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16 Yale J. Int'l L. 245 (1991)
Iran Air Flight 655 and Beyond: Free Passage, Mistaken Self-Defense, and State Responsibility

handle is hein.journals/yjil16 and id is 251 raw text is: The Yale Journal of International Law Volume 16, Number 2, Summer 1991 Articles Iran Air Flight 655 and Beyond: Free Passage, Mistaken Self-Defense, and State Responsibility David K. Linnant I. INTRODUCTION ................................................ 246 II. IRAN AIR FLIGHT 655: THE CASE .................................... 248 A. Prologue: The Facts .......................................... 248 B. The Legal Arguments ......................................... 258 1. Iranian Position Before the International Court of Justice ................ 259 2. American Position Before the International Court of Justice ............... 260 C. American Challenge to the Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice ....... 263 III. FREEDOM OF THE SEAS AND COMBATANT RIGHTS .......................... 268 A. Traditional Notions of Freedom of the High Seas and the Vincennes' Character as a Neutral Warship .................................... 268 B. Military Zones of Exclusion and Abrogation of Freedom of the High Seas in the Twentieth Century ................................................. 272 IV. INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION LAW: OVERFLIGHT AND AIR SAETY ............. 302 V. PRIMARY OBLIGATIONS RESTRAINING THE USE OF ARMED FORCE ................. 308 A. Modem Restraints on War: U.N. Charter Issues and the Flight 655 Incident ....... 309 B. The Law of Armed Conflict and Primary Obligation ...................... 310 t Assistant Professor Law, University of South Carolina School of Law. J.D., University of Chicago, 1979; B.A., Emory University, 1979; I am grateful to Herbert A. Johnson for helpful comments on portions of a previous draft of this article, as well as to Laura F. Long and Nancy F. Shealy at the University of South Carolina Law School, and to my editors at the Yale Journal of International Law - Nora V. Demleitner and E. Gates Garrity - for their patient and cheerful help at various stages of the publication process. © Copyright 1991, David K. Linnan.

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