Pinto, Mónica Keywords: United Nations | Security Council | Charter | Use of force | International relations | Self-defence | International Court of Justice | Case-law | Mots clefs: Nations Unies | Conseil de sécurité | Chartre | Force | Relations internationales | Défense légitime | Cour internationale de Justice | Jurisprudence | ABSTRACT The course of Mrs. Monica Pinto, Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, proposes to retrace the history of the characterizations of the use of force in the light of the jurisprudence of international court…

Exc. M. Mohammed Bedjaoui, S. Keywords: International Court of Justice | Mots clefs: Cour internationale de Justice | ABSTRACT In the introduction to his communication, Mohammed Bedjaoui, President of the International Court of Justice, pointed out that the ravages of time spare neither men nor institutions, and that it is good, on the occasion of the Court's jubilee, to make a complete check-up. He devotes the communication to the ravages of time. The author positively concludes by quoting Nicolas Politis: "Inter…

Michael Reisman, W. Keywords: International Court of Justice | Jurisdiction | Mots clefs: Cour internationale de Justice | Juridiction | ABSTRACT This course of W. Michael Reisman, Professor at Yale University, New Haven, is concerned with the identification and analysis of a particular form of jurisdiction assigned to the International Court of Justice: the international judicial supervision of international arbitration. In the framework of this study Professor Reisman pays particular attention to the sometimes ver…

Thierry, Hubert Keywords: International Court of Justice | United Nations | Resolutions | Mots clefs: Cour internationale de Justice | Nations Unies | Résolutions | ABSTRACT Hubert Thierry, Professor at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, emphasizes in the introduction to his course that the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice should be recognized as the authority for judicial interpretation of law on behalf of the international community, and to affirm that this is a privileged source of knowledge of int…

Mbaye, Kéba Keywords: International Court of Justice | Interested party | Admissibility | Procedure | Mots clefs: Cour internationale de Justice | Intéressé | Recevabilité | ABSTRACT In this course, Keba Mbaye, Vice-President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), intends to give an account of a concept of interest in bringing proceedings before the ICJ in all its forms and in all cases where it is likely, even theoretically, to play a role. Within the framework of this objective, the author first presents some gene…

Abou-El-Wafa, Ahmed Keywords: International Court of Justice | Borde | Delimitation | Case-law | Mots clefs: Cour internationale de Justice | Frontières | Délimitation | Jurisprudence | ABSTRACT The course is divided into two parts. Part I discusses the ICJ and the settlement of disputes over land borders of which the author focuses mainly on the concept of the land border dispute and the applicable principles for its resolution, as well as the role of the court in this regard. Part II discusses the ICJ and the main proble…

Torres Bernárdez, Santiago Keywords: International Court of Justice | Intervention | Law of procedure | Mots clefs: Cour internationale de Justice | Intervention et non-intervention | Droit procédural | ABSTRACT The central theme in this course by Santiago Torres Bernardez, former Registrar of the International Court of Justice, is to show what characterizes a “true intervention” under the terms of the statute of the International Court of Justice. The author has essentially drawn the data for his study from the jurisprudenc…

McWhinney, Q.C., Edward Keywords: International Court of Justice | Jurisdiction | Mots clefs: Cour internationale de Justice | Juridiction | ABSTRACT Edward McWhinney, Professor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, devotes his course to judicial settlement of disputes. After an examination of contemporary conceptions of the role of judicial settlement of disputes, the author examines the contemporary international legal process and the dichotomy between law and politics. Next, he studies the jurisdiction of the In…

PLENDER, RICHARD Keywords: European Free Trade Association | Court of justice; Procedure | Court of Justice of the European Communities | European Court of Human Rights | International Court of Justice | Court of First Instance of the European Communities | Mots clefs: Association européenne de libre-échange | Cour de justice | Procédure | Cour de justice des Communautés européennes | Cour européenne des droits de l homme | Cour internationale de Justice | Tribunal de première instance des Communautés européennes | ABSTRACT Professor Richard Plender proposes in this course to …

Crawford, James Keywords: Obligations of the state | Public international law | Development of international law | Ius cogens | International Law Commission | State responsibility | United Nations | Charter | International Court of Justice | Mots clefs: Obligations des états | Droit international public | Développement du droit international | Jus cogens | Commission du droit international | Responsabilité des Etats | Nations Unies | Charte | Cour internationale de Justice | ABSTRACT The author, director of the Lauterpacht Center for International Law, examines in this…

Oda, Shigeru Keywords: International Court of Justice | Judicial settlement of international disputes | Mots clefs: Cour internationale de Justice | Règlement judiciaire des différends internationaux | ABSTRACT In this course devoted to the International Court of Justice as viewed from the bench, Shigeru Oda, judge and former vice-president of the International Court of Justice, attempts to present the institution from an institutional and functional point of view. Shigeru Oda intends to give a general overview of the Cour…