This timely and original research review provides a comprehensive review of the role and activities of the International Court of Justice (the 'World Court') and its role in the important issues of international law. Covering the courts activities, procedure and contribution to the progressive development of international law as well as legal disputes and advisory opinions, this original piece proves an important and broad resource for scholars and students alike.
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Contents: Volume I Acknowledgements viii Introduction William A. Schabas x PART I HISTORY 1. Åke Hammarskjöld (1930), ‘The Permanent Court of International Justice and its Place in International Relations’, International Affairs, 9 (4), July, 467–97 2 2. Jan Hostie (1944), ‘The Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice’, American Journal of International Law, 38 (3), October, 407–33 33 3. Manley O. Hudson (1957), ‘The Succession of the International Court of Justice to the Permanent Court of International Justice’, American Journal of International Law, 51 (3), July, 569–73 60 PART II THE ROLE OF THE COURT 4. Robert Y. Jennings (1998), ‘The Role of the International Court of Justice’, British Yearbook of International Law, 68, 1–63 66 5. Jose Maria Ruda (1991), ‘Some of the Contributions of the International Court of Justice to the Development of International Law’, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, 24, 35–68 129 6. Janina Satzer (2007), ‘Explaining the Decreased Use of International Courts – The Case of the ICJ’, Review of Law and Economics, 3 (1), 11–36 163 7. Manfred Lachs (1983), ‘Some Reflections on the Contribution of the International Court of Justice to the Development of International Law’, Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, 10, 239–78 189 8. Niels Petersen (2011), ‘Lawmaking by the International Court of Justice – Factors of Success’, German Law Journal, 12 (5), 1295–316 229 PART III THE COURT IN A POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT 9. Andrew Coleman (2003), ‘The International Court of Justice and Highly Political Matters’, Melbourne Journal of International Law, 4 (1), 29–75 252 10. Dapo Akande (1997), ‘The International Court of Justice and the Security Council: Is there Room for Judicial Control of Decisions of the Political Organs of the United Nations?’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 46 (2), April, 309–43 299 11. Eric A. Posner and Miguel F. P. de Figueiredo (2005), ‘Is the International Court of Justice Biased?’, Journal of Legal Studies, 34 (2), June, 599–630 334 12. Vera Gowlland-Debbas (1994), ‘The Relationship between the International Court of Justice and the Security Council in the Light of the Lockerbie Case’, American Journal of International Law, 88 (4), October, 643–77 366 PART IV JUDGES OF THE COURT 13. Chittharanjan F. Amerasinghe (2001), ‘Judges of the International Court of Justice – Election and Qualifications’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 14 (2), June, 335–48 402 14. Cosette Creamer and Zuzanna Godzimirska (2017), ‘The Job Market for Justice: Screening and Selecting Candidates for the International Court of Justice’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 30 (4), December, 947–66 416 15. Edward Gordon (1987), ‘Observations on the Independence and Impartiality of the Members of the International Court of Justice’, Connecticut Journal of International Law, 2, 397–426 436 PART V JURISDICTION, PROCEDURE AND COMPLIANCE 16. Edvard Hambro (1948), ‘Some Observations on the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice’, British Yearbook of International Law, 25, 133–57 467 17. Jonathan I. Charney (1987), ‘Compromissory Clauses and the Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice’, American Journal of International Law, 81 (4), October, 855–87 492 18. Shabtai Rosenne (2009), ‘Capacity to Litigate in the International Court of Justice: Reflections on Yugoslavia in the Court’, British Yearbook of International Law, 80 (1), 217–43 525 19. Simon Olleson (2005), ‘“Killing Three Birds with One Stone”? The Preliminary Objections Judgments of the International Court of Justice in the Legality of Use of Force Cases’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 18 (2), June, 237–55 552 20. Aloysius P. Llamzon (2007), ‘Jurisdiction and Compliance in Recent Decisions of the International Court of Justice’, European Journal of International Law, 18 (5), November, 815–52 571 21. Colter Paulson (2004), ‘Compliance with Final Judgments of the International Court of Justice since 1987’, American Journal of International Law, 98 (3), July, 434–61 609 22. Stanimir A. Alexandrov (1995), ‘Non-Appearance before the International Court of Justice’, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 33 (1), 41–72 637 23. Stefan Talmon (2015), ‘Determining Customary International Law: The ICJ’s Methodology between Induction, Deduction and Assertion’, European Journal of International Law, 26 (2), May, 417–43 669 Volume II Contents Acknowledgements viii Introduction An introduction for both volumes by the editor appears in Volume I PART I ADVISORY OPINIONS OF THE COURT 1. Sir Kenneth Keith (1996), ‘The Advisory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice: Some Comparative Reflections’, Australian Year Book of International Law, 17, 39–58 2 2. Karin Oellers-Frahm (2011), ‘Lawmaking Through Advisory Opinions?’, German Law Journal, 12 (5), March, 1033–55 22 3. Dapo Akande (1998), ‘The Competence of International Organizations and the Advisory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice’, European Journal of International Law, 9 (3), 437–67 45 4. Stephen M. Schwebel (1984), ‘Widening