BOYLE, Francis Anthony, Palestine, Palestinians and International Law

"COVID-19" and International Law: Prosecution of China in International Court of Justice

"COVID-19", which was first seen in China in December 2019, outbreak worldwide in a short time and took the lives of many people around the world. In addition to claims concerning Chinachr('39')s fault in creating the disease and failing to prevent its spread, it is seriously claimed that China has delayed and sometimes incorrectly reported information concerning disease to the World Health Org...

International Law, International Relations and Compliance

Commitments are a persistent feature of international affairs. Disagreement over the effect of international commitments and the causes of compliance with them is equally persistent. Yet in the last decade the long-standing divide between those who believed that international rules per se shaped state behavior and those who saw such rules as epiphenomena1 or insignificant has given way to a mor...

Health in interwar Palestine: ethnic realities and international views.

This paper analyses the developments of the separate Jewish and Arab health systems and health realities. It is found that the activities of charitable institutions, the attitude of the British mandate government and different traditions of medical policy all played a part in the emergence of two separate health worlds. The influx of foreign funding for private health institutions, in particula...

Law, Politics, and International Governance

International law and communicable diseases.

Historically, international law has played a key role in global communicable disease surveillance. Throughout the nineteenth century, international law played a dominant role in harmonizing the inconsistent national quarantine regulations of European nation-states; facilitating the exchange of epidemiological information on infectious diseases; establishing international health organizations; a...