Fifty Years of the International Court of Justice: Essays in by Vaughan Lowe, Malgosia Fitzmaurice

By Vaughan Lowe, Malgosia Fitzmaurice

This multi-author textual content deals a severe evaluate of the paintings of the foreign court docket of Justice, and its family with the political organs of the United international locations, in past times fifty years. Its function is to attract jointly the reflections of the main eminent foreign judges, practitioners and teachers within the box of public foreign legislations, at the manner that the courtroom has dealt with the concerns positioned earlier than it. No different textual content has this sort of exclusive workforce of expert members, or the excellent assurance of this quantity.

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Argentina/United Kingdom v. Chile), Order, 1956, 215, 395, 412n. , 576, 577n. [UN Headquarters Agreement] Application for Review of Judgment No. 158 of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal, Advisory Opinion, 1973, 193, 201, 205-7, 578 Application for Review of Judgment No. 273 of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal, Advisory Opinion, 1982, 193, 201, 207, 401-4, 577ff. [Mortished] Application for Review of Judgment No. 333 of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal, Advisory Opinion, 1987,193,201, 207-9, 578 Application for Revision and Interpretation of the Judgment of 24 February 1982 in the Case Concerning the Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (Tunisia v.

Frontier Dispute, Constitution of Chamber, Order, 1985, 9 Frontier Dispute (request for provisional measures, 1986), 544, 547 Frontier Dispute, Provisional Measures, Order, 1986, 525 Frontier Dispute, Nomination of Experts, Order, 1987, 533f Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia) (1993-) *, 295, 308, 309, 310-13, 395 German Settlers in Poland, Advisory Opinion, 1923, 328 Greco-Bulgarian 'Communities', Advisory Opinion, 1930, 329 Haya de la Torre, 1951, 487, 495f. , 457f. , 248n. Interpretation of Judgment No.

For it begets another question, namely that of the exact place and role of the Court in this order and in relation to the other adjudicative mechanisms that may exist therein. This last question arises in thefirstplace in relation to arbitration, which was the only form of adjudicative activity existing in general international law before the establishment of the Court, and which continues to coexist with it. But unlike the situation in municipal law, where arbitration is subject to judicial control and is thus integrated into the judicial system, international arbitration remained outside the Court's orbit.

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