Caroline Incident
Sources of Law
AROC
Current Events
War Criminals
100

This man was shot, killed, and hung in a tavern by members of the British Navy.

Who is Amos Durfee?

100

These are the four recognized sources of international law.

What are treaties, customs, general principles, and subsidiary sources?

100

"AROC" is an acronym for this set of elements within a legal argument.

What are Actors, Rights, Obligations, and Conditions?

100

This state brought a genocide case to the ICJ against Israel for Israel's 2023 actions against Palestinians in Gaza.

Who is South Africa?

100

This infamous war criminal was appointed Chanceller of Germany in 1933, just under 10 years after being imprisoned for high treason for helping to lead an attempted coup called the "Beer Hall Putsch."

Who is Adolf Hitler?

200

The Caroline Incident involves the determination of whether the British were justified under this principle in their attack and burning of the Caroline.

What is self-defense?

200

States negotiate, ratify, and sign this source of law.

What are treaties?

200

These describe the costs for actors to enjoy the benefits associated with Rights.

What are Obligations?

200

Actor Carl Weathers, who passed away on Feb. 1, 2024, notably played this planet-trekking smuggler also played by Donald Glover.

Who is Landonis Balthazar "Lando" Calrissian III?

200

This war criminal was President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003 and invaded of Kuwait in 1990.

Who is Saddam Hussein?

300

This man was the U.S. Secretary of State during the Caroline Incident.

Who is Daniel Webster?

300

Examples of this source of law include equality, sovereignty, reciprocity, and the administration of justice.

What are general principles?

300

Actors in international law include these four types or categories.

What are states, IGOs, NGOs, and individuals?

300

This state has taken over the G20 presidency from India for 2024.

Who is Brazil?

300

In March 2023, this court has issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin for the war crimes of unlawful deportation and transfer of population (children) occupied areas in Ukraine to the Russian Federation.

What is the International Criminal Court?
400

Where was the body of Amos Durfee publicly displayed?

Where is Buffalo, New York? (in front of City Hall)

400

These are patterns of behavior that are enacted by states out of a sense of obligation.

What are international customs?

400

That an armed conflict must have begun is an example of a condition for which international legal regime?

What is International Humanitarian Law?

400

Facebook turned this age on Feb. 4, 2024.

What is 20 years old?

400

To date, the United Nations has set up courts of law, or international criminal tribunals, concerning these two states over war crimes committed during their respective conflicts in the 1990s.

What are Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia?

500

Name the conditions of self defense under international law. (i.e., its definition)

What is an instant and overwhelming threat, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation.

500

These sources of law are secondary sources meant to provide evidence of existing rules that apply to states, though they are not created directly by states.

What are subsidiary sources?

500

Your memorials ask you to AROC the second section (part B.), labeled as this.

What is Interpretation of Law?

500

The U.S. and the U.K. have recently engaged in a barrage of strikes on this militia group in Yemen in response to attacks on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

What is the Houthi?

500

This war criminal, who founded the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda, was indicted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity in 2005, but his whereabouts remain unknown.

Who is Joseph Kony?