Cases
PLS 317 International Law
Spring 2007
Cases to Brief
Follow the outline of a case brief---another
WWW page. In addition, add a final section to include any comments
you might have. Where do I find the case? In addition
to the original source you will find the case in digests and case collections.
Case Collections:
W. Bishop, Jr. International
Law: Cases and Materials
*H. Briggs, The Law of Nations:
Cases (JX68,B7,1952)
Deak, American International
Law Cases (Ref JX238,A2,D4)
*E. Dickinson, The Law of Nations
(JX68,D52,1929)
D. Harris, Cases and
Materials on International Law
*L. Henkin, et al, International
Law Cases and Materials (JX68,I498,1987)
Oliver,
Cases and Materials on the International Legal System
*J. Sweeney, C. Oliver & N. Leech,
Cases
and Materials on the International Legal System
(JX68,S88,1988)
Sohn, Cases in United
Nations Law (Ref JX1977,S64)
Sohn, Cases and Other
Materials on World Law (JX68,S6)
Hudson, World Court,
1921-1938 (JX1971.5,H76)
Permanent Court of Int’l
Justice, World Court Reports, Vol 2 1927-32, Vol 4 1936-42 (JX1971.5,
A63)
Digests:
M. Whiteman, Digest of International Law
(Ref JX237,W55)
Rudolf Bernhardt, et al, Digest of the Decisions
of the International Court of Justice, 1976-1985
Rudolf Bernhardt, et al, Digest of the Decisions
of the International Court of Justice, 1959-1975
Records
For US Supreme Court see United States Reports
KF8748,R422 or the WWW site
For ICJ see
*UN Publications, ICJ Reports of Judgments,
Advisory Opinions and Orders, Vol 1981-1992
JX1971.6 .A244 Year
*UN, Summaries of judgments, advisory opinions,
and orders of the ICJ, 1948-1991
Ovsize.JX1991.A261992
WWW Sites
http://www.pict-pcti.org/index.html Cases on line
by international court (select court and then cases from left menu)
http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idecisions.htm
International Court of Justice Cases and Opinions
http://www.worldcourts.com/pcij/eng/pcij-decisions.htm
Permanent Court of International Justice
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
US Supreme Court cases 1990 to present
http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm
US Supreme Court cases 1937 to 1975
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html Best overall source for
US Supreme Court cases
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.php
Cornell Archive of Supreme Court Cases
I Nature and Historical Development of
International Law
A. What is it and is it law
B. Sources of Law
C. Historical Origins
- Free Zones of Upper Savoy & the District of Gex Case, PCIJ, 1932
Also
Also
- New Jersey v. Delaware, US Supreme Court, 1934.
- US v. The Schooner La Jeune Eugenie, Raband & Labatut, Claimants US
Court of Appeals, 1st Cir, 1822
II Subjects of International Law: States
and Organizations
A. International Law and Municipal Law
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Certain German Interests in Polish Upper Silesia, PCIJ, 1925
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Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, Advisory Opinion, PCIJ, 1930,
Ser B. No. 10
- Massachusetts
Burma Law Case.\Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council,
Supreme Court of the United States, 530 U.S. 363, 120 Sct. 2288, 147 L.Ed. 352 (2000)
Text WWW Site
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COMMITTEE OF US CITIZENS LIVING in NICARAGUA,
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, 859 Fed. Rptr.2d 929 (1988)
Text WWW Site
B. States and Governments
-
Case Concerning Phosphate Lands in Nauru (Nauru v Australia) ICJ 1992
- Bank of China v. Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co, US District Court,
N.D. Calif, 1952 Also
Also
-
German Settlers in Poland, PCIJ, 1923, Ser B, No. 6
C. Rights
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Republic of Iraq v. First National City Bank, Administrator, US District
Court, SDNY, 1965
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Isbrandtsen Tankers, Inc. v. President of India, US Court of Appeals, 2nd
Cir, 1971
- Yessenin-Volpin v. Novosti Press Agency, et al, US District Court, SDNY,
1978
- Saudi Arabia, et al, v. Nelson, US Supreme Court, 1992 Text
WWW Site
- Republic of Argentina, et al, v.
Weltover, Inc. et al 504 US Supreme Court
607, 1992
- Mohamed
Salem El-Hadad, v. United Arab Emirates and The Embassy of the United
Arab Emirates, US DC Court of Appeals, 2000.
- JUDGMENT OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS,
REGINA v. BARTLE AND THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE FOR THE METROPOLIS AND OTHERS EX PARTE
PINOCHET
On 24 March 1999 Text
WWW Site
D. Duties
-
Nuclear Tests Case
(Australia v. France), Reports, ICJ, 1973
- NICARAGUA v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
ICJ, 1986
-
Corfu
Channel, ICJ, 1949
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Rainbow Warrior Arbitration, Arbitration Tribunal, 1987
E. Organizations
-
Sei Fujii v. State of California, Supreme Court of Calif., 1952
Also
- Broadbent v. Organization of American States, US Court of Appeals, District of
Columbia Circuit, 628 Fed Rptr. 2d 27 (1980)
Also
Potential Substitute for Broadbent
Janet E. Atkinson, v. The Inter-American Development Bank, et al.,
US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, 1998.
- Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United
Nations,
Advisory Opinion, International Court of Justice, (1949) International
Court of Justice Reports 174
-
Mendaro v. World Bank, US Court of Appeals, D.C. Cir., September 27,
1983
F. International Tribunals and Courts
- Case Concerning Border & Transborder Armed Actions (Nicaragua v. Honduras)
ICJ, 1988
- Case Concerning the Aerial Incident of 27 July, 1955 (Israel vs Bulgaria)
ICJ, 1959.
