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July 15, 2015
Forty-eighth Session (1996)
The International Law Commission held its forty-eighth session at Geneva, Switzerland, from 6 May to 26 July 1996 in accordance with General Assembly resolution 50/45 of 11 December 1995.
Topics considered in 1996
State responsibility (Summary | Analytical Guide)
Draft code of crimes against the peace and security of mankind (Summary | Analytical Guide)
The Commission adopted the final text of the draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind, with commentaries.
International liability for injurious consequences arising out of acts not prohibited by international law (Summary | Analytical Guide)
Rreservations to treaties (Summary | Analytical Guide)
State succession and its impact on the nationality of natural and legal persons (Summary | Analytical Guide)
Other business
- International Law Seminar
- Thirteenth Gilberto Amado Memorial Lecture was delivered on 18 June 1996 by Mr. Celso Lafer, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations Office at Geneva, was on the subject: "The dispute settlement system in the World Trade Organization".