This article examines the legal, theoretical and practical issues for participation of an authorised interpreter in criminal proceedings. Based on the analysis of international and national normative sources an investigation is conducted into legal personality of an interpreter, requirements...

Contemporary international humanitarian law (IHL) classifies all armed conflicts into two basic groups - international and non-international. In international armed conflict is clear distinguishing between civilian and combatants. The civilian has right on immunity of the attack, unless is...

With moving from the rules of common law, responsibility of international law is to form binding rules, which is valid for all of international community, and to provide international community to feel itself subjected to these rules. This responsibility entails to reconsider the traditional...

The Montevideo Convention of the Rights and Duties of States (1933) codified the declarative theory of statehood as accepted as part of customary international law and laid down the five requirements for statehood which are often summarized as 'the principle of effectivity': (a) permanent...

As a response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States have introduced the policy of targeted killings – targeting individual suspect terrorists and killing them, most often using the unmanned drones operated by the CIA. Likewise, Israel has begun with the same practice, responding...

The nature of armed conflict changed dramatically in the 1990s. Interstate wars were replaced by violent intrastate conflicts, which caused the casualties and death of many civilians. Due to the proliferation of internal conflicts which resulted in humanitarian crises, the international...

International law institutes of recognition of states and succession of states are closely interrelated and the latter is in some instances dependant on the former and comes afterwards. However, the relation is mutual - in some cases the undertaking to solve the questions of succession was...

Many groups such as Jews, Gypsies, Slavs or the homosexuals were labelled as ‘undesirables’ during the Nazi era. Jews Especially were presented as the enemy of the Aryan ‘master race’ according to the Nazi ideology. Even though gypsies continue to face public prejudices and...

As a consequence of the growing life expectancy there is a growing cost for public health policy, since there is a growing number of degenerative diseases. There are new diseases appearing and also the necessity of new medicaments in order to grant a better life quality for the population. But...

The Montevideo Convention of the Rights and Duties of States (1933) codified the declarative theory of statehood as accepted as part of customary international law and laid down the five requirements for statehood which are often summarized as 'the principle of effectivity': (a) permanent...