Cases

 PLS 317 International Law
 Spring 2010
 Cases to Brief

Follow the outline of a case brief---another WWW page.  In addition, add a final section to include any comments you might have.  Where do I find the case?  In addition to the original source you will find the case in digests and case collections.

  Case Collections:  
         W. Bishop, Jr. International Law: Cases and Materials
       *H. Briggs, The Law of Nations: Cases (JX68,B7,1952)
        Deak, American International Law Cases (Ref JX238,A2,D4)
      *E. Dickinson, The Law of Nations (JX68,D52,1929)
        D. Harris, Cases and Materials on International Law
      *L. Henkin, et al, International Law Cases and Materials (JX68,I498,1987)
       Oliver, Cases and Materials on the International Legal System
      *J. Sweeney, C. Oliver & N. Leech, Cases and Materials on the International Legal System
                 (JX68,S88,1988)
        Sohn, Cases in United Nations Law (Ref JX1977,S64)
        Sohn, Cases and Other Materials on World Law (JX68,S6)
        Hudson, World Court, 1921-1938 (JX1971.5,H76)
        Permanent Court of Int’l Justice, World Court Reports, Vol 2 1927-32, Vol 4 1936-42 (JX1971.5, A63)

  Digests:
    M. Whiteman, Digest of International Law (Ref JX237,W55)
    Rudolf Bernhardt, et al, Digest of the Decisions of the International Court of Justice, 1976-1985
    Rudolf Bernhardt, et al, Digest of the Decisions of the International Court of Justice, 1959-1975

  Records
    For US Supreme Court see United States Reports KF8748,R422 or the WWW site
    For ICJ see
     *UN Publications, ICJ Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders, Vol 1981-1992
            JX1971.6 .A244 Year
     *UN, Summaries of judgments, advisory opinions, and orders of the ICJ, 1948-1991
           Ovsize.JX1991.A261992

  WWW Sites
      http://www.pict-pcti.org/index.html  Cases on line by international courts (select a court fromt pull down menu on top)
      Cases | International Court of Justice International Court of Justice Cases and Opinions
      http://www.worldcourts.com/pcij/eng/pcij-decisions.htm Permanent Court of International Justice via World Court
      http://www.icj-cij.org/pcij/index.php?p1=9 Permanent Court of International Justice via ICJ website
      http://www.law.cornell.edu/  Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute 
      http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm     US Supreme Court cases 1937 to 1975
      http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html Best overall source for US Supreme Court cases
     LII: Supreme Court Collection Home  Cornell Archive of Supreme Court Cases
     US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Case Brief Presenter in red
2nd case to brief

 

If you want to find relevant articles on your case search the JSTOR 

Pay particular attention to articles in the American Journal of International Law.

I  Nature and Historical Development of International Law
Note: on PCIJ and ICJ cases there are multiple files.  Sometimes the only issue is the jurisdiction of the court.  In others this is one of the issues.  Focus on the judgments on the merits of the case -- usually the last decision published.
  A. What is it and is it law

  B. Sources of Law

  C. Historical Origins

  1.  Free Zones of Upper Savoy & the District of Gex Case, PCIJ, 1932 Also Also PCIJ Index1 PCIJ Index2
  2.  New Jersey v. Delaware, US Supreme Court, 1934.   
  3.  US v. The Schooner La Jeune Eugenie, Raband & Labatut, Claimants US Court of Appeals, 1st Cir, 1822   Ivy-O'Donnell           

II  Subjects of International Law: States and Organizations
   A. International Law and Municipal Law

  1. Certain German Interests in Polish Upper Silesia, PCIJ, 1925 Also  PCIJ Index  PCIJ Index2
  2. Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, Advisory Opinion, PCIJ, 1926, Ser B. No. 10  PCIJ Index  PCIJ Index2 
  3. Massachusetts Burma Law Case.\Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council,
     Supreme Court of the United States, 530 U.S. 363, 120 Sct. 2288, 147 L.Ed. 352 (2000)     Slomanson 
  4. COMMITTEE OF US CITIZENS LIVING in NICARAGUA, United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, 859 Fed. Rptr.2d 929 (1988) 

