International Decisions
In: American journal of international law, Band 108, Heft 1
ISSN: 0002-9300
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In: American journal of international law, Band 108, Heft 1
ISSN: 0002-9300
In: Proceedings of the annual meeting / American Society of International Law, Band 108, S. 503
ISSN: 2169-1118
In: American journal of international law, Band 107, Heft 4
ISSN: 0002-9300
In: American journal of international law, Band 107, Heft 2
ISSN: 0002-9300
In: International legal materials: ILM, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 44-53
ISSN: 1930-6571
On July 7, 2011, the United States Supreme Court declined to stay the execution of Humberto Leal García, a Mexican national who had been convicted some sixteen years ago in Texas of murder.1 Relying on the decision of the International Court of Justice (''ICJ'') in the Avena case,2 García contended that the United States had violated his right to consular notification and access under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (''Consular Convention'').3 He sought the stay so that the U.S. Congress could consider enactment of proposed legislation to implement the ICJ decision.4 In a 5-4 decision, the Court rejected his argument, stating that ''[t]he Due Process Clause does not prohibit a State from carrying out a lawful judgment in light of unenacted legislation that might someday authorize a collateral attack on that judgment.''5 García was executed by lethal injection that evening.
In: American journal of international law, Band 106, Heft 4
ISSN: 0002-9300
The U.S. Supreme Court decided in Samantar v. Yousuf that claims of immunity by individual foreign officials in U.S. courts will be determined not under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act but instead under the common law, drawing on principles of international law. The 2004 UN Convention on the Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Properties represents the most recent and comprehensive international thinking on the question of jurisdictional immunities of foreign states and their officials in foreign courts. Under the Convention, individual representatives of a state acting in that capacity are entitled to the same immunities as the state itself. This Article examines the relevant provisions of the Convention and related decisional law.
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In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 104, Heft 4, S. 688-692
ISSN: 2161-7953
In: Proceedings of the annual meeting / American Society of International Law, Band 104, S. 301-302
ISSN: 2169-1118
In: American journal of international law, Band 104, Heft 4, S. 688-692
ISSN: 0002-9300
In: Agenda internacional / Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, IDEI-PUCP, Band 16, Heft 27, S. 255-268
ISSN: 2311-5718
In: International legal materials: ILM, Band 47, Heft 6, S. 839-857
ISSN: 1930-6571
In: International legal materials: ILM, Band 47, Heft 5, S. 814-823
ISSN: 1930-6571
In: International legal materials: ILM, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 813-858
ISSN: 1930-6571
Among his many other significant accomplishments and career achievements, Professor Maier can count a singular experience which few in the field of international law are privileged to enjoy-that of spending a year as the Counselor on International Law at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. The Counselor occupies a senior position within the Office of the Legal Adviser. Organizationally, the incumbent reports to and works directly with the Legal Adviser and his Deputies in advising the Secretary of State and other senior officials on whatever fast-moving issues might occupy the foreign policy attention of the government at a given moment. Normally drawn from the ranks of the most gifted and respected up-and-coming academics in public international law, Counselors have in practice also served another important function-bringing fresh ideas and intellectual perspectives into the process of providing legal advice and counsel to the Department as a whole. In that regard, they have traditionally served as a valuable resource for the attorney advisers and Assistant Legal Advisers in the Office.
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