BIOL 4253 Lecture : Lecture16 CommunityEcology Fall2014
Document Summary
Functions of io: project foreign policy of nation states, modify state behavior, independent actors on world scene. Independent actors on world scene affects legal personality most: member states create ios & write charters that give ios power so that they may act on their own. China thinks choice is wrong: ios gain their own id as time goes on. Founding charter gives id & creates legal personality: when ios are created, their founding docs serve as birth certificate. Collective will of member states nation states create the organization; therefore, they determine full extent of legal function: ex: member states allowed un to intervene in domestic disputes in. Un said killing of kurdish minority was human tragedy that resembled genocide: ex: un ga passed act in 2012 to take action in syria. Member states look into charter & assume articles imply certain powers. Judicial rulings disputes go before icj/ecj & ppl question legality io holds when it exceeds boundaries of competence.
