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The Office of the Legal Adviser publishes the annual Digest of United States Practice in International Law to provide the public with a historical record of the views and practice of the Government of the United States in public and private international law. In his introduction to the 2006 Digest, Legal Adviser John B. Bellinger, III, stated in part: "During 2006 my colleagues and I continued to engage our international partners in intensive discussions about the appropriate legal framework for the detention and treatment of international terrorists. . . . Armed conflicts during the year including those involving Israel, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, and Iraq raised other issues related to the law of war. "The United States welcomed the International Committee of the Red Cross' study on the customary international law of the law of war and provided what we believe are constructive initial comments on certain aspects of methodology that raise questions about the study's conclusions. "But these issues were, of course, only one facet of the office's practice during the year. The United States dispatched to Geneva two separate large, senior-level interagency delegations to present and discuss with the UN Committee Against Torture and the Human Rights Committee U.S. implementation of its obligations under the Convention Against Torture and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. . . . "The office continued to play a leading role in the development of U.S. treaty law and practice. . . . "In U.S. courts, the year saw further developments related to the applicability of the Alien Tort Statute, U.S. consular notification obligations under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, and the scope of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, including several Supreme Court decisions on consular notification and immunities. . . ."

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Department of State
Date Released
12/01/2007
Date Updated
12/01/2007
Time Period
2006
Frequency
Annually
High Value Dataset
Y
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N
Dataset Information
Data.gov Data Category Type
Raw Data Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation
Research
Unique ID
4319
Extended Type
Raw Data
Dataset Coverage
Unit of Analysis
International Law
Geographic Coverage
International
Data Description
Collection Mode
person/computer, person/phone, person/paper, fax, web
Data Collection Instrument
http://www.state.gov/s/l/c24878.htm
Data Dictionary
http://www.state.gov/s/l/c24878.htm
Data Quality
Data Quality Certification
Yes
Privacy and Confidentiality
Yes
Applicable Information Quality Guideline Designation
Department of State
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Data.gov Program Management Office

Data.gov Program Management Office

created Feb 18, 2011

updated May 11, 2011

Description

The Office of the Legal Adviser publishes the annual Digest of United States Practice in International Law to provide the public with a historical record of the views and practice of the Government of the United States in public and private international law. In his introduction to the 2006 Digest, Legal Adviser John B. Bellinger, III, stated in part: "During 2006 my colleagues and I continued to engage our international partners in intensive discussions about the appropriate legal framework for the detention and treatment of international terrorists. . . . Armed conflicts during the year including those involving Israel, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, and Iraq raised other issues related to the law of war. "The United States welcomed the International Committee of the Red Cross' study on the customary international law of the law of war and provided what we believe are constructive initial comments on certain aspects of methodology that raise questions about the study's conclusions. "But these issues were, of course, only one facet of the office's practice during the year. The United States dispatched to Geneva two separate large, senior-level interagency delegations to present and discuss with the UN Committee Against Torture and the Human Rights Committee U.S. implementation of its obligations under the Convention Against Torture and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. . . . "The office continued to play a leading role in the development of U.S. treaty law and practice. . . . "In U.S. courts, the year saw further developments related to the applicability of the Alien Tort Statute, U.S. consular notification obligations under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, and the scope of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, including several Supreme Court decisions on consular notification and immunities. . . ."

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China, capital punishment, psychotropic, Montenegro, bilateral investment treaties, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pan Am 103, military, export controls, commercial law, sanctions, state sponsor, treaties, Italy, jurisdiction, terrorist, defense articles, Sierra Leone, NATO, Ukraine, labor law, General Assembly, Sudan, weapons convention, investment, International Maritime Organization, Cuba, labor issues, non-proliferation, Guantanamo, maritime, World Trade Organization, smuggling, intellectual property, WTO, Avena, Council of Europe, self-defense, children, Burma, interdiction, NAFTA, torture, organized crime, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Mexico, AIDS, ICJ, money laundering, Lebanon, President, IAEA, Service of Process, Legal Adviser, Supreme Court, bills of lading, nuclear, North American Free Trade Agreement, environment, Israel, arms control, drugs, Palestinian Authority, corruption, preservation, intervention, Colombia, marine, drug trade, International Criminal Court, counterterrorism, protocol, peacekeeping, constitution, France, extradition, biological weapons, Department of State, privileges and immunities, Oman, Poland, Middle East, Eritrea, border, William J. Clinton, agreement, chemical weapons, Marshall Islands, narcotic, Bolivia, Venezuela, crime, Sweden, missile, foreign missions, statute, cultural object, international organization, Belarus, war crimes, Russia, Northern Mariana Islands, FSIA, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, act of state, Moldova, Special Court for Sierra Leone, exports, law of the sea, court, national security, Afghanistan, armed conflict, Deputy Secretary, Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, cultural property, Arctic, marine environment, comity, KEDO, Holocaust, electronic commerce, Somalia, Armenia, foreign affairs, prisoner transfer, International Law Commission, West Bank, George W. Bush, conservation, Hague, Gaza, Bosnia, arbitration, Libya, counter-terrorism, sovereign, jus cogens, alien, HIV, deportation, Al Qaeda, detention, Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, international humanitarian law, overflight, diplomatic, family, Czech Republic, immunities, law enforcement, Syria, Haiti, diplomatic note, genocide, Secretary of State, testimony, space, Iraq, Liberia, pollution, Alien Tort Statute, immunity, claims, Yemen, gender, Vietnam, drug trafficking, Iran, Ethiopia, trade, Vienna, travel restrictions, carriage of goods, refugee, former Yugoslavia, OECD, compliance, Organization of American States, Croatia, Article 36, International Court of Justice, defense, ILC, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, citizenship, United Kingdom, use of force, juidicial assistance, criminal, Peru, UNIDROIT, mutual legal assistance, Alien Tort Claims Act, Algiers Accords, North Korea, Al-Qaida, human rights, Vienna Convention, consular, immigration, aviation, India, Uruguay, data, Japan, customary international law, licensing, forum non conveniens, African Union, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Germany, proliferation, Mauritius, detainee, Panama, United Nations, asylum, Taliban, trafficking [note: search for "traffi"], state responsibility, Darfur, Geneva, oil, Hungary, naturalization, Canada, Yugoslavia, softwood lumber, migrant, intercountry adoption, international law, UNCITRAL, passport, Philippines, [note: search for "armed confl"], religious freedom, nonproliferation, Bahrain, Rwanda, state court, European Union, family law, fish, Turkey, convention, San Marino, Security Council, Indonesia, navigation, weapons of mass destruction, political rights, international child abduction, tribunals, reciprocity, visa, treaty practice, Brazil, Red Cross, Monaco, terrorism
Licensing and Attribution
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Dataset Summary
Agency
Department of State
Date Released
12/01/2007
Date Updated
12/01/2007
Time Period
2006
Frequency
Annually
High Value Dataset
Y
Suggested by Public
N
Dataset Information
Data.gov Data Category Type
Raw Data Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation
Research
Unique ID
4319
Extended Type
Raw Data
Dataset Coverage
Unit of Analysis
International Law
Geographic Coverage
International
Data Description
Collection Mode
person/computer, person/phone, person/paper, fax, web
Data Collection Instrument
http://www.state.gov/s/l/c24878.htm
Data Dictionary
http://www.state.gov/s/l/c24878.htm
Data Quality
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Yes
Privacy and Confidentiality
Yes
Applicable Information Quality Guideline Designation
Department of State