A self-executing treaty is a treaty that becomes judicially enforceable upon ratification. As opposed to a non-self executing treaty, which becomes judicially enforceable through the implementation of legislation. A treaty could be identified as...
international law
settler colonialism
The concept of settler colonialism can be defined as a system of oppression based on genocide and colonialism, that aims to displace a population of a nation (oftentimes indigenous people) and replace it with a new settler population. Settler...
sexual slavery
Sexual slavery refers to the systematic enslavement of an ethnic group for sexual purposes. When perpetrated as part of a systematic attack against a civilian population, sexual slavery is a crime against humanity triable at the International Criminal...
state
A state is a political division of a body of people that occupies a territory defined by frontiers. The state is sovereign in its territory (also referred to as jurisdiction) and has the authority to enforce a system of rules over the people...
statehood (international law)
The attributes of statehood under international law have traditionally been considered the following: territory; population; recognition by other states. See Ian Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law 83-85 (5th ed., Oxford, 1998); Hans...
status
Status means a person’s legal condition, whether personal or proprietary.
In the context of immigration law, it is the name of the visa category a person has been assigned and the group of privileges received upon becoming...
subjects of international law
In Public international law, the subjects of international law traditionally included states. Since the establishment of international criminal tribunals, individuals are also proper subjects of international law. Other international actors include...
taking of hostages
The taking of hostages, if perpetrated as part of an armed conflict, is a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The prosecutor must show the following elements:
The perpetrator seized, detained, or otherwise held...tariff
A tariff refers to the duty imposed on a foreign item when it is imported into another country. It also refers to custom duties or custom tolls. Before World War II, many countries supported trade protectionism theory, the tariff in the...
tariff engineering
Tariff engineering is the targeted design of a product's characteristics to reduce the tariff to be paid on imports. Unlike tax evasion, tariff engineering is legal. It studies changes to the material, structure, or other characteristics of a...