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Permanent Court of International Justice. Reference library
David S. Patterson
The Oxford Companion to United States History
...of the League of Nations . Interest in a world court to handle legal issues nonetheless persisted. Article 14 of the Covenant of the League of Nations authorized the League Council to formulate plans for a Permanent Court of International Justice, and Article 13 defined the “justiciable” questions that could be brought before it. The U.S. Senate rejected membership in the league, but Elihu Root ( 1845–1937 ), the most prominent American promoter of a world court, served on the Advisory Committee of Jurists ( 1920 ) that designed the details for the new court...
Terra nullius Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian History
...nullius could be considered separately, Reynolds's distinction helps make sense of Murphy's comments. When the High Court ruled in 1992 (the Mabo case ) that ‘native title’ was protected by Australian common law, the judges reiterated that Australian sovereignty was not justiciable. While deploring forceful dispossession, their judgment did not, however, reclassify Australia as a ‘conquered’ colony. Rather, the court reinterpreted the essential prerogatives of Australian sovereignty, denying that it entailed wholesale dispossession. The High Court has not...
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The Oxford Companion to Scottish History
...when an ever‐increasing flow of directives and regulations has reached every corner of national law, justiciable ultimately in Luxemburg. Britain has also been a member of the Council of Europe since its inception in 1949 . One consequence of this has been the acceptance of the European Convention on Human Rights, and with it the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg. The Human Rights Act of 1998 makes the Convention justiciable for the first time in the ordinary courts of the land. At the other end of the spectrum, but by no...
