First Batch of Basic Materials

First Batch of Basic Materials

  1. Charter of the United Nations
  2. Statute of the International Court of Justice
  3. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
  4. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
  5. International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
  6. Draft Articles on the Law of Treaties (1966) With Commentaries
  7. Convention (IV) respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its annex: Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land (1907) (Hague Regulations), Regulation 42
  8. The Third Geneva Convention (GCIII), relative to the treatment of prisoners of war (1949), Arts. 3-4, 21-24, 49-57
  9. The Fourth Geneva Convention, relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949) (GCIV), Arts. 33, 47, 49, 51-53, 55-56, 59-60, 76, 79-88
  10. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (API), Arts. 1, 3-4, 44-45, 48-52, 54-55, 57-58, 60, 69-70, 85-86
  11. Draft articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, with commentaries (2001)
  12. Draft articles on the effects of armed conflicts on treaties, with commentaries (2011)
  13. Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (1989)
  14. Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (2001)
  15. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1947)
  16. Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000)
  17. Barcelona Traction, Light, and Power Company, Ltd., ICJ Judgement (1970)
  18. Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), ICJ Judgement (1986)
  19. Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ICJ Advisory Opinion (2004)
  20. Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda), ICJ Judgment (2005)
  21. Inter American Court of Human Rights, Advisory Opinion OC-23/17 on The Environment and Human Rights (2017)
  22. Prosecutor v. Prlić et al., Trial Chamber Judgment, ICTY (2013)
  23. Prosecutor v. Prlić et al., Appeal Chamber Judgement, ICTY (2017)
  24. UN General Assembly Resolutions:
  25. Strauss, M. J. (2015). Territorial Leasing in Diplomacy and International Law. Leiden: Brill Nijhoff - available on  Team Homepage
  26. Unilateral coercive measures: notion, types and qualification, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Alena Douhan (2021) - Updated 7 October 2022