Breaking the Code
No Man is an Island
Trick or Treaty
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Potpourri
100
The creator of the first civil code
Who is Justinian?
100
What is the missing criteria in the Montevideo Convention regarding the definition of a State
What is recognition?
100
This type of treaty is directly enforceable in a US court
What is a self executing treaty?
100
This case is the one that established the expansive effects basis for jurisdiction
What is Alcoa?
100
In Filartiga versus Pena Irala, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found that this tort was a violation of customary international law
What is torture?
200
In France, the civil code was meant to be in every citizen's home next to what document
What is the Bible?
200
These types of States while meeting the criteria, would not be granted legal status by the international community
What are puppet states?
200
The reservations to this human rights treaty seemed to contravene the object and purpose of the treaty but were still considered enforceable
What is CEDAW?
200
Pincohet was arrested on the basis of this type of jurisdiction
What is universal jurisdiction?
200
In the case of Barcelona Traction, the International Court of Justice looked to this source of international law, to figure out what the "nationality" of a company was
What are general principles?
300
These are the two main categories of legal subjects in civil law and influence the way codes are organized
What are public and private?
300
These types of States can sue or be sued in US Courts, assuming the US Department of State agrees
What is a de facto State?
300
The Senate will append these to a treaty before it goes to a vote.
What are Reservations, Understandings and Declarations?
300
In this case, the US government prosecuted conspirators who engaged in a plot in the Philippines to attack the US based on this theory of jurisdiction
What is the protective principle?
300
In this case, the majority interpreted an extradition treaty to determine that kidnapping of a Mexican doctor was not prohibited
What is U.S. v. Alvarez Machain?
400
Judges in civil law countries do not rely much on these in their decisionmaking
What is precedent?
400
You must belong to the same what in order to qualify for succession?
What is be part of the same people or ethnic group?
400
This ICJ case changed the rule regarding how reservations to a treaty are addressed in international law.
What is the Advisory opinion on the Genocide Convention?
400
The US prosecuted an aircraft hijacker of a Jordanian aircraft under the theory of passive personality because of this fact
What are that some of the passengers were US citizens?
400
The President can negotiate a treaty on issues normally reserved to the states based on this old case
What is Missouri v. Holland?
500
In France and Germany, judges were not meant to engage in this type of activity, when applying the code
What is judicial review?
500
Being a State is special because of these powers (name three)
What are the power to enter into agreements, declare war, govern within its own territory, etc
500
South Africa's constitution's treatment of customary intl law makes it what type of jurisdiction under international law
What is partially monist?
500
This Section of the Restatement of Foreign Relations provides guidance to courts on exercising jursidiction
What is Restatement Section 403?
500
In this case we read for practice, an Italian defendant was found liable in tort for allowing this item to find its way into the street
What is a garbage can?
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