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State Responsibility: Circumstance Precluding Wrongfulness

Learn about the defenses available to states when they violate international law.

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This is the second of three lessons on the rules of state responsibility. In this video we’ll examine the defenses available to states following an international wrongful act.

I.               State Responsibility

State responsibility is the term used to refer to the expectations of a state when it violates an obligation under international law. The rules governing state responsibility were collected and synthesized by the...

Lessons

5. Law of War
  • The Law of War and Defining Force
  • Justifications for the Use of Force
  • Humanitarian Law
6. International Criminal Law
  • Theories of Liability in International Criminal Law
  • The International Criminal Court
  • Crimes Subject to ICC Jurisdiction
  • Other International Crimes
7. Human Rights Law
  • Basic Principles of International Human Rights
  • Categories of Human Rights
  • Human Rights Institutions