The United Nations Charter as the Constitution of the International Community
Title | The United Nations Charter as the Constitution of the International Community PDF eBook |
Author | Bardo Fassbender |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004175105 |
The a oeconstitutionalizationa of international law is one of the most intensely debated issues in contemporary international legal doctrine. The term is used to describe a number of features which distinguish the present international legal order from a oeclassicala international law, in particular its shift from bilateralism to community interest, and from an inter-state system to a global legal order committed to the well-being of the individual person. The author of this book belongs to the leading participants of the constitutionalization debate. He argues that there indeed exists a constitutional law of the international community that is built on and around the Charter of the United Nations. In this book, he explains why the Charter has a constitutional quality and what legal consequences arise from that characterization.
Constitution of the United Nations
Title | Constitution of the United Nations PDF eBook |
Author | Alf Ross |
Publisher | The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | International law |
ISBN | 1584778911 |
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Title | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Civil rights |
ISBN |
The Changing Constitution of the United Nations
Title | The Changing Constitution of the United Nations PDF eBook |
Author | Georges Abi-Saab |
Publisher | British Institute for International & Comparative Law |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice
Title | Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice PDF eBook |
Author | United Nations |
Publisher | UN |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2015-08-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9789210016513 |
The Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945 by 51 countries representing all continents, paving the way for the creation of the United Nations on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of Justice forms part of the Charter. The aim of the Charter is to save humanity from war; to reaffirm human rights and the dignity and worth of the human person; to proclaim the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small; and to promote the prosperity of all humankind. The Charter is the foundation of international peace and security.
Admission to the United Nations
Title | Admission to the United Nations PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas D. Grant |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2009-04-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9047427092 |
The United Nations began as an alliance during World War II. Eventually, however, the UN came to approximate a universal organization - i.e., open to and aspiring to include all States. This presents a legal question, for Article 4 of the Charter contains substantive criteria to limit admission of States to the UN and no formal amendment has touched that part of the Charter. This book gives an up-to-date account of admission to the UN, from the 1950s ‘logjam’ through on-going controversies like Kosovo and Taiwan. With reference to Charter law, the book considers how Article 4 came to accommodate universality and what the future of a universal organization in a world of politically diverse States might be.
Constitution-Making under UN Auspices
Title | Constitution-Making under UN Auspices PDF eBook |
Author | Vijayashri Sripati |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2020-01-16 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199098360 |
In 1949, United Nations Constitutional Assistance (UNCA) was conceived to promote the Western liberal constitution. This was colonial trusteeship. However, in 1960, as a step towards decolonization, the United Nations General Assembly rejected internationalized constitution-making, and, by extension, UNCA. All colonies acquired the right to draft their own constitutions without any international assistance. Nonetheless, in the same year, UNCA was revived and since then it has helped over 40 developing sovereign states to adopt the Western liberal constitution, for the aims of building peace, preventing conflict, and promoting good governance in these independent states. This book scrutinizes UNCA and its off-shoot, UN/International Territorial Administration (ITA), including their historical origins and revival from 1960 to 2019. Sripati argues that although the United Nations (UN) uses UNCA to help developing sovereign states secure debt relief, it undertakes UNCA to ‘modernize’ them with a view to ‘strengthen’ their supposedly weakened sovereignty. By doing so, the UN is seeking these states’ adoption of a Western liberal-style constitution, thus violating their right to self-determination. The book shows how UNCA sires and guides UN (legislative) assistance in all state-sectors: security, judicial, electoral, commercial, parliamentary, public administration, and criminal. Irrespective of UNCA’s benevolent motivations, such intrusive interventions impose the old forms of domination and perpetuate global inequality.