Philippine materials in international law / / Raul C. Pangalangan.

• Superior document: Brill's Asian law series ; Volume 11
• VerfasserIn: Pangalangan, Raul C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Asian law series ; Volume 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (509 pages)

This is a collection of international law materials relating to the Philippines: excerpts of treaties and declarations; international judicial and arbitral decisions; and Philippine constitutional clauses, statutes and Supreme Court decisions. Today new theories abound, calling for comparative perspectives that look at international law through the lens of national and regional practice. This book engages that challenge at a concrete level, e.g., how Marcos' human rights abuses were litigated abroad but never in Philippine courts, and how victim claims for reparations are, ironically, blocked by the Philippine Government citing the Filipino people's competing claims over Marcos' ill-gotten wealth. It retells Philippine history using international law, and re-examines international law using the Philippine experience.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- 1 Constituting the Philippine State in International Law -- Overview -- From the August 1896 Uprising to the December 1897 Peace Agreement -- America Wages War on Spain and Brings Aguinaldo to Manila -- The U.S. Takes Manila and Spain Cedes the Philippine Archipelago -- Aguinaldo's Government Protests the U.S.-Spain Negotiations over the Philippines -- I Declaration of a State of War by Governor-General Ramón Blanco (Martial Law Proclamation) (1896) -- ii Act of Agreement Adopted for the Pacification of the Island of Luzon ( Pact of Biak-na-Bato) (1897) -- iii Declaration of Philippine Independence (1898) -- iv U.S. President William McKinley: Messages on the Philippine Campaign -- v Basis for Establishment of Peace ( Protocol of Peace) (1898) -- vi Treaty of Peace between Spain and the United States ( Treaty of Paris) (1898) -- vii Treaty between the Kingdom of Spain and United States of America for Cession of Outlying Islands of the Philippines ( Cession Agreement) (1900) -- viii Felipe Agoncillo's Official Protest against the Paris Peace Treaty (1898) -- ix Aguinaldo's Manifesto Protesting the United States' Claim of Sovereignty over the Philippines (1899) -- x Political Constitution of the Republic ( Malolos Constitution) (1899) -- xi Proclamation on U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's Pardon of the People of the Philippine Archipelago ( Amnesty Proclamation) (1902) -- xii The Philippine Autonomy Act ( Jones Law) (1916) -- xiii Philippine Independence Act ( Tydings-McDuffie Act) (1934) -- xiv U.S. President Harry S. Truman's Proclamation of Philippine Independence (1946) -- xv Philippine Statute Changing Date of Philippine Independence Day from July 4 (from the Date of Truman's Proclamation) to June 12 (from the Date of Aguinaldo's 1898 Declaration of Independence) -- 2 The Armed Conflict with the United States before the Courts and Courts-Martial -- Overview -- Courts-Martial for Breaches of the Laws of War -- Arbitral Proceedings over Damages Caused by the "Insurgents" -- U.S. Amnesty of the "Insurgents" -- i Courts-Martial by the United States (1901-02) -- ii International Arbitration Arising from the Armed Conflict -- iii Cases Decided by Philippine Courts -- 3 National Territory -- Overview -- Terrestrial Claims -- Maritime Territory -- i The National Territory vis-à-vis Other States -- ii The National Territory vis-à-vis Claims of Internal Autonomy -- 4 The Philippines and the International Court of Justice -- Overview -- The Philippine Submission to Compulsory Jurisdiction -- 1982 Manila Declaration -- Philippine Participation in the Work of the Court -- i Philippine Declaration Submitting to Compulsory Jurisdiction (1972) -- ii Manila Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes -- iii Sovereignty over Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan (Indonesia v. Malaysia) (Permission to Intervene by the Philippines) (2001) -- 5 Sources of International Law -- Overview -- Key Constitutional Clauses -- Executive Agreements.

Role of the Legislative Branch -- "Soft Law" -- Recommendations by Human Rights Treaty Bodies -- Termination and Withdrawal from a Treaty -- i icj Statute -- ii The Treaty Clause in Relation to the Incorporation Clause -- iii Non-Treaty Sources of International Obligation -- iv Unilateral Declarations: Province of North Cotabato v. Government of the Republic of the Philippines Peace Panel on Ancestral Domain (2008) -- v Recommendations by Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Felipe and Evelyn Pestaño, Communication No. 1619/2007 (Views of the Human Rights Committee, 2010) -- vi "Soft Law" -- vii Treaties -- 6 U.S. Military Bases -- Overview -- 1 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines -- i Philippine Commonwealth and Independence Act (1934) -- ii Treaty of General Relations between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America (1946) -- iii bayan v. Zamora (2000) -- iv Lim v. Executive Secretary (2002) -- v Nicolas v. Romulo (2009) -- vi Saguisag v. Ochoa, Jr. (2016) -- vii Opinions of the Secretary of Justice: Other Military Agreements Treated as Mere Executive Agreements -- 7 Human Rights Cases from the Marcos Dictatorship -- Overview -- Reparations Claims in U.S. Courts under the Alien Tort Claims Act -- Procedural Impediments to Enforcement in Philippine Courts -- Competing Claims over the Marcos Assets: The Government's Claim for Forfeiture Stolen Wealth versus The Human Rights Victims' Claim for Reparations -- Legislative Relief for the Marcos Human Rights Victims -- Historical Revisionism -- i Human Rights Victims' Claims in U.S. Courts under the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act and Their Enforcement in Philippine Courts -- ii Historical Revisionism through the Courts -- 8 Immunities -- Immunity of States -- Immunity of International Organizations -- i States -- ii International Organizations -- 9 Extradition -- The Philippines as the Requested State -- i The Philippines as the Requested State -- ii The Philippines as the Requesting State: Philippine Request for the Extradition of Rodolfo Pacificador (2002) -- 10 International Criminal Law -- Extra-Territorial Criminal Jurisdiction: Piracy in the High Seas -- Crimes Committed during World War ii -- Command Responsibility -- The International Criminal Court -- The Legal Treatment of Armed Groups: Overlap between the Domestic Crime of Rebellion and ihl Rules on Non-International Armed Conflicts -- i Extra-Territorial Criminal Jurisdiction: People v. Lol-lo and Saraw (1922) -- ii Crimes Committed During wwii -- iii Command Responsibility -- iv The International Criminal Court -- v The Application of International Law to Armed Rebel Groups in the Philippines -- Index..