the Advisory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice without Amending its Statute’, Catholic University Law Review, 33 (2), 355–61 76 5. David Sloss (2002), ‘Using International Court of Justice Advisory Opinions to Adjudicate Secessionist Claims’, Santa Clara Law Review, 42 (2), 357–89 83 PART II SPECIALIZED BODIES OF LAW 6. Gentian Zyberi (2007), ‘The Development and Interpretation of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Rules and Principles through the Case-Law of the International Court of Justice’, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 25 (1), March, 117–39 117 7. Bruno Simma (2012), ‘Mainstreaming Human Rights: The Contribution of the International Court of Justice’, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 3 (1), March, 7–29 140 8. Vincent Chetail (2003), ‘The Contribution of the International Court of Justice to International Humanitarian Law’, International Review of the Red Cross, 85 (850), June, 235–69 163 9. Jorge E. Viñuales (2008), ‘The Contribution of the International Court of Justice to the Development of International Environmental Law: A Contemporary Assessment’, Fordham International Law Journal, 32 (1), 232–58 198 PART III FRAGMENTATION 10. Rosalyn Higgins (2003), ‘The ICJ, the ECJ, and the Integrity of International Law’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 52 (1), January, 1–20 226 11. Pierre-Marie Dupuy (1999), ‘The Danger of Fragmentation or Unification of the International Legal System and the International Court of Justice’, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, 31 (4), 791–807 246 12. Andrew Lang (2013), ‘The Role of the International Court of Justice in a Context of Fragmentation’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 62 (4), October, 777–812 263 PART IV SOME LEADING CASES 13. Edward Gordon (1971), ‘Old Orthodoxies Amid New Experiences: The South West Africa (Namibia) Litigation and the Uncertain Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice’, Denver Journal of International Law and Policy, 1, 65–92 300 14. Paul W. Kahn (1987), ‘From Nuremberg to The Hague: The United States Position in Nicaragua v. United States and the Development of International Law’, Yale Journal of International Law, 12 (1), Winter, 1–62 328 15. Lori Fisler Damrosch (2012), ‘The Impact of the Nicaragua Case on the Court and Its Role: Harmful, Helpful, or In Between?’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 25 (1), March, 135–47 390 16. Wladyslaw Czapliński (1989), ‘Sources of International Law in the Nicaragua Case’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 38 (1), January, 151–66 403 17. Malcolm D. Evans and Christine Chinkin (1996), ‘The East Timor Case (Portugal v. Australia)’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 45 (3), July, 712–25 419 18. Gerry J. Simpson (1994), ‘Judging the East Timor Dispute: Self- Determination at the International Court of Justice’, Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 17 (2), 323–47 433 19. Eric David (1997), ‘The Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Use of Nuclear Weapons’, International Review of the Red Cross, 79 (823), 21–34 458 20. Richard A. Falk (1997), ‘Nuclear Weapons, International Law and the World Court: A Historic Encounter’, American Journal of International Law, 91 (1), January, 64–75 472 21. Susan L. Karamanian (2006), ‘Briefly Resuscitating the Great Writ: The International Court of Justice and the U.S. Death Penalty’, Albany Law Review, 69 (3), 745–70 484 22. Chittharanjan F. Amerasinghe (2008), ‘The Bosnia Genocide Case’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 21 (2), June, 411–28 510 23. Iain Scobbie (2005), ‘Unchart(er)ed Waters?: Consequences of the Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the Responsibility of the UN for Palestine’, European Journal of International Law, 16 (5), November, 941–61 528 24. Christine Gray (2004), ‘The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’, Cambridge Law Journal, 63 (3), November, 527–32 549 25. Alexander Orakhelashvili (2006), ‘Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Opinion and Reaction’, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 11 (1), Spring, 119–39 555 26. Simon Chesterman (2015), ‘The International Court of Justice in Asia: Interpreting the Temple of Preah Vihear Case’, Asian Journal of International Law, 5 (1), January, 1–8 576 27. Phoebe Okowa (2011), ‘The International Court of Justice and the Georgia/Russia Dispute’, Human Rights Law Review, 11 (4), December, 739–57 584 28. Sandy Ghandhi (2011), ‘Human Rights and the International Court of Justice: The Ahmadou Sadio Diallo Case’, Human Rights Law Review, 11 (3), December, 527–55 603 29. Vincent-Joël Proulx (2017), ‘The World Court’s Jurisdictional Formalism and its Lost Market Share: The Marshall Islands Decisions and the Quest for a Suitable Dispute Settlement Forum for Multilateral Disputes’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 30 (4), September, 925–46 632
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‘A very useful compilation of major, authoritative and well selected academic writings on the International Court of Justice that offers an introduction to the academic literature as well as to the jurisprudence.’
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9781789900170
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2020-08-07
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
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Biographical note

Edited by William A. Schabas, Professor of International Law, Middlesex University, London, UK and Professor of International Criminal Law and Human Rights, Leiden University, the Netherlands