Executive power over foreign affairs and the validity of compensation waiver clauses under international law and Philippine law: A critique of Vinuya, et al. V. Romulo

• Main Author: Martinez, Emil Angelo C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2015
• Subjects: Philippines—Foreign relations—Treaties; War reparations—Philippines; World War, 1939-1945—Reparations; Conflict of laws; International Humanitarian Law; International Law
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/6372; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_masteral/article/13449/viewcontent/Martinez_Emil_Angelo_C.___11186453___Thesis___College_of_Law3.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

In Vinuya, et al. v. Romulo, the Supreme Court held that the compensation claims of the victims against Japan for the atrocities committed during the Second World War, particularly the victims of sexual violence perpetrated by the Japanese Imperial Army in the Philippines, are barred because the Phi...