DOCTRINES, WORDS AND PHRASES USED IN PUBLIC

INTERNATIONAL LAW
CONVENTIONS, TREATIES, AGREEMENTS

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Terra nullius
Usque ad coelum
Res communis
Cannon shot rule
Three mile rule
Twelve mile rule
Right of Innocent Passage
Exclusive economic Zone or
patrimonial sea
9 High seas and six freedoms
10 Hot pursuit
11 Mutatis mutandi
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Nullem crimen sine lege

nulla poena sine lege
Dispute
Non-judicial, quasi-judicial and judicial
methods
Contentious jurisdiction; advisory
jurisdiction of ICJ
Optional system of submitting to the
jurisdiction of ICJ
Erga Omnes
Compromis darbitrage
Forum Prorogatum
Ex aequo et bono
Mutatis Mutandis
International Environmental Law

1. Stockholm Declaration of 1972 ;

Principles 1 to 26
2. Rio Declaration of 1992 ; Principles 1
to 27
3. 1982 Law of the Sea Articles 192-194
4. Framework Convention on Climate

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Diplomatic protection
Effective national link
Doctrine of effective link
Standards for protection of aliens
a. Doctrine of national treatment or
equality of treatment
b. Minimum international standard
5. Doctrine on state responsibility
6. Drago doctrine
7. Internationally wrongful act ; elements,
subjective and objective;
characterization
8. Acts of state organs
9. Acts of other persons
10. Acts of revolutionaries
11. Preliminary objections;
12. Reparations
13. Expropriation

1. Self Help
2. Conditions of necessity and
proportionality in resort
to Self Defence under Art 51
3. Exception to rule prohibiting force
4. Concept of Armed attack
5. Anticipatory self defense
6. Self Help measures
a. Severance of diplomatic relations
b. Retorsion
c. Reprisal
d. Embargo ; types; arret de prince;
jus angariae

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a. Vienna Convention for the Protection
of Ozone Layer of 1985
b. United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development 1992
c. Kyoto Protocol 1999,
5. Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and
Flora, 1973
6. Convention on Biological Diversity 1992
7. Treaty of Rome of 1957
8. 1994 North American Agreement on
Environmental Cooperation
9. 1991 Protocol on Environmental
Protection to the Antartic Treaty of
1992
10. Amazon Declaration 1989
International Economic Law
1. Objectives of the Bretton Woods
Conference 1944
2. International Monetary Fund (IMF)
function
3. International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development (World Bank)
4. International Trade Organization
5. General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
(GATT)
6. World Trade Organization(WTO)
7. Havana Charter
8. Uruguay Round of 1994
9. Marakesh Ministerial meeting 1994
10. Key Principles of International Trade
Law
a. Agreed Tariff levels
b. Most favored nation principle
c. Principle of national treatment
d. Principle of tariffication
11. Exception to the Key Principles of
International Trade Law
12. Dispute Resolution Body (DSB)
Understanding on Rules and Procedures

e. Boycott
f. Non-intercourse
g. Pacific blockade and hostile
blockade
h. Intervention
7. Protection of Nationals abroad
8. Humanitarian Intervention
9. Jus ad bellum and Jus in bello
10. International armed conflict
11. Hors de combat ; Basic rules of
International Humanitarian Law in
Armed Conflicts
12. Neutrality
13. Non International Conflicts - a) Civil
Wars; b) Common Article 3
14. International Terrorism
15. War; act of war; state of war
16. Aggression defined in UN General
Assembly Resolution 33-14
a. Invasion or attack
b. Bombardment
c. Blockade of ports or coasts
d. Use of armed forces
e. Allowing use of territory against 3rd
state
f. Sending armed groups or
mercenaries
17. Genocide; types or acts of genocide
18. Mercenaries ; defined in Protocol I ,
Article 47 of Geneva Convention
19. Crimes against Humanity
20. War Crimes Article 8 of ICC Statutes
21. Principle of State Consent

Governing the Settlement of Disputes

(DSU) (1994)
Terms used for treaty or international
agreement
1. Act; Final Act; Protocol de
cloture
2. Agreement, Arrangement or
accord
3. Compormis darbitrage
4. Concordat
5. Convention
6. Covenant
7. Declaration
8. Exchange of notes
9. Exchange of agreement
10. Modus vivendi
11. Pact
12. Protocol
13. Statute
14. Charter
15. Cartel
16. General Act
17. Gentlemens agreement
18. Memoire or memorandum
19. Note verbale
20. Pactum de contrahendo
21. Proces verbal
22. Proposal
23. Punctationes
24. Resume
25. Sponsion sub sperati
26. Rebus sic stantibus
27. Exequator
28. Letters rogatory
29. Lettre de creance
30. Lettre de patent
31. Lettre de provisions
32. Parallel System
33. Climate Change definition
34. Greenhouse gases
35. Ne bis in idem