Essays on Public International Law

Introduction

Over the last two decades, the Internet has become an important aspect of global communication, and with the continued to advance advancement of IT during this period; the internet has become an important communication tool. Moreover, the fast growth of the internet has been buoyed by the increasing recognition of freedom of speech across the world. However, it is the potential impacts of the unregulated internet that have necessitated calls to regulate the Internet under public international law. Currently, there is no clear legal framework under international law that governs the regulation of the internet. At the local or ...

International law represents a complex concept, which requires careful attention. Various views provide various definitions of international law, and all of them can include the point that it represents a set of rules that the States bound to observe (Kaczorowska, 2015, p. 1). The topic of individuals within international law and their status is quite controversial, and it has changed throughout the history. Different positions explain the issue of the individuals as subjects to international law from different sides. This problem has gone through rejections and affirmations many times, and it has been under discussion for almost as long ...

International Laws

Questions One: International laws in order of priority in line with their importance to international politics, in this paper’s view, are as follows: public international law, conflict of laws, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, international law of war, international arms control, international environmental law and international trade law, the law of the sea and international financial law. Public international law concerns itself with the state responsibilities as among states and other international personalities. Conflict of laws deals with issues of jurisdiction where international parties of different jurisdictions are involved. International criminal law concerns itself with ...

Introduction

Henry Kissinger was perhaps one of the most active and important Secretaries of State. His forceful intervention in several questions such as the Vietnam War as well as his propping up of General Gustavo Augusto Pinochet makes him a reviled figure amongst those who have democracy at heart (Bass, p 275). This paper seeks to argue that Kissinger should indeed be hauled in front of an International War Crimes Tribunal largely due to his intervention, covert or non-covert in several mass genocides. Two of these are those in Bangladesh in 1971 where the Pakistani Army was given US backing to ...

Let’s assume that al-Qaeda managed to hack into every major power grid in the United States and shut them down. The nation’s economy would be devastated. Such an act of cyber-terrorism would be catastrophic (Bernadette & Clemens, 2006, p.78-79, 122) for the United States. Although this is just an assumption, hackers constantly look for ways to hack into the U.S. government computer systems throughout the day (Mount, 2009). The fact of the matter is that the critical U.S. infrastructure is extremely vulnerable due to being accessible via the Internet. Perhaps the same can be said about other nations ...