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Whether Nicaragua violated Articles 1 (obligation to respect rights), 2 (domestic legal effects), 21 (right to property), and 25 (right to judicial protection) of the American Convention on...

Whether, and to what extent, an important general interest of compliance with Community obligations could justify the impugned interference by the Irish state with the applicant company’s...

Whether the views of the ‘world community’ were relevant evidence in considering whether there was a consensus on the use of the death penalty against mentally retarded defendants, for the...

Whether the Netherlands could justify a distinction based on nationality by relying on Resolution no 1737, UN Security Council.

Whether a domestic amnesty may have acted as a bar to international criminal prosecution.

Whether the test for complicity in crimes against humanity as developed in Canadian law in relation to refugee exclusions under Article 1F(a) of the Convention relating to the Status of...

Whether establishing quotas for female representation amounted to a ‘special measure’ directed at ensuring substantive equality in accordance with the Convention on the Elimination of All...

Whether jurisdiction should be declined in deference to the act of state doctrine.

Whether the tort referred to in the Alien Tort Statute meant a wrong in violation of the law of...

Whether to grant Belgium's request for authorization to derogate from Court orders fixing time limits, in order to submit preliminary objections related to the pending revision of Belgian...

Whether the act of state doctrine (or ‘AOSD’) would in some circumstances bar the domestic courts' inquiry into the validity of a foreign government's official action.

Whether the UK Treasury was justified in requiring the wife of an individual whose assets had been frozen pursuant to a UN Security Council Resolution to account for her expenditure.

Whether Indian courts had jurisdiction to provide a remedy for a possible violation of the TRIPS Agreement, or whether the WTO Dispute Settlement Body was the appropriate forum for the...

Whether to halt, pending final judgment on the merits of the case, the execution of Mr Breard, a Paraguayan national who was prosecuted and sentenced to death in the United States,...

Whether the Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (‘Geneva Protocol’), UN Security...

Whether the designation of the United States as a safe third country to which asylum seekers may be returned was in accordance with international law as incorporated into Canadian law.

Whether the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women prohibited any form of discrimination against women, or whether it prohibited only discrimination...

Whether there was a legal principle in international law prohibiting double taxation.

Whether national tax authorities were obliged to take into account the tax paid to the fiscal...

Whether the legal regimes of the Organic Law No 11/2007 of 16/03/2007 Concerning Transfer of Cases to the Republic of Rwanda from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and From...

Whether non-state actors—including private individuals and corporations—could be held liable for violations of the Alien Tort Statute (‘ATS’).

Whether the making of financial...