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A

6 entries

absolute
Absolute Sovereignty
Appellate Body
ARSIWA Article 2
Article 51 (UN Charter)
Asylum

B

2 entries

Basel Ban Amendment
Bilateral Investment Treaty

C

13 entries

Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Casus belli
CEDAW
Chapter VII
Chapter VII Authorization
Charter of the United Nations
Charter-based bodies
CITES Appendix II
Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT)
Conciliation
Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC)
Cyber Norms
Cyber Sovereignty

E

8 entries

Economic Sanctions Snapback
Eleanor Roosevelt's Human Rights Universalism
Entry Into Force Conditions
Equitable Principles in Maritime Delimitation
Ex Gratia Payments
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
Extradition
Extradition Treaty

F

5 entries

Factory at Chorzów
Forum Non Conveniens
Freedom of Navigation
Functional Immunity
Functional Immunity of State Officials

G

1 entry

Geneva Conventions

H

1 entry

Humanitarian Intervention

I

10 entries

ICC (International Criminal Court)
ICESCR
ICJ
ICJ Advisory Proceedings
ICJ vs ICC
Immunity from Execution
Immunity Ratione Materiae
International Court of Justice
International Humanitarian Law
International Refugee Law

J

2 entries

Jus ad Bellum
Jus Cogens Norms

L

1 entry

Letters Rogatory

N

7 entries

negative (reverse) consensus
Non-Derogable Rights
Non-Intervention Principle
Non-Recognition Doctrine
Nonproliferation Regime
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
Nuremberg Trials

O

1 entry

Optional Protocol on Dispute Settlement (VCDR)

P

5 entries

Precautionary principle
Preemptive Self-Defense
Provisional Application
Provisional Entry
Provisional Measures (ICJ)

Q

1 entry

Qualified Majority Voting

R

4 entries

R2P (Responsibility to Protect)
Ratification
Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

S

12 entries

Sanctions Committee
Self-Defense (Article 51)
Serious Breach of a Peremptory Norm
Sixth Committee (Legal)
Sixth Committee (Legal)
Sixth Committee Mechanics
South China Sea Arbitration
Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Sovereignty Paradox
state
Statelessness
Sustainable development

T

10 entries

Tallinn Manual
Tallinn Manual 2.0
Tallinn Manual 3.0
Third-Party Intervention
Transboundary Pollution
Treaty in Force
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
Treaty Regime
Treaty Reservations and Objections
Treaty Termination Clauses

U

3 entries

Ukraine v. Russia (Genocide Convention)
UN Charter (1945): Article 2
UN Responsibility to Protect Doctrine

V

1 entry

Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR)

W

2 entries

Westphalian Sovereignty
World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body