Abstract This article contains a plea for continuing attention to the elements of international legal positivism. Using language ‘elements’ deliberately plays on positivist tendency describe discipline as science. Yet law’s differ in important ways from usual objects scientific inquiry. Law’s method does not seek address structure and behaviour physical world, but that particular society with i...

The article examines the specificities of personal data protection at international level, clarifying meaning concepts such as “personal information”, data”, “person” and “identity”. analysis synthesis existing norms standards have been carried out, allowing to identify range issues requiring elimination contradictions legislative in order increase efficiency their application, given rapid proc...

In August 1996, the International Health Law Committee, International Law and Practice Section, American Bar Association, sponsored a program entitled “Law and Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases” to examine how the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases affects international and U.S. federal, state, and local law. The issues addressed included international legal rules on in...

There is widespread recognition today that we are living in a period of profound technological, social, economic and political change, and that this process of change is accelerating. Yet, there is less certainty about the nature and meaning of these changes—whether they should be regulated or liberalized, supported or resisted— and the kind of world they are leading to. Despite these uncertai...

the prohibition of torture is considered as jus cogens which, has its specific legal effects. furthermore, international law has criminalized torture and stipule that perpetrators of torture should be adequately prosecuted by any state. this paper attempts to describe briefly, the international practice against torture and to address some deficiencies in this realm with regard to violations tow...

a non-performance of contract in due date is considered as an actual breach, has sanctions in order to securing interest of the injured party. has foreseeable breach of contract - it is accepted today as an actual breach by different legal systems - the same sanctions of actual breach of contract? in this article suspension of performance of obligations by innocent party and, in some conditions...