International Court of Justice

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

• Contents:Volume IAcknowledgements viiiIntroduction William A. Schabas xPART I HISTORY1. Åke Hammarskjöld (1930), ‘The Permanent Court of InternationalJustice and its Place in International Relations’, InternationalAffairs, 9 (4), July, 467–97 22. Jan Hostie (1944), ‘The Statute of the Permanent Court ofInternational Justice’, American Journal of International Law, 38(3), October, 407–33 333. Manley O. Hudson (1957), ‘The Succession of the InternationalCourt of Justice to the Permanent Court of International Justice’,American Journal of International Law, 51 (3), July, 569–73 60PART II THE ROLE OF THE COURT4. Robert Y. Jennings (1998), ‘The Role of the International Court ofJustice’, British Yearbook of International Law, 68, 1–63 665. Jose Maria Ruda (1991), ‘Some of the Contributions of theInternational Court of Justice to the Development of InternationalLaw’, New York University Journal of International Law andPolitics, 24, 35–68 1296. Janina Satzer (2007), ‘Explaining the Decreased Use ofInternational Courts – The Case of the ICJ’, Review of Law andEconomics, 3 (1), 11–36 1637. Manfred Lachs (1983), ‘Some Reflections on the Contribution ofthe International Court of Justice to the Development ofInternational Law’, Syracuse Journal of International Law andCommerce, 10, 239–78 1898. Niels Petersen (2011), ‘Lawmaking by the International Court ofJustice – Factors of Success’, German Law Journal, 12 (5),1295–316 229PART III THE COURT IN A POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT9. Andrew Coleman (2003), ‘The International Court of Justice andHighly Political Matters’, Melbourne Journal of International Law,4 (1), 29–75 25210. Dapo Akande (1997), ‘The International Court of Justice and theSecurity Council: Is there Room for Judicial Control of Decisionsof the Political Organs of the United Nations?’, International andComparative Law Quarterly, 46 (2), April, 309–43 29911. Eric A. Posner and Miguel F. P. de Figueiredo (2005), ‘Is theInternational Court of Justice Biased?’, Journal of Legal Studies, 34(2), June, 599–630 33412. Vera Gowlland-Debbas (1994), ‘The Relationship between theInternational Court of Justice and the Security Council in the Lightof the Lockerbie Case’, American Journal of International Law, 88(4), October, 643–77 366PART IV JUDGES OF THE COURT13. Chittharanjan F. Amerasinghe (2001), ‘Judges of the InternationalCourt of Justice – Election and Qualifications’, Leiden Journal ofInternational Law, 14 (2), June, 335–48 40214. Cosette Creamer and Zuzanna Godzimirska (2017), ‘The JobMarket for Justice: Screening and Selecting Candidates for theInternational Court of Justice’, Leiden Journal of International Law,30 (4), December, 947–66 41615. Edward Gordon (1987), ‘Observations on the Independence andImpartiality of the Members of the International Court of Justice’,Connecticut Journal of International Law, 2, 397–426 436PART V JURISDICTION, PROCEDURE AND COMPLIANCE16. Edvard Hambro (1948), ‘Some Observations on the CompulsoryJurisdiction of the International Court of Justice’, British Yearbookof International Law, 25, 133–57 46717. Jonathan I. Charney (1987), ‘Compromissory Clauses and theJurisdiction of the International Court of Justice’, American Journalof International Law, 81 (4), October, 855–87 49218. Shabtai Rosenne (2009), ‘Capacity to Litigate in the InternationalCourt of Justice: Reflections on Yugoslavia in the Court’, BritishYearbook of International Law, 80 (1), 217–43 52519. Simon Olleson (2005), ‘“Killing Three Birds with One Stone”? ThePreliminary Objections Judgments of the International Court ofJustice in the Legality of Use of Force Cases’, Leiden Journal ofInternational Law, 18 (2), June, 237–55 55220. Aloysius P. Llamzon (2007), ‘Jurisdiction and Compliance inRecent Decisions of the International Court of Justice’, EuropeanJournal of International Law, 18 (5), November, 815–52 57121. Colter Paulson (2004), ‘Compliance with Final Judgments of theInternational Court of Justice since 1987’, American Journal ofInternational Law, 98 (3), July, 434–61 60922. Stanimir A. Alexandrov (1995), ‘Non-Appearance before theInternational Court of Justice’, Columbia Journal of TransnationalLaw, 33 (1), 41–72 63723. Stefan Talmon (2015), ‘Determining Customary International Law:The ICJ’s Methodology between Induction, Deduction andAssertion’, European Journal of International Law, 26 (2), May,417–43 669Volume IIContentsAcknowledgements viiiIntroduction An introduction for both volumes by the editor appears in Volume IPART I ADVISORY OPINIONS OF THE COURT1. Sir Kenneth Keith (1996), ‘The Advisory Jurisdiction of theInternational Court of Justice: Some Comparative Reflections’,Australian Year Book of International Law, 17, 39–58 22. Karin Oellers-Frahm (2011), ‘Lawmaking Through AdvisoryOpinions?’, German Law Journal, 12 (5), March, 1033–55 223. Dapo Akande (1998), ‘The Competence of InternationalOrganizations and the Advisory Jurisdiction of the InternationalCourt of Justice’, European Journal of International Law, 