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Volume 75 - July 1981

Contents

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Judicial Decisions

Current Developments

Judicial Decisions

Current Developments

Judicial Decisions

Current Developments

  • The Draft Code of Offences Against the Peace and Security of Mankind

  • Benjamin B. Ferencz
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 February 2017, pp. 674-679

  • At its session that ended in December 1980, the United Nations considered a subject that had been allowed to lie dormant for over a quarter of a century. It was first taken up in 1946, after President Truman called for the reaffirmation of “the principles of the Niirnberg Charter in the context of a general codification of offenses against the peace and security of mankind.” The General Assembly responded promptly by passing three resolutions in rapid succession on December 11, 1946, which created a Committee for the Progressive Development of International Law and its Codification, affirmed the Nuremberg principles, and declared that genocide was an international crime. The International Law Commission (ILC) was charged with preparing the desired Code of Offences after its establishment in 1947. Yet, 34 years after the General Assembly’s call for action, the refrain was still being heard: “The time is not yet ripe.” The question likely to face the United Nations when it reconvenes in 1981 will be: “If not now, when?”

Judicial Decisions

Current Developments

  • The 1980 French Law on Documents and Information

  • Brigitte Ecolivet Herzog
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 February 2017, pp. 382-386

  • On July 16, 1980, France passed a law forbidding the communication of economic, commercial, industrial, financial, or technical documents or information to foreign natural or legal persons. In doing so, France joined a growing number of nations in efforts to put an end to what they perceive as the “abusive” extraterritorial application of United States law.

Book Reviews and Notes

Judicial Decisions

Book Reviews and Notes

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