International Law Reports

Reporting decisions on secession in Canada, genocide in former Yugoslavia and UN human rights decisions.

Volume 115 of the International Law Reports presents decisions of national and international courts relating among other matters to the right of Quebec to secede from Canada, to the punishment of the crime of genocide in former Yugoslavia and decisions of the UN Committee on human rights.The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions of international courts and arbitrators as well as judgments of national courts. Among the cases reported in Volume 115 are the 1998 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada concerning whether Quebec has the right to unilateral secession from Canada, the 1996 judgment concerning the preliminary objections in the case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Yugoslavia) and the 1997 Order on Counter-Claims, and the 1996 decisions of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.