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The Issue of Self-Defense and the UN Charter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Louis B. Sohn
Louis B. Sohn*
Affiliation:
George Washington University National Law Center
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The UN Charter as History
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 89 , 1995 , pp. 52 - 57
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1995

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References

1 Article 36(5) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice.

2 Id., Article 37.

3 See 1 Foreign Relations Of The United States, 1944, 862 (1966); Russell, Ruth, A History of the UN charter: The role of the united states, 1940-1945, at 465–466 (1958)Google Scholar.

4 See FOR. REL., supra note 3, 1945, Vol. I at 229-230, 426-429, 593-595 (1967).

5 For text, see 9 Hudson, Manley O. AND Sohn, Louis B., International Legislation 283, 288 (Part I, paras. 5-6, 1950)Google Scholar. As these provisions were applicable only during World War II, the parties agreed to conclude a permanent treaty for future protection against threats or acts of aggression, which was concluded at Rio de Janeiro in 1947. For text of that Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, see 21 UN Treaty Series 77, reprinted in 43 AJIL Supp. 53 (1949).

6 See The Private Papers Of Senator Vandenberg 189 (Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr., ed.) (1952).

7 Concerning that book, see infra, note 9 and the text preceding it.

8 For text of Article 7(11) of the Convention, see Hudson, Manley O., International Legislation 744, 750 (1931)Google Scholar.

9 The full text is reprinted in International Conciliation, No. 399 (April 1944), and in 38 AJIL Supp. 45 (1944). For comment to principle 7 and the reference to the Aaland Islands Convention, see id., at 84-86.

10 3 Documents Of The United Nations Conference On International Organizations 265, 269-270 (1945).

11 See the first report of the International Law Commission, General Assembly Official Records, 4th Session, Supp. No. 10 (A/295), at 7 (1949). See also Article 12 of the Commission’s draft, relating to self-defense, id., at 8.

12 See For. Rel., 1945, supra note 4, at 659, 664-685, 691-710, 812-825, 831-837. See also Russell, supra note 3, at 698-703. The italics are the author’s.

13 Security Council Resolution 678 (1990), para. 2.