international law

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is one of the constituent organs of the United Nations system.  According to Article 92 of the UN Charter, all UN members are automatically state parties to the Statute of the ICJ. 

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The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations.  It is composed of representatives of all 192 members of the UN.  The UNGA has as its functions the following:  

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC, or UN Security Council) is one of the five primary organs of the United Nations, responsible for maintaining international peace and security.  The UNSC resolutions are binding on all member states.  The UNSC was established on January 17, 1946 and includes the five permanent members (United States, Russian Federation [as a state successor to the USSR], United Kingdom, China and Frace) which hold veto power, and also ten elected non-permanent members.  The UNSC's first actions in situations which may ca

The United Nations (UN) is one of the main international organizations and actors in international law.  The UN was founded in June 26, 1945 following WWII with the express purpose of guarding peace and preventing war.  The principal constitutive document of the UN is the United Nations Charter.  In its nearly 65-year history, the UN has evolved into a complex bureaucracy, with a great number of subsidiary structures and organizations.&nb

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was established in 1957 to provide assistance to states interested in developing atomic energy.  The goal of the IAEA is to establish a system of inspection and control to ensure, inter alia, that the aid is not used for military purposes.   See Ian Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law (5th ed., Oxford 1998).  The agency was started based on U.S.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), (French: Tribunal pénal International Pour le Rwanda), was established in November 8, 1994 by United Nations Security Council resolution 955 in order to prosecute persons responsible for genocide and other serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of Rwanda and neighboring states between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1994.

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), is an international criminal tribunal established by the United Nations to prosecute war crimes that took place during the conflict of the Belkans in 1990’s.  The tribunal was established by the United Nations Security Council on May 25, 1993 as the first international war crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals.  The key objective of the ICTY is to try those individuals most responsible for appalling acts such as genocide, exterminati

International criminal tribunals are temporary (ad hoc) or permanent courts convened for the purpose of deciding cases arising under international criminal law.  Examples of international criminal tribunals include: 

International environmental law (sometimes, international ecological law) is a field of international law regulating the behavior of states and international organizations with respect to the environment.  See Phillipe Sands, Principles of International Environmental Law (2nd ed., Cambridge, 2003).  Core domains for international regulation include management of the world's oceans and fisheries, the polar ice caps, and the regulation of carbon and other particulate emisssions into the atmosphere. 

International criminal law is a field of international law that seeks to regulate the behavior of states, organizations and individuals operating across national boundaries in commission of international crimes.  International criminal law also regulates the commission of grave crimes occurring on the territory of sovereign states where those crimes constitute genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, or other violations of jus cogens norms. <