State Responsibility — Claims — In General — Agreement to Guarantee Against Claims of Private Persons — Agreement of Sale Between Belligerent Occupant and Government of Occupied Territory — The Law of the United States of America.

Belligerent Occupation — Act of Government of Occupied State — Whether Authorized by Occupying State — Sale of Surplus Property By One State to the Other — Agreement to Guarantee against Claims of Private Persons — The Law of the United States of America

International law in general — Sources — State practice — Draft treaty reflecting State practice — Draft Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1980 — Provisions relating to islands and delimitation of the continental shelf

Jurisdiction — In general — Territorial — Continental shelf — Principles of delimitation — Islands — Draft Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1980 — Joint development of continental shelf area by two States — Jurisdiction in particular parts of the area — Applicable legislation

Disputes — Conciliation — Function of Conciliation Commission — Search for equitable and acceptable settlement — Use of legal principles — Distinction between Commission and court of law Procedure

State territory — Parts of State territory — Continental shelf Principles for delimitation of continental shelf — Islands — Entitlement of island to continental shelf — Relation between continental shelf and economic zone — Draft Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1980 — Relevance — Natural prolongation — Equidistance method — Role of equitable principles — Need to take acount of one State’s need for hydrocarbons — Greater resources and expertise of other State — Joint development of disputed area by the two States Terms of joint development — Jurisdiction within parts of the area — Applicable legislation — Disputes — Conciliation — Function of Conciliation Commission — Procedure — Distinction between Commission and court of law — Search for equitable and acceptable solution — Sources of international law — State practice — Draft Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1980

Treaties — Interpretation — Consideration of preparatory work — Significance of preparatory work — Preparatory work revealing deliberate omission of any express mention of particular freedom — Whether that freedom entirely excluded from treaty — European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 1951

Disputes — Other international courts — European Court of Human Rights — Procedure — Whether court should consider question proprio motu

The individual in international law — Human rights and freedoms — Freedom of association — Trade union closed shop — Employees engaged before introduction of closed shop required to join specified trade unions when closed shop introduced — Employees refusing to join dismissed — No remedy under domestic law — Whether freedom of association includes freedom not to join an association — Whether being compelled to join a trade union contrary to one's convictions violates freedom of thought and expression — Treaties — Interpretation — Preparatory work — Significance of preparatory work — International courts — Procedure — Whether court should examine questions proprio motu — European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 1950

Aliens — Position of — Protection by national State — Corporations — Requirement that share capital must be owned by nationals of protecting State — British practice.

State responsibility — Kinds of — Responsibility for breaches of contractual obligations — Annulment of contractual obligations incurred by predecessor Government — Penalty deductions improperly made by Imperial Russian Government under contracts with foreign company — Soviet Decree of 1919 annulling claims upon the State in connection with First World War — Claim by foreign company to recover improper penalty payments.

Position and Functions of Diplomatic Envoys — Domicil of Diplomatic Envoys — Notarial Functions — Belgian Law — Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities — The Official Residence of a Diplomatic Envoy — Exterritoriality.

Effect of War on Treaties — Hague Convention on Civil Procedure — Holland and Germany.

Jurisdiction — Exemption from — Foreign Armed Forces — Members of Crew of Foreign Warship Ashore — Relevance of Rejoining the Warship — Surrender for the Purpose of Preliminary Enquiries

Enemy Character of Goods — Passing of Property in Goods Sold in Transitu in Contemplation of the War — Delivery of Goods to Buyers after the Outbreak of War — English Legislation on Trading with the Enemy — Meaning of Goods “in Transit”.

Belligerent Occupation — Requisitions — Conditions and Validity of — Customary International Law of War — Effect upon Obligations under Municipal Law — Whether Operating as Discharge.

Foreign States — Immunity from Jurisdiction — Activities of a Private Law Nature — Soviet Commissariat for Foreign Trade — Waiver of Immunity.

Jurisdiction — Exterritorial Operation of Legislation — Foreign Penal Statute — Whether Enforceable by English Courts — Confiscatory Decrees.

State Responsibility — Denial of Justice — Palpable Miscarriage of Justice — Improper Conduct of Prosecution — Unconscious Susceptibility of Judges to Local Sentiment.

International Administration — Juridical Status of International Bureau of Weights and Measures — International Conventions of Paris (May 20, 1875) and Sèvres (October 6, 1921) — Jurisdiction of French Courts.

States — Recognition of Acts of Foreign States — Acts of Nazi Officials — Repeal of — Effect of.

Belligerent Occupation — Nature and Effects of — Maintenance of Local Law — Jurisdiction — Over Aliens Resident Within Territory — Enemy Aliens — Duties towards State of Residence — Duties towards Home State — Acquisition of Territorial Sovereignty — Annexation during Hostilities — German Annexation of Eupen and Malmédy in 1940.

Belligerent Occupation — Company Domiciled in Occupied Territory — Enemy Character — Transfer of Commercial Domicile to Neutral Territory — Competence to Bring an Action in English Courts.

Enemy Character — Company Domiciled in Occupied Territory — Transfer of Commercial Domicile to Neutral Territory — Competence to Bring an Action in English Courts.

Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — EC Treaty, 1957 — Supremacy of EC law over conflicting provisions of national law — Whether EC law taking precedence even over national constitutional provisions

Treaties — Successive treaty obligations — Existing treaty obligations — EC Treaty, Article 234 — Whether authorizing Member States to exercise rights in intra-Community relations under treaties concluded prior to the EC Treaty which conflict with Community obligations — European Convention on Establishment, 1955, Article 13 — Whether capable of constituting derogation from Article 48(4) of EC Treaty

Treaties — Derogations — Existing treaty obligations — EC Treaty, Article 233 — Scope of derogation permitted to members of Benelux Union from EC treaty rules — Benelux Treaty, 1958, Article 61 — Whether limiting scope of application of Article 48 of EC Treaty — Protocol to EC Treaty on Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Article 2 — Scope of right of Grand Duchy to have its special demographic situation taken into account

Aliens — Freedom of movement of workers — EC rules — Scope of derogations — Employment in public service — Nationality requirement — Permissibility — EC Treaty, Article 48(4) — Scope of exception

International tribunals — Court of Justice of the European Communities — Jurisdiction — Actions against Member States for failure to fulfil treaty obligations — EC Treaty, 1957, Articles 169–71 — Finding of breach by Court of Justice of the European Communities — Whether Court empowered to grant period of grace for compliance with its judgments — The law of the European Community

International Law — Relation to Municipal Law — Abrogation of Treaty Obligations by Municipal Legislation.

Treaties — Abrogation of — Unilateral — Legislation.

Aliens — Expulsion — Anarchists — Expulsion Laws Contrary to Treaties — Abrogation of Treaties by Subsequent Legislation.

Operation and Enforcement of Treaties — Interpretation of Municipal Legislation so as to Preserve Treaty Rights — Admission of Aliens.

Jurisdiction — Over Ports and National Waters — Seamen on Foreign Vessels — Claims for Wages.