« Politics under the cover of law: can international law help resolve the Iran nuclear crisis? ». Boston University International Law Journal, Vol. 25, N°2, 2007, pp. 369-426

Law, Politics, and International Governance

The Theoretical Foundations of Jus Cogens in International Law

International Law has it's Constituent elements (legal systems, regimes and collections of rules); Those have  interrelations from which legal networks are created. Having this in mind,  the question is whether these Constituent elements only have horizental nexus or are ordered by means of factors which unified them in a vertical manner and because of that International Law is named legal orde...

Combating Illegal Organ Transplantation Under International Human Rights Law

Despite the fact that the concepts of organ transplantation and organ trafficking seem two completely distinct categories at first glance, sometimes they overlap with each other. This is especially in cases in which organ transplantation occurs from one country to another and for a financial exchange. There are two general indicators for determining the distinction between organ transplantation...

Can international public health law help to prevent war?

Editor – The December 2002 issue invites debate on international law. As noted by Aginam (1), states generally comply with a law or a convention if they see it as being in their interests, however that may be interpreted. That the reverse is true is illustrated vividly by US positions on the Kyoto Accord, the International Court of Justice, and the use of a veto to block relaxation of patent la...

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics

In the context of a normative concretisation of the statute, the term “statute” is not synonymous with the law that can be repeated in light of a concrete case. In this context, the interpreter is the one who (1) “reconstructs” the possibilities contained in the statute, (2) articulates more precisely the contents of these possibilities, and (3) chooses the combination of possibilities that cor...