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International Legal Personality
2006One frequently mentioned right, guaranteed by the Universal Declaration, is the right to legal personality. Everyone has the right everywhere to recognition as a person before the law.1 Many legal systems also recognize some non-human “persons” as legal persons under law.
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International Legal Personality
Broadly speaking, “legal personality” is the ability of an entity to assert rights and incur duties within a given regime of law. Through this legal endowment, “persons” are actionably distinguished from “things.” Arguably, any order that falls within the category of “legal system” must possess some mechanism for determining which entities can or ...openaire +2 more sources
International Humanitarian Law and International Legal Personality
2017This purpose of this chapter is to determine what the framework of international humanitarian law demonstrates about the material and theoretical circumstances that are required in order for armed groups to acquire international legal personality under international humanitarian law.
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Legal Personality in International Law
2010Several international legal issues are related to the concept of legal personality, including the determination of international rights and duties of non-state actors and the legal capacities of transnational institutions. When addressing these issues, different understandings of legal personality are employed.
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Subjects of International Law and International Legal Personality
2019The chapter proposes that a wider concept of “subject of international law” is required. It recalls the concepts of sovereignty and subject of international law which were distinct and broader in the middle ages that in the time after the Peace of Westphalia, as this underlines that the notion of subject of international law may be thought about in a ...
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The Legal Personality of International Organizations
2017There has in the past been a considerable amount of controversy on the question whether public international organizations can be regarded as possessing legal personality. The Charter of the United Nations leaves on one side the concept of legal personality and provides that "The Organization shall enjoy in the territory of each of its Members such ...
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Legal Personality of International Organizations
2011The paper discusses the process through which an international organization may acquire international legal personality and the main features of such a personality. It also touches upon issues of international responsibility and immunities that are fully treated elsewhere in this book.
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