unwillingness of the competent state to prosecute and investigate an international crime within the jurisdiction of the international criminal court is one of the aspects of admissibility of a case in the court. unwillingness is originally a subjective concept and is capable for a vast interpretation therefore may endanger the basic goal of complementarity principle i.e. respecting states sover...

in an era of information technology, businesses, through the use of the boundless internet, can enter into international electronic contracts from anywhere in the world. the potential for cross-border disputes in electronic contracts is obviously much greater than in a paper-based environment, where a high degree of commercial contracts are domestic in nature. can the traditional rules on juris...

Ethical principles of assessing medical research are to the greatest extent defined by the Nuremberg Code, the Declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Oviedo Convention. Pursuant to their directives various national Medical Ethics Committees (MECs) were established which assess the ethics of research according to the risk and benefit ratio of the persons involved. Following the example of ...

Using a novel coordinate system, we rederive the eld equations and equations of motion for 5-dimensional relativity in the general case where the metric can depend on all 5 coordinates (i.e., Kaluza-Klein theory without the cylinder restriction). We show that in general the fth dimension produces a new dynamical force in 4-dimensional spacetime. This timelike fth force is proportional to the 4-...

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039 R I. THE PRIMARY JURISDICTION DOCTRINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043 R II. CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS IN FEDERAL-COURT LITIGATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048 R A. Article III Constraints . . . . . . ...

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 101 I. THE COMCAST ORDER’S VISION OF FCC INTERNET REGULATION ............................................................................ 106 A. A (Very) Little Communications Act Set-up ........................... 106 B. The Comcast Order ...............................................................

The relationship between jurisdiction and the internet has been the subject of wide ranging discussion ever since the boom in domestic internet usage. Without clear legislation, laws have been created on an ad hoc basis, often in response to specific cases. It is difficult to predict whether any one law will ever be sufficient to cope with the great variety of alleged crimes which take place on...

The use of cyberspace increases tremendously in the past 20 years. An increasing number of businesses and consumers worldwide have accessed the Internet and there is few doubt on its growing significance for world trade. The unique features of E-business lead to the uncertainty and insecurity for the consumers as well as the companies, and incur great strikes to the traditional jurisdiction rul...

Abstract After more than a decade of discussions, States at the United Nations are nearing agreement on new international legally binding instrument for conservation and sustainable use biodiversity in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction. The would resolve longstanding questions over genetic resources, put place process des-ignation protected areas, strengthen framework environ-mental imp...

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