Chapter 11: State Responsibility and State Claims

ILC Draft articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts

http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/draft%20articles/9_6_2001.pdf

*Pages 444 – 446

On attribution of responsibility for failure to prevent genocide, see ICJ Judgment of 27 February 2007 in Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro)

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&code=bhy&case=91&k=f4

Footnote link:

6 http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/commentaries/9_6_2001.pdf

55 Settlement of claims

Libyan admission of responsibility and proposals for settlement of claims in respect of the destruction of a Pan Am aircraft over Lockerbie in Scotland are in a letter to the President of the UN Security Council. This is rather different from the usual manner of negotiation leading to settlement of claims

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/scotland/3155825.stm

and see generally:

US Foreign Claims Settlement Commission

http://www.usdoj.gov/fcsc/

Chapter 12: International Courts and Tribunals

See generally Project on International Courts and Tribunals:

http://www.pict-pcti.org

An introduction to the ICJ is at:

http://www.icj-cij.org/court/index.php?p1=1

Footnote links:

6 www.icj-cij.org

14 http://www.pca-cpa.org/

16 http://www.pca-cpa.org/

*19 For problems in selecting among arbitral possibilities, see

Occidental Exploration & Production Company v Republic of Ecuador

(UK, Court of Appeal)

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2005/1116.html

23 http://arbiter.wipo.int/center/index.html

24 http://www.wto.org

26 http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/disp2_e.htm

33 http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/ORGANIZATION/BODEXT/0,,contentMDK:20122597~menuPK:64020034~pagePK:64020054~piPK:64020408~theSitePK:278036,00.html

54 http://www.icj-cij.org/jurisdiction/index.php?p1=5&p2=1&p3=4

On the USA’s withdrawal from the Vienna Consular Convention’s Optional Protocol Concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes, see:

http://www.asil.org/insights/2005/03/insights050309.html

and addendum:

http://www.asil.org/insights/2005/03/insights050309a.html

On the View taken by the US Supreme Court of the ICJ judgments on the Vienna Consular Convention, see Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon 548 US

(28 June 2006)

www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05pdf/04-10566.pdf

55 http://www.icj-cij.org/jurisdiction/index.php?p1=5&p2=1&p3=3

58 Provisional measures: see also Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States of America) (ICJ)

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&code=mus&case=128&k=18