what happened in recent decades in collapse of several states and birth of new ones, raised serious questions about the legal aspects of the problem. does international community actually endorse the unilateral secession to create new states? what could be the real impacts of recent cases like kosovo and ossetia on the future of international legal order? the present article tries to find these...

state immunity is considered to be one of the most important issues in contemporary international law. over time, this concept gas been changed due to the evolution of international law and during recent decades, the focus of academic forums and national and international courts has been attached to it. in the meantime, several states including i.r.iran and u.s.a have approved state immunity la...

This Commentary forms a response to Nikogosian’s and Kickbusch’s forward-looking perspective about the legal strength of international health instruments. Building on their arguments, in this commentary we consider what we can learn from the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) for the adoption of new legal international health instruments.

The law has failed to keep apace with the rapid rise in e-commerce. This is particularly so when e-commerce spans national boundaries. There exists a regulatory gap that may result in unexpected outcomes for e-commerce companies involved in litigation. This paper investigates the possibility and feasibility of employing the concept of international commercial custom (hereinafter referred to as ...