The US Congress adopted legislation, signed by President Barack Obama, making such judgments unenforceable in American courts.

But, while the debt was highly rated, how could anyone objectively assess unsecured and virtually unenforceable obligations?

Nineteen years of experience with the Maastricht Treaty, which created both the EU and the euro, has shown convincingly that such limits are unenforceable.

On the economic front, they agreed on only a bare bones Economic and Monetary Union built around monetary rectitude and an unenforceable promise of fiscal discipline.

It was further observed that, while in principle under this approach arbitration clauses contained in bills of lading would be unenforceable, specific exemptions should be foreseen for special liner trades.

I d like to lay out a simple path to addressing (not resolving) these security problems, one that does not require agreement among all governments (or people) on what really constitutes a crime, much less a global police force or unenforceable global treaties.

(j) In the area of conflict of laws, courts in both the Netherlands and Luxembourg held the Hague Conventions concerning Conflicts of Laws in Matters of Marriage, Divorce and Guardianship to be suspended but not abrogated the Dutch Supreme Court later limited the suspension to provisions which had become unenforceable