General Rules Of International Law Research Articles

European Human Rights Convention Case.

International Law — Relation to Municipal Law — European Convention for Protection of Human Rights — Rules of Procedure Contained in the Convention — Whether those Rules of Procedure Binding on Municipal Courts — The Law of Germany.Individual in International Law — Human Rights and Freedoms — European Convention for Protection of — How Far Part of Law of Signatory States.Treaties — Operation of — Relation to Municipal Law — Municipal Law Providing that General Rules of International Law shall Form Part of Municipal Law — Whether General Rules of International Law Include Treaties — European Convention for Protection of Human Rights, 1950 — Whether Part of German Law.

The Nuremberg Trial and the International Law of the Future

Among the most controversial features of the Nuremberg Trial have been the repeated efforts of the Allied Powers to prove that the law created by the London Agreement and the Charter of the International Military Tribunal attached to this Agreement was but declaratory of already existing rules of general international law, and that the verdict of the Tribunal, apart from its immediate purpose of retribution, must be considered as the first attempt in history to establish a legal precedent destined to act as a powerful deterrent against possible future resort to illegal war. The Final Report on the Nuremberg Trial, submitted by the American Representative to the President of the United States, reiterates these dominant ideas by declaring: “The four nations, through their prosecutors and through their representatives on the Tribunal, have enunciated standards of conduct … by which the Germans have been condemned” and which “will become the condemnation of any nation that is faithless to them.” Moreover, this document emphasizes what is termed “the power of the precedent” by asserting that “no one can hereafter deny or fail to know that the principles on which the Nazi leaders are adjudged to forfeit their lives constitute law—and law with a sanction.”

Extradition (Jurisdiction) Case.

State Succession — Treaties — Extradition Treaties — Treaties Concluded by German States prior to the Abolition of the Federal System in 1934.Extradition — In General — Right of the Accused to Challenge the Legality of the Extradition before the Courts of the Requesting State — Prescription — Whether a General Rule of International Law — Extradition Treaties — State Succession.

Rural District Council of Guttentag v. P.

80State Succession — Effect of Partition of Territory on Liability for Private Debts of Administrative Authorities — Application of General Rules of International Law — Proportion of Distribution