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What are "a state's natural persons"?
I'm not asking about the definition of "natural person." I'm asking about the definition of the relationship between the state and the person that justifies the use of the grammatical ...
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Belgium's historical Charter for indefinite access to UK waters
In 1666 King Charles II issued the Fisheries Privilege Charter granting 50 fishermen from the city of Bruges ‘eternal access’ to British waters, and the EU are now trying to 'grandfather' this treaty. ...
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Can a citizen be denied access to their own country?
With decades of international treaties covering refugees, asylum, diplomats, espionage, and countless other interesting and relevant topics to international politics, is there any international treaty ...
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Does violating an international treaty have any legal consequence in United States?
I'm asking in general and also specifically in the example I'm going to show. In my country, international treaties have constitutional level since 1994, which means a violation of an international ...
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International law vs Treaty vs International agreement
What is the difference between International law, treaty and international agreement?
What are the consequences if one country fails to obey international law or fails to meet obligations?are they ...
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Which countries grant extraterritoriality to US citizens?
Some countries have ceded, to the United States, some control in the application of their own laws within their own borders.
A historical example would be the Treaty of Wanghia, signed with China in ...
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Does anything in international law limit a country's ability to recognize secession governments?
In 1903, Panama separated from Colombia. Colombia tried to forcefully retake Panama, but Panama quickly allied with the U.S. which easily prevented the reunification. Some view this as the U.S. ...
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Vienna Convention on Road Traffic(1968) Letters Only Vehicle Registration Plate
There is a large media scandal in Romania about a car that had a preferential number from another country. According to police, the number was illegal because was having letters only and no digits so ...
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What are the implications of the Good Friday Agreement for customs controls?
After the Good Friday Agreement was concluded, customs and security controls between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom were removed (From Wikipedia). The Irish border is one of the major ...
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Who is to enforce the UDHR and the Charter of the UN?
Who is to enforce the Charter of the United Nations and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ? The governments or the citizens of the member countries?
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Does the Geneva Convention on Road Traffic prohibit driverless cars?
The 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, which the United States and several other countries have ratified, states the following (emphasis added):
Chapter II, Article 8, Section 1 (reprinted in ...
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Are there international treaties preventing states from taxing property transfers out of it?
With the goal of discouraging companies and high net worth individuals from leaving the country to save taxes by taxing wealth leaving the country by a multiple of the taxes due per year if they ...
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Legality of agreement between countries
How can a contract be established and enforced if the parties are countries?
There is nothing in perpetuity, how can contract negotiated by fathers bear upon children. Can not children defy contract ...
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What consequences are there for use of chemical weapons under the Chemical Weapons Convention and related treaties?
What consequences are there for use of chemical weapons under the CWC and related treaties?
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What's the difference between signing and ratifying a treaty?
Am I right in believing that ratification refers to local enforcement of a treaty, upon signing it?
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