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J. H. H. Weiler Reply to the Laudatio on the Occasion of the Conferal of the Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Bucharest, April 30th 2013
Professor Weiler received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bucharest after a lifelong career dedicated to the study and practice of international and European law. In his reply to the Laudatio he explored the question of justice, through an overview of its ecclesiastic roots. In this respect, he identifies four important elements: the rejection of collective
punishment, the connection between the idea of justice and the existence of God, the source of
injustice in the world, and the need to maintain coherence in God’s way to do justice
Alternatives to withdrawal from an International Organization: The Case of the EEC
Abbreviated adaptation of a study prepared for the Nathan Feinberg Festschrift (20 Israel Law Review 282 (1986))
Crimes of State
None of the Draft Articles on State Responsibility adopted by the International Law Commission has provoked as much controversy as Article 19 on Crimes of State. Yet, strangely enough, even if the issues themselves have received exhaustive treatment, the debate about the issues, the debate which divides proposers of, and opposers to, the adoption of the new category of State Responsibility, has remained largely unexplored.
It is this second dimension which will be the focal point of these brief remarks - concluding the Florence Conference on State Responsibility and Crimes of State. What interests me here, therefore, as distinct from most other contributions to the ongoing discussion, is not the notion of Crimes of State in itself but rather the international law Weltanschauung of those, states and particularly scholars, debating the concept. Why is it that some scholars and some states espouse, even enthusiastically, the concept whereas others reject it, at times as anathema
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