IEEPA's override authority: potential for a violation of the Geneva Conventions' right to access for humanitarian organizations?(International Emergency Economic Powers Act)

Michigan Law Review, August, 2006 by White, Jennifer R.

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
INTRODUCTION 
I. IEEPA AUTHORIZES A BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL 
   HUMANITARIAN LAW 
   A. Impartiality and the Rights of Impartial Humanitarian 
      Organizations under the Conventions 
   B. Conflict of IEEPA Restrictions with 
      Convention Rights 
II. IMPLICATIONS OF IEEPA's OVERRIDE AUTHORITY 
   A. Application of the Charming Betsy Canon 
   B. Domestic Legal Implications of a Violation of 
      the Geneva Conventions 
   C. International Legal Implications of a Violation 
      of the Geneva Conventions 
   D. Policy Implications of a Violation of the Conventions 
CONCLUSION 

INTRODUCTION

Armed conflict creates the need for humanitarian aid. International law creates the mechanisms by which parties provide humanitarian aid and...

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