Series 3: Pacific Islands Judiciary Development Introduction

This series contains information on various Pacific Islands and Islanders that Jon Van Dyke worked with to advocate for their territorial rights, sovereignties and judicial development.  The Islands include Christmas Island (Kiribati), Federated States of Micronesia, Johnston/Kalama Atoll, Kermadecs and New Zealand, Kosrae, Minerva, Tonga, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). The islanders include groups such as the Maori and Palauans, particularly Jon Van Dyke's legal colleague named Victor Uherbelau. The series also contains government documents such as the Constitutional Law of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) Seminar Materials, Fisheries Regulations, FSM - Compact of Free Association, FSM Constitution,  FSM Fishing Laws, Palau Constitutional Development and the Second Palau Constitutional Convention.

 

Documents arising from specific legal cases, issues and projects are included, such as Court Filed Documents relating to Chuuk, International Ocean Law, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Kosrae Cases, Kosrae-Term Limits - Gerson Jackson, Maori (indigenous Ocean Law),  Murton Declaration, New Caledonia - Self Determination, Nuclear French Polynesia, Nuclear Waste in the South Pacific, Palau-Chin Case, Permit Applications - Feb. 1995, South Pacific Nuclear Treaty, The Angaur Case, USS San Francisco 1-8-05 (FSM).

 

There are teaching and research regarding Equal Rights, FSM Judicial Seminars; the FSM Constitution, Pacific Island Legal Systems Course Materials and Pacific Maps. There are also papers from Jon’s participation in the Joy Island Conference for Micronesian and the South Pacific Judicial Conference. Other materials cover the Bering Sea, the Caspian Sea, maps of uninhabited Islands, the Uninhabited Islands/Sea Grant Quarterly, Im Thurn Papers and Im Thurn Land Despatch.

 

Series 3 Subseries Box Listing

1C2

  • Brian S. Nicholas
  • Equal Rights
  • Nuclear French Polynesia
  • Nuclear Waste in the South Pacific
  • South Pacific Nuclear Treaty

4C1

  • Court Filed Documents - Chuuk vs. Sec
  • Kosrae
  • Kosrae Cases
  • Kosrae-Term Limits - Gerson Jackson
  • Palau-Chin Case

4C1(2)

  • Court Filed Documents - Chuuk vs. Sec
  • FSM Fishing Laws

4C2

  • 1985 Pohnpei Seminar for FSM Judges
  • 1986 Chuuck Seminar for Judges
  • Feb. 1986 HNL Seminar for FSM Judges
  • FSM - Compact of Free Association
  • FSM Constitution
  • FSM Judicial Seminar Teaching Materials - Summer 1985 (Pohnpei)
  • FSM-Palau Judicial Training Seminar Materials, Truk June-July 1986
  • Overheads - FSM Constitution
  • USS San Francisco 1-8-05

4D1

  • Canadian - American Treaty/ Machias Seal Island
  • Christmas Island - Kiribati
  • Fisheries Regulations
  • Im Thurn and Land Despatch
  • Im Thurn and Land - Further Papers
  • Johnston
  • Kermadecs and New Zealand
  • Minerva
  • Murton Declaration
  • New Caledonia - Self Determination
  • South Pacific Judicial Conference
  • Tonga
  • Uninhabited Islands - Maps
  • Uninhabited Islands/Sea Grant Quarterly

6B3

  • International Ocean Law
  • Pacific Maps
  • The Bering Sea
  • The Caspian Sea

7B1

  • American Samoa
  • CNMI
  • CNMI Core Documents
  • Saipan
  • Saipan October 2008
  • U.S. Flag Territories and Commonwealths

7B2

  • Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)
  • CNMI - Liz Rechebei
  • CNMI - Malua Peter - Sept. 1998
  • CNMI Projects 1999-2002
  • CNMI Separation of Powers
  • CNMI - 2005

7B2(2)

  • CNMI Projects 1999-2002
  • Guam
  • Guam - Chamorro Self-Determination
  • Guam Commonwealth Act
  • Guam 2003
  • Wake Island

BB1D1

  • Constitutional Law of the Federated States of Micronesia Seminar Materials
  • Federated States of Micronesia
  • Joy Island Conference for Micronesian Judges - Conference Ideas
  • Joy Island Conference for Micronesian Judges - FSM Judicial Administration
  • Joy Island Conference for Micronesian Judges - FSM Supreme Court
  • Joy Island Conference for Micronesian Judges - Jurisprudence
  • Joy Island Conference for Micronesian Judges - Sentencing
  • Joy Island Conference for Micronesian Judges - The Bar
  • Pacific Island Legal Systems Course Materials
  • Victor Uherbelau

BB1F1

  • Angaur
  • Business card
  • Heather Stanton- Thesis Paper
  • Palau Constitution
  • Post ConCon Political Education Committee (PCPEC)
  • Second Palau Constitutional Convention 

BB1J1

  • International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
  • Johnston/Kalama Atoll
  • Johnston/Kalama Island
  • Palau Constitutional Development
  • Professor Jon Van Dyke GP SubCom 5 (IRTJ)
  • Second Palau Constitutional Convention
  • The Anguar Case

E7.1-E7.2

  • Enewetak - Changed Circumstances Petition
  • Enewetak - Examples of payments based on Intl Wrongs
  • Marshalls - C Brown - Nuclear Claims Tribunal
  • Mochizuki v. US
  • Marshall Islands - Nuclear Matters
  • Marshall Island Claims
  • Enewetak NCT Opinion - May 2000
  • Enewetak - Underlying Claim Memo June 2002
  • Enewetak - Underlying Claim Memo June 2003
  • Enewetak - Outdated Miscellaneous
  • Marshalls - Constitution Compact of Free Association
  • Enewetak
  • Enewetak - Davor Pevec

E8

  • Enewetak - Damages / Restoration
  • Enewetak, Enewetak 1996
  • OGSG Mtg 1/9-11/1995
  • Statute of Limitations
  • UARC
  • United States Claims Court

S6.1-S6.3 

  • Human Rights in Asia & the Pacific - Speech
  • Jan 23 - Initiations
  • Jan 23 - Initiative
  • Judiciary Development
  • Judiciary Development - Campaign Signs
  • Pacific Charter of Human Rights

S9.1-S9.2

  • Constitutional Reform in Tonga
  • East-West Center Seminar on New Approaches to Governance and Economic Self-Reliance in Pacific Island Societies
  • Palau Alien Registration Case 2011
  • Peter Donigi
  • Vanuatu Materials
  • Vanuatu-Pacific Island Concerns

 S14.3

  • Marshall Islands
  • Fire Mountain 2002
  • Island Press

Jon Van Dyke Collection Finding Aid

Series 3: Pacific Islands Judiciary Development Introduction