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Is "UN law" a thing?
The Law (capital "L") requires a social contract to be established and upheld to be valid (otherwise it is not different from a dictatorship or other tyrant). This social contract is the ...
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Is "UN law" a thing?
The Vienna International Center in, unsurprising, Vienna, is an extraterritorial area with a complex set of legalities, including international laws and UN Treaties. In a sufficiently casual ...
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Is "UN law" a thing?
When the UN administered Kosovo from 1999 to (de facto) 2008, Kosovo and all of its cities could technically be described as "under UN law." But this is misleading, because the UN expressly ...
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Is "UN law" a thing?
While there is currently no such thing as "UN Law" there are U.N. peacekeeping missions.
It isn't implausible that at some future date in a small geographic area, a U.N. peacekeeping mission ...
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Is "UN law" a thing?
International law deals with the interaction of states, it doesn't have anything to say on municipial administration. There are various declarations, treaties, etc, that could reasonably be called &...
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