  B. States and Governments

  1. Case Concerning Phosphate Lands in Nauru (Nauru v Australia) ICJ 1992  
  2. Bank of China v. Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co, US District Court, N.D. Calif, 1952 Also Also
    Zaerr
  3. German Settlers in Poland, PCIJ, 1923, Ser B, No. 6  Also   PCIJ Index  PCIJ Index2 Amberg

  C. Rights

  1. Republic of Iraq v. First National City Bank, Administrator, US District Court, SDNY, 1965  Paalberg
  2. Isbrandtsen Tankers, Inc. v. President of India, US Court of Appeals, 2nd Cir, 1971 
  3. Yessenin-Volpin v. Novosti Press Agency, et al, US District Court, SDNY, 1978
  4. Saudi Arabia, et al, v. Nelson, US Supreme Court, 1992 Slomanson 
  5. Republic of Argentina, et al, v. Weltover, Inc. et al 504 US Supreme Court 607, 1992  Ivy-O'Donnell
  6.  Mohamed Salem El-Hadad,  v. United Arab Emirates and The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, US DC Court of Appeals, 2000. 
  7. Judgement of the House of Lords, Regnia v. Bartle and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and Others Ex Parte  Pinochet On 24 March 1999 Slomanson   Kittleson

  D. Duties

  1. Nuclear Tests Case (Australia v. France), Reports, ICJ, 1973  ICJ Index  Muenster
  2. NICARAGUA v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ICJ, 1984   ICJ Index 
  3. Corfu Channel, ICJ, 1949   ICJ Index
  4. Rainbow Warrior Arbitration, Arbitration Tribunal, 1987 Also 

   E. Organizations

  1. Sei Fujii v. State of California, Supreme Court of Calif., 1952  Also
  2. Janet E. Atkinson, v. The Inter-American Development Bank, et al., US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, 1998.
  3. Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations, Advisory Opinion, International Court of Justice, (1949) International Court of Justice Reports 174  ICJ Index  Muenster
  4. Mendaro v. World Bank, US Court of Appeals, D.C. Cir., September 27, 1983  Christensen

  F. International Tribunals and Courts

  1. Case Concerning Border & Transborder Armed Actions (Nicaragua v. Honduras) ICJ, 1988   ICJ Index  Kittleson
  2. Case Concerning the Aerial Incident of 27 July, 1955 (Israel v. Bulgaria) ICJ, 1959.    ICJ Index
  3. PROSECUTOR v. DUSKO TADIC a/k/a/ "DULE" .International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Former Yugoslavia since 1991.Case No. IT-94-1-T, 7 May 1997 Slomanson Wery

III Subjects of International Law: The Individual
  A.  Individual and Human Rights

  1. K.-H.W. V. Germany, European Court of Human Rights, (Application no 37201/97) 2001 Vior
  2. Velasquez Rodriguez v. HONDURAS, Inter-American Court of Human Rights Judgment of July 29, 1988, Series C No. 1   Prescott
  3. Sosa v. Alvarex-Machain, US Supreme Court, 2004. Also  Paarlberg

  B.  Nationality and Jurisdiction

  1. Trop v. Dulles, US Supreme Court, 1958   
  2. Afroyim v. Rusk, US Supreme Court, 1967  Zaerr
  3. Rex v. Neumann, Union of South Africa, Special Criminal Court, Transvaal, 1946 Volin
                                     (The American Journal of International Law Vol. 44, No. 2 (Apr., 1950), pp. 423-424  access via JSTOR)
  4. US v. Rocha, US Court of Appeals, 2nd Cir, 1961  
  5. EEOC v. Arabian American Oil, US Supreme Court, 1991 
  6. Sale v. Haitian Ctrs. Council, US Supreme Court, 1993   
  7. Ahlstrom Oy and Others v. EC Commission, Court of Justice of the European Communities, 1988 Case No. 89/85, Euro. Court Rep. 5193, 4 Common Mkt. L. Rep. 901

