Denver Journal of International Law and Policy articles from August 1998

Denver Journal of International Law and Policy archives from August 1998

Political dispute resolution by the World Court, with reference to United States courts.
August 6, 1998... Nobody seems to argue that the political branches of the United States government should refrain from taking any action that might embarrass the courts in their administration of justice. Yet the political question doctrine that counsels...

Domestic influence of the International Court of Justice.
August 6, 1998... Over fifty years ago, the International Court of Justice (I.C.J.) was created to provide advisory opinions for various U.N. entities and to decide certain state-to-state disputes.(1) Advisory opinions, as the phrase suggests, were to be merely...

The status of customary international law in U.S. courts - before and after Erie.
August 6, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION The greatest weakness of international human rights law may be the lack of an effective enforcement mechanism. There is, to date, no general international criminal court. The jurisdiction of existing international...

Tragedies in Somalia, Yugoslavia, Haiti, Rwanda and Liberia - revisiting the validity of humanitarian intervention under international law.(part 2)
August 6, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION In part I of this article,(1) Professor Ved Nanda presented a framework for determining the validity of unilateral humanitarian intervention under international law. The framework was based on an analysis of selected cases...

Resolving North America's environmental disputes.
August 6, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION Seventeen years ago John E. Carroll and Newell B. Mack analyzed the then-current status of environmental protection mechanisms used between Canada and the United States.(1) They criticized the ad hoc nature of North...

The Spratly Islands dispute and the law of the sea.
August 6, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which went into effect on November 16, 1994, designates the Earth's ocean areas as being part of the common heritage of mankind, and sets forth the goals of finding...

An update on: Self-Determination and Humanitarian Intervention in a Community of Power by James A.R. Nafziger.(response to articles in this journal, 1991, 1994)
August 6, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION This update focuses on two articles written by James A.R. Nafziger for the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy. The initial article is entitled Self-Determination and Humanitarian Intervention in a Community of...