The world's central legal institution, the United Nations, was the brainchild of Franklin Roosevelt, who began planning for it soon after the United States entered the war.
However, they do not have the power to overhaul unaided a legal institution which, like much of Britain's constitutional machinery, has evolved over generations and now seems dangerously ramshackle.
For another, the Law of the Sea Tribunal - the sort of multilateral legal institution whose tendency for politicization and anti-American actions has prompted the Bush Administration to reject the International Criminal Court - has already established a relevant precedent.
The extent of the assembly's powers should be defined "to give us greater legal certainty" so the institution can legislate "effectively and with confidence".
In both instances, the legal advisor to the SCF financial institution or business must be very careful about how these charitable contributions are made and who the beneficiaries of these funds are.
Marriage, after all, is a religious institution as well as a legal union regulated by the government.
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Also of no interest to Israel's international legal superstar is the fact that the institution set to do the judging is politically stacked against Israel, and that the Islamic bloc-dominated "international community" redefined international law for the purposes of the ICC to make all Israeli communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines criminal.
Yes many of its members were growing more slowly than they used to, but it represented an enormous, stable, and growing market, and was an institution that had been able to promote economic, legal, and political reform in prospective members far more effectively than even the most optimistic had imagined.
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"Depending on the institution or the organization, they have pre-existing legal parameters, " Cuomo said.
What the institution does not have is any desire to do this, or formal legal responsibility (I have explored some of the difficult issues for the ECB here).
At the heart of Bakan's argument is the idea that, since its legal personification during the mid-1800s, the corporation has risen relentlessly to become the dominant institution in western society -- the equivalent of the church, the monarchy or the Communist Party during other historical eras.
The Metropolitan offered in November 2012 to host the relic for three years, but the country's Commission for the Preservation of National Monuments the only institution that could approve such a trip conditioned the trip to New York with Bosnia solving the legal status of the museum.
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