Articles

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Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
ASIL Panel Held on International Law and Refugee Asylum The American Society of International Law ("ASIL") took a look at the emerging law of refugee asylum at its annual meeting held in Washington, D.C. on April 9-12, 1986.  The panel of refugee law... Constantine G. Papavizas 2 4 1986-04-01 United States Asylum
Swiss Court Edges Toward Punishing Money Laundering A Swiss appeals court increased the prison terms for several alleged money launderers, members of the Swiss branch of the international Pizza Connection, on appeals by both the defense and... Clemens J.M. Kochinke 2 4 1986-04-01 Switzerland Money Laundering
Attorneys Win Victories in Forfeiture Cases Counsel have won important victories in two cases involving forfeiture of fees.  In the case of United States v. Christopher Reckmeyer, Judge James C. Cacheris held that the defendant had a right to... Bruce Zagaris 2 4 1986-04-01 United States Drugs & Trafficking
Torture Victim Protection Act of 1986 In an attempt to clarify the law surrounding the application of the Alien Tort Claims, 28 U.S.C. 1350, to international human rights violators, Congressmen Gus Yatron and Jim Leach in the House, and... Jay Rosenthal 2 4 1986-04-01 United States Torture
OAS Sponsoring Inter-American Conference on Narcotic Drugs On April 22-29, 1986, the Organization of American States held a specialized conference on drug traffic in Rio de Janeiro. Bruce Zagaris 2 4 1986-04-01 Latin America and South America Drug Enforcement
Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture Concluded On December 9, 1985, a Resolution to adopt the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture was adopted at the third plenary session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American... Bruce Zagaris 2 4 1986-04-01 Latin America and South America Torture
Presidential Commission on Organized Crime Reports on Drug Trafficking On March 13, 1986, the President's Commission on Organized Crime, whose mandate has now expired and is now extinct, promulgated a report, entitled "America's Habit: Drug Abuse, Drug Trafficking and... Bruce Zagaris 2 4 1986-04-01 United States Drugs & Trafficking
Book Reviews: Rolf A. Schütze, Enforcement of Rights Abroad The author is a practitioner, writer and teacher who wrote Enforcement of Rights Abroad to give guidance to practitioners desiring authoritative information on how to pursue legal matters in an... Clemens J.M. Kochinke 2 4 1986-04-01 International Law
House Hearings Charts Progress in U.S.-Bahamian Drug Cooperation On April 16, 1986, the Subcommittee on Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture of the Committee on Government Operations, U.S. House of Representatives held hearings on "Initiatives in Drug... Bruce Zagaris 2 4 1986-04-01 Bahamas Drug Enforcement
AIDP and OAS Conclude Cooperation Agreement On April 11, 1986, the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP) concluded a cooperation agreement. Bruce Zagaris 2 4 1986-04-01 Latin America and South America International Criminal and Comparative Law
IRS to Aggressively Go After Illegal Activity Cash On March 21, 1986, the Internal Revenue Service issued temporary regulations that persons caught in the possession of large amounts of "illegal activity cash" in excess of $10,000 will be slapped... Bruce Zagaris 2 4 1986-04-01 United States Financial Crimes
Maritime Wing of the Belize Defense Force In recent months a reassessment has been made of the Maritime Wing of the Belize Defense Force.  Having been formed in 1983, the force received two twenty (20) metre Patrol Craft in July, 1984.  The... Bruce Zagaris 2 3 1986-03-01 Brazil Maritime
Video Commercialization vs. Copyright in Peru: A Primer With the proliferation of home use video cassette recorders (VCR), an underground industry has emerged to provide the public with videocassettes of first run movies copied without permission from the... Juan Pedro van Hasselt 2 3 1986-03-01 Peru Copyright
Senior Officials of Commonwealth Countries Meet to Consider Draft Schemes on Mutual Assistance in the Administration of Justice A meeting of senior officials of Law Ministries from 31 Commonwealth countries was held at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, from 21 January to 4 February 1986 to consider three draft schemes for... Gael M. Kerrigan 2 3 1986-03-01 British Commonwealth Administration of Justice
Justice Starts Program on Crim, Investigative Training in Americas In January, 1986, the Department of Justice initiated an International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) to improve through training criminal investigative capabilities in... Bruce Zagaris 2 3 1986-03-01 Latin America and South America Criminal Procedure/Proceedings
U.S. Jamaica Talks Broaden to Mutual Assistance During February 26-28, 1986, the U.S. and Jamaican Governments held discussions concerning an Agreement on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters.  The negotiations contemplate a broad-based Agreement... Bruce Zagaris 2 3 1986-03-01 Jamaica Mutual Legal Assistance
Expatriation in Foreign Prisons Upheld by State Department The Department of State Board of Appellate Review has recently upheld the renunciation of U.S. citizenship by a person while the person was a prisoner in Canada. Bruce Zagaris 2 3 1986-03-01 Canada Prisoner Rights
U.K. Parliament Moves to Criminalize Money Laundering and Enable Forfeiture of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking A bill to strip drug traffickers of their illegal gains and criminalize the laundering of drug profits is making its way through the UK Parliament. Gael M. Kerrigan 2 3 1986-03-01 United Kingdom Drug Enforcement
European Parliament's Assertive Stance on Subsidies Fraud The European Parliament demonstrated an unknown assertiveness when its Committee on Budgetary Control decided on February 26, 1986 not to accept the EC Commission's investigative report on subsidies... Bruce Zagaris 2 3 1986-03-01 Europe Fraud
Book Reviews: Schweizerisches Strafgesetzbuch (Swiss Criminal Code) by Hauser/Rehberg These three pocket sized volumes contain the major Swiss pieces of legislation- statutes and regulations- in a handy annotated format.  They can satisfy an occasional curiosity about and also a... Clemens J.M. Kochinke 2 3 1986-03-01 Switzerland International Law

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