Response of Jean-Marie Henckaerts to the U.S. Joint Letter from John Bellinger III, Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, and William J. Haynes, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Defense to Dr. Jakob Kellenberger, President, International Committee of the Red Cross, Regarding Customary International Law Study

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 957-968
Author(s):  
Dennis Mandsager
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
General Counsel ◽  
Customary International Law ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Legal Adviser ◽  
The U.S

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

1969 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-336
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Law ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Counsel ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Legal Adviser ◽  
Contemporary Practice

The material for this section is compiled by Stephen L. Gibson, attorney in the Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State. Jerome H. Silber, of the Office of the General Counsel, Department of Defense, has provided material originating in that Department.

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

1966 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-399
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Law ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Counsel ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Legal Adviser ◽  
Contemporary Practice

The material for this section is compiled by Charles I. Bevans, Assistant Legal Adviser, Department of State. Alfred P. Rubin, of the Office of the General Counsel, Department of Defense, and Bruno A. Ristau, of the Department of Justice, provide material originating in their respective Departments.

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

1964 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 992-1010
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Law ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Counsel ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Legal Adviser ◽  
Contemporary Practice

The material for this section has been prepared by a committee consisting of Harold S. Burman, Stanley L. Cohen, Thomas T. F. Huang, and Sylvia B. Nilsen, under the chairmanship of Richard B. Bilder, all of the Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State. Mr. Alfred P. Rubin, of the Office of the General Counsel, Department of Defense, has provided the committee with material originating in the Department of Defense.

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

1964 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-187
Author(s):  
Herman T. F. Lum
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Law ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Counsel ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Legal Adviser ◽  
Contemporary Practice

The material for this section has been prepared by a committee consisting of Richard B. Bilder, Harold S. Burman, Stanley L. Cohen, Thomas T. F. Huang, Sylvia E. Nilsen, and Herbert K. Reis under the chairmanship of Ernest L. Kerley, all of the Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State. Mr. Alfred P. Rubin of the Office of General Counsel, Department of Defense, has provided the committee with material originating in the Department of Defense.

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

1964 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 454-487
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Law ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Counsel ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Legal Adviser ◽  
Contemporary Practice

The material for this section has been prepared by a committee consisting of HAROLD S. BURMAN, STANLEY L. COHEN, THOMAS T. F. HUANG, and SYLVIA E. NILSEN, under the chairmanship of RICHARD B. BILDER, all of the Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State. Mr. ALFRED P. RUBIN, of the Office of the General Counsel, Department of Defense, has provided the committee with material originating in the Department of Defense.

scholarly journals Does Custom Have A Source?

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 179-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bodansky
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Customary International Law ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
International Court ◽  
Clear Idea ◽  
Death Penalty Case ◽  
The U.S

Customary international law often seems like a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. According to Manley O. Hudson, even the drafters of the International Court of Justice Statute “had no very clear idea as to what constituted international custom.” The situation has not changed much since then.I got my first taste of the difficulties in identifying custom when I was a junior attorney at the U.S. Department of State and was assigned the task of preparing the U.S. submission in a juvenile death penalty case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The juvenile death penalty is prohibited by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the American Convention on Human Rights, but the question in the Inter-American Commission case was whether it is also prohibited as a matter of customary international law.

The Role of the Legal Adviser of the Department of State

1991 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 358-371 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Law ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Decisionmaking Process ◽  
Legal Adviser ◽  
American Society ◽  
The U.S

In October 1988 the American Branch of the International Law Association and the American Society of International Law established a Joint Committee on the Role of the Legal Adviser of the Department of State. The Committee’s charge was to examine the role of the Legal Adviser in encouraging respect for international law in the U.S. government decisionmaking process, and to make suggestions and recommendations to enhance the Legal Adviser’s effectiveness in this regard. The thirty-four members of the Committee included nine former Legal Advisers, a former President’s counsel, other past and present U.S. government officials, academics and private attorneys. Collectively, the Committee reflected broad experience and a variety of perspectives as regards issues of U.S. foreign policy and international law. (The members of the Committee are listed in footnote 1.)

Agora: The U.S. Decision not to Ratify Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions on the Protection of War Victims (Cont’d)

1988 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 784-787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham D. Sofaer
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
Legal Adviser ◽  
War Victims ◽  
The U.S

The October 1987 issue of the Journal contains an article written by Hans-Peter Gasser, the Legal Adviser to the Directorate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), on the U.S. decision not to ratify Protocol I (on international armed conflicts) to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the Protection of War Victims. Unfortunately, the Journal did not include any response by the administration, but only the President’s necessarily brief letter of transmittal to the Senate of January 18, 1987, recommending advice and consent to ratification of Protocol II (on noninternational conflicts). The President’s letter of transmittal was not intended to be an exhaustive statement of the U.S. objections to Protocol I, nor does it purport to be such.

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