Legacy of the Wimbledon Case

Roman Kwiecień is Professor of Law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He holds a Chair of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration. His research focuses on issues of statehood, sources of international law, the use of force, dispute resolution and legal philosophy. Professor Kwiecień served as an arbitrator at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (2018-2024) and serves as an arbitrator at the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (since 2019).Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice holds a Chair of Public International Law at the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London. Since 2019 she has been elected an Associate Member of the Institue de Droit International and in 2021 she was awarded the Doctorate Honoris Causa of the University of Neuchâtel. She specialises in international environmental law, the law of treaties, and indigenous peoples. She is Editor in Chief of the journal International Community Law Review.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroductionRoman Kwiecień1 Shadows of Peace: The Reception of the Treaty of Versailles in Germany and PolandRaphael Schäfer2 Public Interest Litigation avant la lettre? Questions of Standing in the Wimbledon CaseChristian J. Tams3 From s.s. Wimbledon to the Allegations of Genocide Case (Ukraine v. Russia): Third-Party Interventions at the World CourtMichał Balcerzak4 The s.s. Wimbledon Judgment: General International Law, ‘Objective Regimes’, ‘Self-contained Regimes’ and Fragmentation of International Law: Then and NowMalgosia Fitzmaurice and Agnes Rydberg5 The Wimbledon Statement on State Sovereignty, and the Relationships between International and National Law: Then and NowWładysław Czapliński6 The Sources of International Law and Legal Obligations of States, and the Normative Hierarchy under the Wimbledon Judgment; or Why ‘Relative Normativity’ Is Intrinsic to the Development of International LawRoman Kwiecień7 Wimbledon Judgement and the Evolutive Nature of Neutrality: Decline of the RelicMichał Kowalski8 Legal Status of International and Internal WaterwaysBarbara StępieńConclusion: Persistent Problems of International Law in the Changing WorldRoman KwiecieńIndex