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Extradition in International Law
Extradition allows one State to surrender an accused or convicted person to another for prosecution or punishment. Its legality depends on treaties, domestic law, refusal grounds, human rights obligations, and, in some cases, duties to extradite or prosecute.
Diplomatic Protection in International Law
Diplomatic protection allows a State to invoke another State’s international responsibility for injury suffered by a protected national or legal person. Its operation depends on nationality of claims, exhaustion of local remedies, corporate protection rules, and the relationship between general international law and direct treaty-based remedies.
State Succession in International Law: Rules and Legal Effects
State succession raises difficult questions about what happens when one State replaces another in responsibility for a territory. This article examines continuity, treaty obligations, property, State debts, nationality, organizational membership, and State responsibility under international law.
State Recognition in International Law: Rules, Theories and Legal Effect
State recognition in international law determines how States accept and legally treat contested claims to statehood. This article examines the criteria of statehood, recognition theories, legal effects, non-recognition, withdrawal, UN membership, and cases including Kosovo, Palestine, Taiwan, and Northern Cyprus.
What Is International Criminal Law?
International Criminal Law governs individual criminal responsibility for crimes under international law. This article explains its sources, historical development, core crimes, modes of liability, ICC jurisdiction, immunities, national prosecutions, and the limits of international criminal justice.
Principle of Non-Intervention in International Law
The Principle of Non-Intervention in International Law protects States against coercive interference in matters they are legally entitled to decide freely. This article examines its customary basis, the coercion test, leading ICJ cases, economic pressure, elections, and cyber operations.
Exclusive Economic Zone Explained
The exclusive economic zone gives coastal states extensive rights over natural resources and specified activities without extending territorial sovereignty to 200 nautical miles. This article explains EEZ rights under UNCLOS, fisheries jurisdiction, navigation, offshore resources, islands, and maritime delimitation.
Law of the Sea Explained
The law of the sea regulates how states use, control, and share the oceans. This article explains UNCLOS, maritime zones, navigation rights, the exclusive economic zone, continental shelf, high seas, resource rights, and the settlement of maritime disputes.
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