The Concept of International Obligations Erga Omnes

Dr Maurizio Ragazzi has degrees from the Universities of Angelicum and Ferrara in Italy; Columbia, New York and Oxford. He practised for five years with an international law firm during which time he was an international arbitrator. He is now counsel in the Legal Department of the World Bank in Washington, DC.

• The Appearance of the Concept of Obligations Erga Omnes on the Agenda: The Dictum of the International Court in the Barcelona Traction Case ; Selected Prefigurations of the Concept of Obligations Erga Omnes: (a)State Servitude, Permanent Dedication, International Status, and Objective Regime ; Selected Prefigurations of the Concept of Obligations Erga Omnes: (b)Jus Cogens ; The Examples of Obligations Erga Omnes Given by the International Court in its Dictum: (a)The Outlawing of Acts of Aggression ; The Examples of Obligations Erga Omnes Given by the International Court in its Dictum: (b)The Outlawing of Genocide ; The Examples of Obligations Erga Omnes Given by the International Court in its Dictum: (c)Protection from Slavery ; The Examples of Obligations Erga Omnes Given by the International Court in its Dictum: (d) Protection from Racial Discrimination ; Selected Candidates of Obligations Erga Omnes Proposed in the International Literature ; Other Selected Candidates in Light of the Advisory Opinion on Namibia and the Nuclear Tests Cases ; Particular Aspects of the Relationship Between the Concept of Obligations Erga Omnes and the concepts of Jus Cogens and Actio Popularis ; Bibliography

an excellent pioneering study