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List of members of the Universal Postal Union
Official list of the Universal Postal Union's members: 192 member countries admitted under Articles 2 and 11 of the UPU Constitution, compiled by the International Bureau, with dependent territories attached to member states.
List of parties to the Geneva Conventions
List of parties to the Geneva Conventions: states bound by the four treaties signed at Geneva on 12 August 1949, in force 21 October 1950, depositary Switzerland, with 196 states parties (universal ratification) and 174, 168-169, and 72-79 parties to Additional Protocols I, II, and III.
List of parties to the Paris Agreement
Parties to the Paris Agreement (194 as of January 2026): states and the EU that ratified, accepted, approved, or acceded to the 2015 climate treaty in force 4 November 2016; Iran, Libya, Yemen, and the withdrawn United States stand outside.
List of parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
The 191 parties to the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty), joined by ratification, accession, or succession since 1968; only South Sudan, India, Israel, and Pakistan remain outside, and North Korea's 2003 withdrawal is legally disputed.
List of states with nuclear weapons
Nine states possess nuclear weapons: the NPT-recognized US, Russia, UK, France, and China, plus India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea, holding an estimated 12,187 warheads as of January 2026.
List of the United States treaties
Official listing of United States treaties: Treaties in Force (annual, January 1 cutoff), TIAS texts since 1945, UST 1950-1982, Senate records from 1975, depositary for 200+ multilateral treaties.
List of treaties
List of treaties: systematic compilations of international agreements, chiefly the UN Treaty Series (over 250,000 treaties and treaty actions since 1945 under Article 102), the League of Nations Treaty Series, and multilateral depositary lists.
List of treaties by number of parties
A list of multilateral treaties ranked by how many states are bound, topped by the 1985 Vienna Ozone Layer Convention and the 1987 Montreal Protocol at 198 parties each.
List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel
United Nations resolutions concerning Israel: General Assembly and Security Council texts from Resolution 181 (1947) through 242, 338, 1701, 2334, and the 2023-2024 Gaza resolutions, with counts, vetoes, and legal status.
List of vetoed United Nations Security Council resolutions
Vetoed UN Security Council resolutions: drafts defeated by a P5 negative vote under Article 27. About 320 vetoes since 1946, led by USSR/Russia (156) and the US (94), concentrated on the Middle East, Syria, and Ukraine.
Little Arkansas Treaty
Little Arkansas Treaty: three October 1865 peace treaties at the Little Arkansas River, Kansas, with Cheyenne, Arapaho, Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche, promising Sand Creek reparations and ceding southern plains lands; superseded by Medicine Lodge in 1867.
Locarno Treaties
Locarno Treaties: seven 1925 agreements from the Locarno Conference (Oct 5-16, 1925), signed in London Dec 1, 1925; Rhineland Pact fixed Germany's western border, arbitration treaties covered Poland and Czechoslovakia, and Germany joined the League in 1926.
London Agreement on the external debt of the former Soviet Union (1996)
The London Agreement on the external debt of the former Soviet Union was a 1996 UK–Russia exchange of notes rescheduling Soviet official debt, with Russia as successor debtor.
London Charter of the International Military Tribunal
The London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, known as the Nuremberg Charter, is the 1945 treaty annex defining the Nuremberg tribunal and its crimes.
London Conference of 1830
London Conference of 1830: five-power diplomatic conference (Britain, France, Austria, Prussia, Russia) opened 4 November 1830 to settle Belgium's secession from the Netherlands; produced the 1831 Treaty guaranteeing Belgian neutrality, finalized in the 1839 Treaty of London.
London Protocol (1830)
London Protocol of 3 February 1830: British-French-Russian conference protocol declaring Greece an independent state with the Acheloos-Spercheios border, a Sovereign Prince (Leopold declined; Otto of Bavaria followed), superseding the 1827 Treaty of London and 1829 autonomy protocol.
London Review of International Law
The London Review of International Law is an online-only, peer-reviewed academic journal on international law, published by Oxford University Press since 2013 and edited by Martin Clark, Stephen Humphreys, and Tor Krever.
London wartime agreements of Allied governments in exile
The London wartime agreements of Allied governments in exile were treaties and declarations signed in London during World War II, from the 1939 Anglo-Polish Agreement to the 1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty.
Louis B. Sohn
Louis B. Sohn (Louis Bruno Sohn, 1914–2006) was a Ukrainian-born American legal scholar, a founding father of international human rights and environmental law who helped draft the UN Charter.
Louis Renault (jurist)
Louis Renault (1843–1918) was a French jurist and professor of international law at the University of Paris who shared the 1907 Nobel Peace Prize for his arbitration work.
Luxembourg Crisis
The Luxembourg Crisis was a Franco-Prussian diplomatic confrontation of 1867 over France's attempted purchase of Luxembourg, resolved peacefully by the Treaty of London of 11 May 1867.
Maathorneferure
Maathorneferure, Hittite princess, daughter of Hattusili III and Puduhepa, married Ramesses II in his regnal year 34; her Hittite birth name is unknown and she is attested by the Marriage Stelae.
Madrid System
Madrid System: WIPO-administered international trademark registration under the 1891 Madrid Agreement and 1989 Protocol; 117 members, 133 countries, one application, basic mark required, 12/18-month examination.
Magnitsky Act
Magnitsky Act: US law (P.L. 112-208, 2012) sanctioning Russians tied to lawyer Sergei Magnitsky's death, expanded globally by the Global Magnitsky Act (P.L. 114-328, 2016) for human rights abuse and corruption.
Makau Mutua
Makau W. Mutua is a Kenyan-American legal scholar at the University at Buffalo School of Law, known for critiquing the human rights movement and founding TWAIL.
Malaysia–Thailand border
Malaysia–Thailand border: the Malay Peninsula land frontier set by the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 10 March 1909, which ceded Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah, and Perlis to Britain; runs along watersheds and the Sungei Golok, with about twenty crossings and major trade at Bukit Kayu Hitam and Padang Besar.
Mandate (international law)
A mandate in international law was a League of Nations agreement letting a state administer territory detached from a defeated power after the First World War.
Mandate (legal history)
A League of Nations mandate was a legal instrument under Article 22 of the Covenant placing former German and Ottoman territories under Mandatory administration after the First World War.
Mandate for Palestine
Mandate for Palestine: League of Nations Class A mandate granted to Britain at San Remo (25 April 1920), confirmed 24 July 1922, embedding the Balfour Declaration's Jewish national home clause; administered until termination in May 1948, distinct from the Transjordan memorandum of 16 September 1922.
Mandate system of the Treaty of Versailles
The mandate system of the Treaty of Versailles placed former German and Ottoman territories under Allied rule on behalf of the League of Nations from 1919.