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State Responsibility and the Challenge of the Realist Paradigm: the Demand of Baltic Victims of Soviet Mass Repressions for Compensation from Russia

State Responsibility and the Challenge of the Realist Paradigm: the Demand of Baltic Victims of... Contents 1. Introduction 2. The Issue of State Responsibility for Injuries Caused During Illegal Soviet Annexation 2.1. The Conditions of State Responsibility in the Case of the Baltic States: Illegality and Attributability 2.2. The Reparations Issue after the Reestablishment of the Baltic Independence 3. The Realist Critiques of International Law and State Responsibility 4. Conclusions Every internationally wrongful act of a State entails the international responsibility of that State.' I '[w]e both alike know that in the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters where there is equal power to enforce it, and that the powerful exact what they can, and that the weak grant what they must.'2 2 1. Introduction In international affairs, claims for justice and compensation are not seldom occurrences. In different contexts, such claims have been raised by victims of apartheid, crimes against humanity, slave labour, and other kinds of grave human rights violations. In cases crossing State borders, lawyers representing victims of human rights violations have based their clients' claims both on principles of statutory and customary international law, and benefited from domestic legislation such as the US Alien Tort Claims Act or Torture Victim Protection Act.3 3 One of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Baltic Yearbook of International Law Online Brill

State Responsibility and the Challenge of the Realist Paradigm: the Demand of Baltic Victims of Soviet Mass Repressions for Compensation from Russia

Baltic Yearbook of International Law Online , Volume 3 (1): 20 – Jan 1, 2003
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Contents 1. Introduction 2. The Issue of State Responsibility for Injuries Caused During Illegal Soviet Annexation 2.1. The Conditions of State Responsibility in the Case of the Baltic States: Illegality and Attributability 2.2. The Reparations Issue after the Reestablishment of the Baltic Independence 3. The Realist Critiques of International Law and State Responsibility 4. Conclusions Every internationally wrongful act of a State entails the international responsibility of that State.' I '[w]e both alike know that in the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters where there is equal power to enforce it, and that the powerful exact what they can, and that the weak grant what they must.'2 2 1. Introduction In international affairs, claims for justice and compensation are not seldom occurrences. In different contexts, such claims have been raised by victims of apartheid, crimes against humanity, slave labour, and other kinds of grave human rights violations. In cases crossing State borders, lawyers representing victims of human rights violations have based their clients' claims both on principles of statutory and customary international law, and benefited from domestic legislation such as the US Alien Tort Claims Act or Torture Victim Protection Act.3 3 One of the

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