9 (3),437–67 454. Stephen M. Schwebel (1984), ‘Widening the Advisory Jurisdictionof the International Court of Justice without Amending its Statute’,Catholic University Law Review, 33 (2), 355–61 765. David Sloss (2002), ‘Using International Court of Justice AdvisoryOpinions to Adjudicate Secessionist Claims’, Santa Clara LawReview, 42 (2), 357–89 83PART II SPECIALIZED BODIES OF LAW6. Gentian Zyberi (2007), ‘The Development and Interpretation ofInternational Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Rules andPrinciples through the Case-Law of the International Court ofJustice’, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 25 (1), March,117–39 1177. Bruno Simma (2012), ‘Mainstreaming Human Rights: TheContribution of the International Court of Justice’, Journal ofInternational Dispute Settlement, 3 (1), March, 7–29 1408. Vincent Chetail (2003), ‘The Contribution of the International Courtof Justice to International Humanitarian Law’, International Reviewof the Red Cross, 85 (850), June, 235–69 1639. Jorge E. Viñuales (2008), ‘The Contribution of the InternationalCourt of Justice to the Development of International EnvironmentalLaw: A Contemporary Assessment’, Fordham International LawJournal, 32 (1), 232–58 198PART III FRAGMENTATION10. Rosalyn Higgins (2003), ‘The ICJ, the ECJ, and the Integrity ofInternational Law’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly,52 (1), January, 1–20 22611. Pierre-Marie Dupuy (1999), ‘The Danger of Fragmentation orUnification of the International Legal System and the InternationalCourt of Justice’, New York University Journal of International Lawand Politics, 31 (4), 791–807 24612. Andrew Lang (2013), ‘The Role of the International Court ofJustice in a Context of Fragmentation’, International andComparative Law Quarterly, 62 (4), October, 777–812 263PART IV SOME LEADING CASES13. Edward Gordon (1971), ‘Old Orthodoxies Amid New Experiences:The South West Africa (Namibia) Litigation and the UncertainJurisprudence of the International Court of Justice’, Denver Journalof International Law and Policy, 1, 65–92 30014. Paul W. Kahn (1987), ‘From Nuremberg to The Hague: The UnitedStates Position in Nicaragua v. United States and the Developmentof International Law’, Yale Journal of International Law, 12 (1),Winter, 1–62 32815. Lori Fisler Damrosch (2012), ‘The Impact of the Nicaragua Caseon the Court and Its Role: Harmful, Helpful, or In Between?’,Leiden Journal of International Law, 25 (1), March, 135–47 39016. Wladyslaw Czapliński (1989), ‘Sources of International Law in theNicaragua Case’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly,38 (1), January, 151–66 40317. Malcolm D. Evans and Christine Chinkin (1996), ‘The East TimorCase (Portugal v. Australia)’, International and Comparative LawQuarterly, 45 (3), July, 712–25 41918. Gerry J. Simpson (1994), ‘Judging the East Timor Dispute: Self-Determination at the International Court of Justice’, HastingsInternational and Comparative Law Review, 17 (2), 323–47 43319. Eric David (1997), ‘The Opinion of the International Court ofJustice on the Legality of the Use of Nuclear Weapons’,International Review of the Red Cross, 79 (823), 21–34 45820. Richard A. Falk (1997), ‘Nuclear Weapons, International Law andthe World Court: A Historic Encounter’, American Journal ofInternational Law, 91 (1), January, 64–75 47221. 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 48422. Chittharanjan F. Amerasinghe (2008), ‘The Bosnia Genocide Case’,Leiden Journal of International Law, 21 (2), June, 411–28 51023. Iain Scobbie (2005), ‘Unchart(er)ed Waters?: Consequences of theAdvisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Constructionof a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the Responsibilityof the UN for Palestine’, European Journal of International Law,16 (5), November, 941–61 52824. Christine Gray (2004), ‘The ICJ Advisory Opinion on LegalConsequences of the Construction of a Wall in the OccupiedPalestinian Territory’, Cambridge Law Journal, 63 (3), November,527–32 54925. Alexander Orakhelashvili (2006), ‘Legal Consequences of theConstruction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:Opinion and Reaction’, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 11(1), Spring, 119–39 55526. Simon Chesterman (2015), ‘The International Court of Justice inAsia: Interpreting the Temple of Preah Vihear Case’, Asian Journalof International Law, 5 (1), January, 1–8 57627. Phoebe Okowa (2011), ‘The International Court of Justice and theGeorgia/Russia Dispute’, Human Rights Law Review, 11 (4),December, 739–57 58428. Sandy Ghandhi (2011), ‘Human Rights and the International Courtof Justice: The Ahmadou Sadio Diallo Case’, Human Rights LawReview, 11 (3), December, 527–55 60329. Vincent-Joël Proulx (2017), ‘The World Court’s JurisdictionalFormalism and its Lost Market Share: The Marshall IslandsDecisions and the Quest for a Suitable Dispute Settlement Forumfor Multilateral Disputes’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 30(4), September, 925–46 632

‘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.’