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PROSECUTOR v. DUSKO TADIC a/k/a/ "DULE" .International Tribunal for the
Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International
Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Former Yugoslavia since
1991.Case No. IT-94-1-T, 7 May 1997
Text WWW Site
III Subjects of International Law: The Individual
A. Individual and Human Rights
- K.-H.W.
V. Germany, European
Court of Human Rights, (Application no 37201/97) 2001
- Velasquez
Rodriguez v. HONDURAS, Inter-American Court of Human Rights Judgment of July 29, 1988, Series C No. 1 Text
WWW Site
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Sosa
v. Alvarex-Machain, US Supreme Court, 2004.
Also
Also
B. Nationality and Jurisdiction
- Trop v.
Dulles,
US Supreme Court, 1958
- Afroyim v.
Rusk,
US Supreme Court, 1967
-
Rex v. Neumann,
Union of South Africa, Special Criminal Court, Transvaal, 1946
- US v. Rocha,
US Court of Appeals, 2nd Cir, 1961
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EEOC v. Arabian
American Oil, US Supreme Court, 1991
- Sale v. Haitian
Ctrs. Council, US Supreme Court, 1993
- Ahlstrom Oy and Others v. EC Commission, Court of Justice of the European
Communities, 1988 Case No. 89/85, Euro. Court Rep. 5193, 4 Common Mkt. L.
Rep. 901
C. Treatment of Aliens
- Texaco Overseas
Petroleum Company/California Asiatic Oil Company v. Government of Libyan
Arab Republic, International Arbitration Tribunal, 1977
Also
- Case Concerning
Elettronica Sicula S.p.A. (Elsi) (USA v Italy) ICJ 1989.
- Nottebohm Case (Liechtenstein v. Guatemala)
International Court of Justice
(1955) International Court of Justice Reports 4
- Barcelona Traction, Light, and Power Co. International Court of Justice,
1970, International Court of Justice Reports (Second Phase) 3 (1970)
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The S.S. Lotus (France v. Turkey) Permanent Court of International
Justice, Permanent Court of International Justice Reports, Series A, No. 10
(1927)
D. Extradition
-
Charlton v. Kelly,
US Supreme Court, 1913 .
- Rivard v. US, US Court
of Appeals, 5th Cir, 1967
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US vs Humberto Alvarez-Machian,
504 US 655 (1992)
E. International Criminal Law
- Application of the
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,
(Bosnia-Herzegovina v. Yugoslavia) ICJ, 1996
- Piracy Jure Gentium,
Great Britain, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1934
IV Territorial Questions
A. Territory
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US v. Ray, US
District Court, SD Florida, 1969
- Minquiers &
Ecrehos Case (France-United Kingdom), ICJ, 1953
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Treasure Salvors,
Inc. v. Abandoned Sailing Vessel, US District Court, SD Florida, 1976.
See Also And
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Eastern Greenland
Case (Denmark-Norway) PCIJ, 1933, Ser A/B No 53
B. National Air and Outer Space
-
Chumney v. Nixon,
US Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1980
C. Law of the Sea
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Fisheries Jurisdiction
Case (United Kingdom v. Iceland), (Merits), ICJ Reports, 1974
-
Case Concerning Delimitation
of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area (Canada
v. United States of America) ICJ, 1984
- Case Concerning
the Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriyal) ICJ 1985
- North Sea Continental
Shelf Case, ICJ 1969
- Camouco
Case (Panama
v. France), ITLOS, 2000
Text WWW Site
V Peaceful Transactions
A. Diplomats
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Case Concerning
United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran, ICJ, 1980
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US National v.
German National, High Court of Justice -- Family Division, Royal Courts
of Justice, 1997.
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Case Concerning the Vienna
Convention on Consular Relations (Paraguay v. United States of America)
Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures: Order, International
Court of Justice, 1998.
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Asylum
Case: Colombia v. Peru, International Court of Justice, 1950
International Court of Justice Reports 266 (1950)
B. Agreements
-
Asakura v. City
of Seattle, US Supreme Court, 1924
-
Dole v. Carter,
US Court of Appeals, 10th Cir, 1977
-
Sei Fujii v. State of California, Supreme Court of
California, 38 Cal. 2d. 718,242 P.d 617 (1952)
C. Economic
VI International Environmental Law
-
Trail Smelter,
Am Journal of Int'l Law, 1941.
Also
- Case Concerning the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project
(Hungary
v. Slovakia) International Court of Justice, General List No. 92 (Judgment
of 25 September 1997)
Text WWW Site
- Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear
Weapons,
International Court of Justice, General List No. 95 (Advisory Opinion of 8
July 1996) [Focus on environmental principles the court announces]
VII Armed Conflict
A. Laws of War
-
Bennion v. New
York Life Insurance Co., US Court of Appeals, 10th Cir, 1946
-
Broussard v.
Patton, US Court of Appeals, 9th Cir, 1972 reported in 67 American Journal of
International Law 345 (1973).
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Padilla V. Bush
US District Court, Southern District of New York, 2002
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The Appam or Berg
vs British & African Steam Nav Co., US Supreme Court 124, 1917
B. War Crimes
- In Re
Yamashita,
US Supreme Court, 1946
- US v.
Calley, US Court
of Military Appeals, 1973
Text WWW Site
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