This study investigates whether there is a basis to assert that there is a duty of international cooperation or if the collaboration among states is only an act of courtesy. This work seeks to justify that duty on the deontological…

According to Mexico's legal system hierarchy of norms, at the top stands the Constitution, followed by International Treaties, and then the Federal and Local laws. This hierarchy of norm derives from the Federal system adopted by Mexico more than 130…

The article studies, from the concept of necessity developed by international law, the developing debate of the state of economic necessity and the way it operates as a circumstance precluding wrongfulness in the doctrine of Responsibility of States for Internationally…

The article studies, from the concept of necessity developed by international law, the developing debate of the state of economic necessity and the way it operates as a circumstance precluding wrongfulness in the doctrine of Responsibility of States for Internationally…

The British withdrawal from the European Union is an extremely topical issue, casting doubts in the scholars as we are facing a new subject that had been unsuspected until the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom announced a referendum on…

The relentless "Global War on Terrorism", headed by the United States after the events of 11-S of 2001, it has been a source of important negative consequences for the protection of the fundamental human rights. The approval or application of…

The present study analyzes the compensation of environmental damage as a legal principle. The principle arises first within the international public sphere and then is embraced by different national legal systems, such as the Mexican one. The principle is studied…

The present study analyzes the compensation of environmental damage as a legal principle. The principle arises first within the international public sphere and then is embraced by different national legal systems, such as the Mexican one. The principle is studied…

Due to the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (here in after just "the Rome Statute") by Mexico and in light of the Court´s complementarity principle, the author establishes a necessity of implementing, at the national…

This article explains the rationale behind a study on Customary international humanitarian law recently undertaken by the ICRC at the request of the Internatio- nal Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. It describes the methodology used and how…