PLSC 380F Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Peremptory Norm, Outer Space Treaty, Industrial Espionage
6 Jul 2017
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The importance of jus cogens international law on steroids. International torture law if you"re arguing that this is a jus cogens o ense (that it cannot be legal under any circumstances) (don"t mix up jus cogens with general principles of law) In the news: outer space treaty does the law that apply to states deal with corporations? this was us clearly backing up private companies setting up colonization on the moon no one anticipated the corporate power of the us. Us signed the treaty in the 60s, but this is very i y, extremely provocative but not out of context. 1933"s most extensive census was conducted - and by ibm, and every other corporation was very supportive of the third reich;. In the us, however, we see data as a product. we buy and sell data- it"s a huge industry. very di erent data. Iccpr is what applies to us; the art.
