosecute and the proportionality of the punishment
- IV Conclusion
- 17 Economic and Social Rights