   C. Treatment of Aliens

  1. Texaco Overseas Petroleum Company/California Asiatic Oil Company v. Government of Libyan Arab Republic, International Arbitration Tribunal, 1977  (Search on JSTOR)
  2. Case Concerning Elettronica Sicula S.p.A. (Elsi) (USA v Italy) ICJ 1989.   ICJ Index
  3. Nottebohm Case (Liechtenstein v. Guatemala) International Court of Justice (1955) International Court of Justice Reports 4   ICJ Index
  4. Barcelona Traction, Light, and Power Co. International Court of Justice, 1970, International Court of Justice Reports (Second Phase) 3 (1970)    ICJ Index D'Anna
  5. The S.S. Lotus (France v. Turkey) Permanent Court of International Justice, Permanent Court of International Justice Reports, Series A, No. 10 (1927)  PCIJ Index  PCIJ Index2

  D. Extradition

  1. Charlton v. Kelly, US Supreme Court, 1913 .   Metoyer
  2. Rivard v. US, US Court of Appeals, 5th Cir, 1967  
  3. US vs Humberto Alvarez-Machian, 504 US 655 (1992)   

  E. International Criminal Law

  1. Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,  (Bosnia-Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro) ICJ, 1996-2007    ICJ Index  Wery
  2. Piracy Jure Gentium, Great Britain, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1934 Veatch

IV  Territorial Questions
  A. Territory

  1. US v. Ray, US District Court, SD Florida, 1969 1970    
  2. Minquiers & Ecrehos Case (France-United Kingdom), ICJ, 1953  ICJ Index
  3. Treasure Salvors, Inc. v. Abandoned Sailing Vessel, US District Court, SD Florida, 1976.   See Also  And  
  4. Eastern Greenland Case (Denmark-Norway) PCIJ, 1933, Ser A/B No 53 PCIJ Index  PCIJ Index2

  B. National Air and Outer Space

  1. Chumney v. Nixon, US Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1980  Bex

   C. Law of the Sea

  1. Fisheries Jurisdiction Case (United Kingdom v. Iceland), (Merits), ICJ Reports, 1974 ICJ Index 
  2. Case Concerning Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area (Canada v. United States of America) ICJ, 1984  ICJ Index 
  3. Case Concerning the Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriyal) ICJ 1985   ICJ Index 
  4. North Sea Continental Shelf Case, ICJ 1969 ICJ Index  Prescott
  5. Camouco Case (Panama v. France), ITLOS, 2000 Slomanson  Veatch

V   Peaceful Transactions
A. Diplomats

  1. Case Concerning United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran, ICJ, 1980 ICJ Index 

  2. US National v. German National, High Court of Justice -- Family Division, Royal Courts of Justice, 1997.   McGee

  3. Case Concerning the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Paraguay v. United States of America) Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures: Order, International Court of Justice, 1998.  

  4. Asylum Case: Colombia v. Peru, International Court of Justice, 1950 International Court of Justice Reports 266 (1950)   ICJ Index 

   B. Agreements

  1. Asakura v. City of Seattle, US Supreme Court, 1924   D'Anna
  2. Dole v. Carter, US Court of Appeals, 10th Cir, 1977   
  3. Sei Fujii v. State of California, Supreme Court of California, 38 Cal. 2d. 718,242 P.d 617 (1952)
   C. Economic

VI International Environmental Law

  1. Trail Smelter, Am Journal of Int'l Law, 1941.    
  2. Case Concerning the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary v. Slovakia) International Court of Justice, General List No. 92 (Judgment of 25 September 1997) Slomanson ICJ Index  Bex
  3. Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, International Court of Justice, General List No. 95 (Advisory Opinion of 8 July 1996) [Focus on environmental principles the court announces]   ICJ Index  Vior

VII  Armed Conflict
  A. Laws of War

  1. Bennion v. New York Life Insurance Co., US Court of Appeals, 10th Cir, 1946   Metoyer
  2. Broussard v. Patton, US Court of Appeals, 9th Cir, 1972 reported in 67 American Journal of International Law 345 (1973).
  3. Padilla V. Bush US District Court, Southern District of New York, 2002  Amberg
  4. The Appam or Berg vs British & African Steam Nav Co., US Supreme Court 124, 1917  

   B.  War Crimes

  1. In Re Yamashita, US Supreme Court, 1946   McGee
  2. US v. Calley, US Court of Military Appeals, 1973  Slomanson Volin
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