Customary international law

using the website. Nissan?s operating in a foreign country poses some challenges for them since people in the United States can purchase a vehicle online. Nissan has now went from a brick and mortar U.S. corporation to an International Corporation they need to comply with the laws and regulation for online businesses, those not meeting the terms can be subject to fines, jail time, or have to pay compensation payments (Schneider, 2013). Legal issued that Nissan can encounter by having a…

becomes very important. Unfortunately, the fast growing population in the country has led to the availability of land for development becomes very limited. Therefore, the government then issued land acquisition law number 2/2012, regarding land acquisition process…

of Somalia appear to relentlessly evade the awareness of the international community. And yet we cannot steer clear of Somalia which may one day threaten the framework of world security then the next disrupt global…

Now that jurisdiction has been defined, the bases of jurisdiction must be analyzed. International legal rules limit that ability to apply its statutes extraterritorially, however, there are two determinations for extraterritorial jurisdiction. The first is whether a domestic law exists that covers the offensive act, and the second is whether a sovereign state may, under international law, prescribe such conduct extraterritorially. There are five bases of jurisdiction that states use for…

in order to eliminate the armed civilians firing upon and killing some of his men? I argue that he was not justified to order his men to open fire upon the crowd because of the principles of the law of war which govern the legal use of force in an armed conflict. The first principle of the international law of armed conflict is military necessity. This principle essentially states that in order to apply lethal force to a target, that target must be a legitimate military objective. Engaging…

The fundamental objective of international law, to regulate the relations between sovereign states, has become a standard to evaluating the effectiveness of different approaches to international law. Various philosophical disciplines have interpreted the importance and usefulness of international law in order to establish a better understanding of how international law is to be executed. This paper will take a thorough look at how two different philosophers have explained the concepts and…

The International Criminal Court (“ICC”) informed all State Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC (“Rome Statute”), to which South Africa is a party, to cooperate with the arrest warrant and to surrender Al-Bashir to the Court if he enters into their territorial jurisdiction. It is the first warrant of arrest issued to a head of state by the ICC. This illustrates the importance of accountability…

Mello and Strausz (2011, p.355) state that CEDAW women’s rights activists in Japan, reframed women’s rights issues as human rights issues. Some policy changes were developed, such as the law on ‘prohibiting domestic violence and stalking’, birth control pill, and parental leave. They further explain that in early 2005, Women for Women’s Human Rights (WWHR) in Turkey, issued a shadow report urging for critical reforms on the penal code,…

A concrete example of how alienation would cause the social issue of inequality under this case is the following: MCGI or Members Church of God International, which is a religious sect with Mr. Eliseo Soriano as the presiding minister, has a very particular modest dress and grooming code. Women are prohibited to cut their hair, nor wear expensive jewelry and denim pants, while men are not allowed to…

incorporation between Islamic Law and the customary law, which then tried to perform the national law. Scholars had recognized the existence of customary law (named as Adat) and Islamic Law in Indonesia which coexisted…