LAW INTERNATIONAL
ORGANISATION EXAM
REVISION SUMMARY
Quebec referendum
1995
exclusive economic zone
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
1982
Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS I) at
Geneva, Switzerland
1958
Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
1960
Stateless persons
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 15 affirms
that （1） Everyone has the right to a nationality. （2）No
one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor
denied the right to change his nationality.
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT)
1969, Article 1 defines a treaty as "an international
agreement concluded between states in written form and
governed by international law,"
Hague Conventions
1899, 1907
1949 Geneva Convention I
, Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in
Armed Forces in the Field.
1949 Geneva Convention II
Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and
Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea.
1949 Geneva Convention III
Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
1949 Geneva Convention IV
Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of
War.
Accretion
refers to the physical expansion of an existing territory
through geographical processes, such as alluvion (the
deposit of sediment) or vulcanism.
Cession
A state may acquire sovereignty over territory if that
sovereignty is ceded (transferred) to it by another state.
Cession is typically effected by treaty.
Conquest
Direct annexation, the acquisition of territory by way of
force. By the end of the Napoleonic period however,
invasion and annexation ceased to be recognized by
international law and were no longer accepted as a means
of territorial acquisition.
Effective occupation
is the control of free newly discovered territory exercised
by a power with no sovereign title to the land, whether in
defiance or absence of a proper sovereign.
Prescription
is related to occupation, and refers to the acquisition of
sovereignty by way of the actual exercise of sovereignty,
ORGANISATION EXAM
REVISION SUMMARY
Quebec referendum
1995
exclusive economic zone
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
1982
Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS I) at
Geneva, Switzerland
1958
Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
1960
Stateless persons
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 15 affirms
that （1） Everyone has the right to a nationality. （2）No
one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor
denied the right to change his nationality.
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT)
1969, Article 1 defines a treaty as "an international
agreement concluded between states in written form and
governed by international law,"
Hague Conventions
1899, 1907
1949 Geneva Convention I
, Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in
Armed Forces in the Field.
1949 Geneva Convention II
Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and
Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea.
1949 Geneva Convention III
Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
1949 Geneva Convention IV
Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of
War.
Accretion
refers to the physical expansion of an existing territory
through geographical processes, such as alluvion (the
deposit of sediment) or vulcanism.
Cession
A state may acquire sovereignty over territory if that
sovereignty is ceded (transferred) to it by another state.
Cession is typically effected by treaty.
Conquest
Direct annexation, the acquisition of territory by way of
force. By the end of the Napoleonic period however,
invasion and annexation ceased to be recognized by
international law and were no longer accepted as a means
of territorial acquisition.
Effective occupation
is the control of free newly discovered territory exercised
by a power with no sovereign title to the land, whether in
defiance or absence of a proper sovereign.
Prescription
is related to occupation, and refers to the acquisition of
sovereignty by way of the actual exercise of sovereignty,
