Aaland Islands Case
(1920) L.N.O.J. Spec. Supp. No. 3. During the union between Sweden and Finland, the Aaland Islands formed part of the administrative division of Finland, but were ceded to Russia by ...
Abdullah El-Erian
1920–1982.Egyptian diplomat and public servant; Professor, Cairo 1943–1961; Member, I.L.C. 1957–1958 and 1962–1978; Judge, I.C.J. 1979–1981. Principal works include Condominium and Related Situations ...
ablegatus
An early term, translated into envoy, signifying a diplomatic representative of a level below that of ambassador. See Satow's Guide to Diplomatic Practice (5th ed.), 84.
absence (in voting)
The absence of a State when a vote is taken in an organ of an international organization can raise problems. One authority confidently asserts that ‘[i]t would seem to be ...
absorption
An international organization may cease to exist through absorption by another, e.g., the International Bureau of Education was assimilated into UNESCO in 1969. See Sands and Klein, Bowett's Law of ...
abstention (in voting)
Abstention by a State in voting in an organ of an international organization can give rise to significant legal problems. ‘At one time abstentions were apparently counted as negative votes ...
Abu Dhabi Arbitration
Properly styled Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Ltd. v. Sheikh of Abu Dhabi (1951) 18 I.L.R. 144, this proceeding arose out of a dispute as to whether the contract between the ...
abuse of flag
‘It is [a] universally recognised rule [of customary international law] that warships of every state may seize, and bring to a port of their own for punishment, any foreign vessel ...
Access to, or Anchorage in, the Port of Danzig, of Polish War Vessels Opinion
(1931) P.C.I.J., Ser. A/B, No. 43. On 19 September 1931, the League of Nations’ Council asked the P.C.I.J. for an advisory opinion on whether the Danzig–Polish Treaty, contained in Part ...
accord
In French, accord is the equivalent of agrément (or agreement in English). The term is, however, sometimes used in English, signifying an agreement of a greater or less degree of informality. See ...
