DU LLM Entrance Exam 2015 Question Paper

DU LLM Entrance Exam 2015 Question Paper

1. Which of the following is a correct pair?
(a) Temple of Preah Vihear case – Res Judicata
(b) Island of Palmas case – Estoppel
(c) U.N. Administrative Tribunal case – Prescription
(d) Chorzow Factory case – Nemo judex in causa sua

2. Which one of the following zones was not specifically dealt with under four Geneva Conventions on Law of the Sea of 1958?
(a) Contiguous Zone
(b) High Sea
(c) Exclusive Economic Zone
(d) Territorial Sea

3. Which of the following instruments entitles an individual to file a petition before Human Rights Committee?
(a) Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(b) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
(c) First Optional Protocol to International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
(d) Second Optional Protocol to International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

4. What is the status of European Commission of Human Rights at present?
(a) It exists and investigates the facts on the petition of a national from any European country
(b) It exists, but investigates the facts only when any of the State Parties so requests
(c) It exists, but its working has been put on hold at present
(d) It was abolished and it does not exist

5. Which of the following international instruments provide for the abolition of death penalty?
(a) International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights
(b) First Optional Protocol to International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights
(c) Second Optional Protocol to International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights
(d) Optional Protocol to International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

6. The ILC Draft Code on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts of 2001 lays down……………..as a form of reparation for the injury caused by internationally wrongful act.
(a) Servitude
(b) Retaliation
(c) Satisfaction
(d) Referendum

7. Which of the following is not a principle under Article 2 of the United Nations Charter?
(a) Principle of sovereign equality
(b) Principle of Permanent sovereignty over natural resources
(c) Principle of resolving international disputes by peaceful means
(d) Principle of refraining from the threat or use of force.

8. The landlocked States may have access to surplus of the allowable catch in the………. of the Coastal State.
(a) Contiguous Zone
(b) Territorial Sea
(c) Exclusive Economic Zone
(d) Both Contiguous Zone and Exclusive Economic Zone

9. “Disputes arising out of contract shall be referred to municipal courts of state which grants concession”. This is known as:
(a) Absolute liability theory
(b) Calvo Clause
(c) Blackstonian doctrine
(d) Rule of exhaustion of local remedies

10. According to U.N. Convention on Law of the Sea 1982, the Contiguous Zone is established to exercise the control necessary to prevent and punish infringement of coastal state’s laws relating to:
(a) Customs, fiscal, immigration, and sanitation
(b) Security, customs, fiscal, immigration, and sanitation
(c) Environment, Security, customs, fiscal, and sanitation
(d) Research, Security, customs, fiscal, and sanitation

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