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Acuerdo impuesto a Hungría el 4 de junio de 1920 por las fuerzas aliadas vencedoras en la I Guerra Mundial en el que se dictaminó la entrega de Eslovaquia y Rutenia a Checoslovaquia, Transilvania y el Banato Oriental a Rumanía, y Croacia y el Banato Occidental o Voivodina a Yugoslavia. …

El Tratado de Neuilly fue firmado el 27 de noviembre de 1919 en Neuilly-sur-Seine (Francia) entre Bulgaria y las potencias vencedoras en la Primera Guerra Mundial. De acuerdo con lo estipulado en el tratado, Bulgaria reconocía el nuevo Reino de Yugoslavia, pagaba 400 millones de dólares en concepto de indemnización …

El Tratado de Saint-Germain-en-Laye fue firmado el 10 de septiembre de 1919 entre las potencias aliadas y Austria. En este tratado se establecía el desmembramiento de la antigua monarquía de los Habsburgo, el Imperio Austrohúngaro, y Austria quedó limitada a algunas zonas en las que se hablaba solamente el alemán. …

‘Is torture ever justified?’: The European Court of Human Rights decision in Gäfgen v Germany Natasha Simonsen is a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. Previously, she worked as a consultant for UNICEF and has interned with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Pakistan. Earlier this month, the Grand Chamber …

June 28,1919 THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war by the prescription of open, just and honourable relations between nations by the firm …

The ICC and the Crime of Aggression: The Consent Problem and the Security Council Issue The first conference to the review the Statute of the International Criminal Court opens next week in Kampala Uganda. The major proposal to be considered at the conference will be proposals to amend the Statute so as …

Was Nuremberg a Violation of the Principle of Legality? This is, remarkably, the question raised by yesterday’s judgment of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Kononov v. Latvia, App. No. 36376/04. In short, the applicant was a former Soviet partisan convicted by a Latvian court …

Judgment of 20 April 2010 NEW Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) – Judgment of 20 April 2010 (656 Kb)Read more … Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) The Court finds that Uruguay has breached its procedural obligations to co-operate with Argentina and the …

Self-Defense and Non-State Actors: Indeterminacy and the Jus ad Bellum Self-defense in response to armed attacks by non-state actors is undoubtedly one of the most interesting – and controversial – issues in modern international law. It is of great practical relevance, as for instance, with the ongoing use of drones …

The Swiss Referendum on the Prohibition of Minarets  Anne Peters is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Basel, a position she has held since 2001. In the academic year 2004/05 she was Dean of the Faculty of Law. Prior to taking up the tenured post she was …

New Issue of EJIL [Vol 20 (3)] out The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law has been published and is available here and here. This is Issue 3 of Volume 20. Readers will remember that the current volume of EJIL celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Journal. …

The Honduran Crisis and the Turn to Constitutional Legitimism, Part II: The Pitfalls of Constitutional Legitimism In my previous post on this topic, I argued that the international reaction to the Honduran coup potentially augurs a shift in foundational norms governing the relationship between international and domestic legal authority.  I …