Principles of Public International Law

Influenza Virus Samples, International Law, and Global Health Diplomacy

“…Despite controversies surrounding it, the principle of sovereignty remains a central tenet of international law (12). Traditionally, sovereignty holds that a state has authority and control over the people, resources, and activities within its territory (12). International law supplements sovereignty with the rule prohibiting states from intervening in each other's domestic affairs (12).…”

“…By withholding samples, Indonesia asserted sovereignty over them because they originated within its territory. Despite controversies surrounding it, the principle of sovereignty remains a central tenet of international law (12). Traditionally, sovereignty holds that a state has authority and control over the people, resources, and activities within its territory (12).…”

Sexual and reproductive rights at the United Nations: frustration or fulfilment?

“…10 Nation states are the authoritative players in this world, each formally equal to each other, and each capable in their sovereignty of binding or contracting themselves to agreements which must be followed once ratified, irrespective of changing politics or administration. Such binding agreements, called treaties, are one of the few sources of international human rights law.…”

Asian Socialism and Legal Change : The dynamics of Vietnamese and Chinese Reform

“…A minority of nations, led by the United Kingdom, and most nations of the Commonwealth, adopt a transformation approach to treaty provisions (Brownlie 1990). 20 In Attorney General for Canada v Attorney General for Ontario, 21 Lord Atken stated that within the British Empire there is a well-established rule that the making of treaties is an executive act, while the performance of its obligations, if they entail alteration of the existing domestic law, requires legislative action…the stipulations of a treaty duly ratified do not within the Empire, by virtue of the treaty alone, have the force of law.…”