In 1962 the World Court ruled that Preah Vihear, which sits on a ridge, was on Cambodian soil.
So if America is willing to prosecute its own war criminals, it should have nothing to fear from a world court.
After all, the Treaty identifies the World Court as one of four "arbitral tribunals" which must be used to resolve disputes under LOST.
After the executions were cleared to proceed in the US, Mexico went back to the world court last month to stop the sentences from being carried out.
Parties to the accord, moreover, are compelled to submit to what will, inevitably, be politicized tribunals like the World Court, whose decisions are binding and unappealable.
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"Texas is bound not by the World Court, but by the US Supreme Court, which reviewed this matter and determined that the convicted murderer's execution shall proceed, " the statement said.
The day after the United Nations ratified a world court to try war criminals, sympathizers of the Palestinian intifada demanded that Israeli leaders be the first defendants.
Libya's case against both countries at the World Court continues.
If we were talking about the World Court or at least a permanent war crimes court applicable to all countries, there would be no opposition from Serbs to Milosevic's extradition.
The pact is designed to place fishing rights, deep-sea mining, global pollution and more under the control of a new global bureaucracy, with disputes adjudicated by a new world court.
Now, in a sign that virtual issues increasingly are bleeding into the real world, some "residents" of Second Life are taking virtual property rights to real-world court, citing California consumer protection laws to make their case.
Murrow was pulled into the great issues of the day ("Resolved, the United States should join the World Court"), and perhaps it's Ruth Lawson whom we modern broadcast journalists should thank for engaging our founder in world affairs.
In fact, while serving as the state's chief litigator, Cruz took on the George W. Bush administration, the World Court, and 90 foreign nations who challenged Texas' right to execute an illegal immigrant who had raped and murdered two teenagers in the state -- and he won.
Notably, at the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference in New York where this statement was unveiled, some among the roughly 500 participating non- governmental organizations (NGOs) declared their intention to ask the World Court to order the nuclear weapon states to set a timetable for complete nuclear disarmament.
On Monday, the dispute got even hotter as the United States formally sued China in world trade court.
The conclusion was that the legal problems surrounding a world bankruptcy court were insurmountable.
The goods were eventually located and returned, and five hotel workers were convicted of the thefts by a special World Cup court.
And Canada chaired the 1998 conference to set up a world criminal court at which the United States was one of only seven states opposed.
Mr Bush has appointed a host of officials who reject multilateralism or at least many United Nations activities, treaties on global warming, nuclear tests and a world criminal court, or joint action on tax havens.
Fortunately the legality of poison pill plans was finally called into question in a case that sat before the most important business court in the world, the Delaware Chancery Court.
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More specifically, the World Bank investment court, called the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
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Still, we are in an entirely new world not just on the court, but also in the marketing world.
John Bellinger, the State Department's legal advisor, says officials are already working out the modalities of moving the Taylor trial to the International Criminal Court, the world's first anti-war crimes tribunal and a court the U.S. opposes.
The Italian trials, which began in 2007, were the first in the world to bring to court cases involving extraordinary rendition, the CIA's practice of transferring terror suspects to countries where torture is permitted.
America is taking this position because officials believe that as it is the most powerful country in the world, an international court could be used to mount frivolous and politically motivated actions against its citizens.
It took a growing recognition that segregation was not only wrong, but hurting the development of this country and staining its reputation in the rest of the world, before the Court worked up the courage to outlaw it.
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"As concerned ... restrictive conditions and lack of human contact, the court found that, if the applicants were convicted as charged, the U.S. authorities would be justified in considering them a significant security risk and in imposing strict limitations on their ability to communicate with the outside world, " the court ruled.
Ms Gavison argues that no other court in the world has simply given itself such powers without a written constitution.
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