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It has been over 50 years since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. It is estimated that there are over 600,000 Israeli settlers living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and they are supported, protected, and maintained by the Israeli state. This book discusses whether international criminal law could apply to those responsible for allowing and promoting this growth, and examines what this application would reveal about the operation of international criminal law. It provides a comprehensive analysis of how the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court could apply to the settlements in the West Bank through a close examination of the potential operation of two relevant Statute crimes: first, the war crime of transfer of population; and second, the war crime of unlawful appropriation of property. It also addresses the threshold question of whether the law of occupation applies to the West Bank, and how the principles of individual criminal responsibility might operate in this context. It explores the relevance and coherence of the legal arguments relied on by Israel in defence of the legality of the settlements and considers how these arguments might apply in the context of the Rome Statute. The work also has wider aims, raising questions about the Rome Statute's capacity to meet its aim of establishing a coherent and legally effective system of international criminal justice.

AbstractThe International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Criminal Court are two very different entities that simultaneously apply international humanitarian law but do so after their own perspectives. This article proposes a cautious yet critical approach to some of their divergent interpretations (conflict classification, the difference between direct and active participation in hostilities, intra-party sexual and gender-based violence, and the notion of attack) and examines how the broader legal system copes with these points of divergence. The analysis considers the institutional characteristics of these two organizations and the pluralistic nature of international humanitarian law as well as its dynamic rapport with international criminal law in order to highlight the versatility needed to face the challenges posed by contemporary armed conflicts.

Introduction to International contracting -- Principles of contract drafting -- Common international contract clauses -- The documentary transaction -- National laws affecting international contracts -- International sales contract -- International sales law : convention on contracts for the International sale of goods -- General principles of service contracting -- Agency and distribution agreements -- Intellectual property licensing -- Joint ventures, franchising, and long-term contracts -- Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements -- Post-contract : continuing rights and obligations -- Electronic contracting

A review article of Bruce L. Smith & Chitra M. Smith, IN- TERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND POLITICAL OPINION: A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE (Princeton U Press), & concludes: a productive model & a constructive theory of international communications may never come; they will certainly not come until after a great deal of rather elementary spade-work has been undertaken. In spite of sophisticated & expensive foreign area inventories, we have not available the kinds of succinct knowledge of audiences which is essential to communication. We need studies about the specific preoccupations, predispositions & values of people in foreign nations, & a careful breakdown of such data in terms of their rank order or urgency & importance among diff SE, ecological, & ethnic groups. We need it not only about the vast regions of Asia & Africa, but we would well be advised to re-assay what we believe to know about the people of Western & Central Europe, who are no less involved in the world-wide shifts of traditional values, predispositions, & major concerns. AA-IPSA.