International Court of Justice Pleadings

Citation Notes

The International Court of Justice publishes Pleadings, Oral Arguments, Documents (abbreviated ‘ICJ Pleadings’), which contains documents and transmissions of the parties and the Court (such as the application instituting proceedings, submissions, minutes of oral argument and evidence).

The International Court of Justice Pleadings series is organised by case, then volume number.

Resources

Further Reading

• Alexandrov, Stanimir A. “Non-Appearance Before the International Court of Justice.” 33 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 41 (1995).
• Alexandrov, Stanimir A. Reservations in Unilateral Declarations Accepting the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice. Dordrecht; Boston: Nijhoff, 1995.
• Amsden, Ted T., & Margaret A. Costello. “Arguing in the Hague.” 73 Michigan Bar Journal 1094 (1994).
• Burroughs, John. The Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to the Historic Opinion of the International Court of Justice. Munster: LIT, 1997.
• Deutsch, Eberhard P. An International Rule of Law. Charlottesville, Va.: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1977. Provides full insight into the administrative issues and organization of the Court, with bases of decisions, election of judges, domestic jurisdiction, and enforcement of decrees.
• Procedure in the International Court. by Shabtai Rosenne (Nijhoff, 1983). This publication contains a commentary on the 1978 Rules. Also, the Statute, Rules of the Court, and the UN Charter are fully indexed.
• The Law and Practice of the International Court. by Shabtai Rosenne (Nijhoff, 1997). Thorough view of the Court including history, organization, jurisdiction, contentious practice and procedure, and advisory practice and procedure. There is also a concordance of the 1978, 1972, 1936/1947, and 1922/1926/1931 Rules of the Court.
• Elian, George. The International Court of Justice. Leyden, The Netherlands: Sijthoff, 1971. Covers history, organization, the advisory activity, and includes a chapter on decisions and advisory opinions.
• Elias, Taslim Olawale. The International Court of Justice and Some Contemporary Problems: Essays on International Law. Boston: Nijhoff, 1983. Covers aspects of the judicial process, such as non-appearing respondent, provisional measures of protection, and inter-temporal law. Also encompasses international law and development, legal aspects of the new international economic order, and a chapter on human rights.
• Elias, Taslim Olawale. The United Nations Charter and the World Court. Lagos: Nigerian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, 1989.
• Elkind, Jerome B. Interim Protection: A Functional Approach. Boston: Nijhoff, 1981. Covers the background issues on interim protection, history and development of the rules , cases and issues arising from interim measures. Extensive bibliography.
• Elkind, Jerome B. Non-Appearance before the International Court of Justice. Boston: Nijhoff, 1984. A comparative study of the consequences of nonappearance in different systems (civil and common law, roman law, canonical procedure, etc.) and an evaluation of the effects of default in the International Court of Justice. Covers interim protection and self-judgment.
• Falk, Richard A. Reviving the World Court. Charlottesville, Va.: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1986.
• Fifty Years of the International Court of Justice: Essays in Honour of Sir Robert Jennings. Vaughan Lowe & Malgosia Fitzmaurice, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Gill, Terry D. “International Court of Justice—Advisory Jurisdiction–Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations — Reservations,” 84 American University Journal of International Law & Policy 742-46 (1990).
• Hussain, Ijaz. Dissenting and Separate Opinions at the World Court. Boston: Nijhoff, 1984.
• International Court of Justice. The Case Against the Bomb: Marshall Islands, Samoa, and Solomon Islands Before the International Court of Justice in Advisory Proceedings on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: Questions Posed by the General Assembly and the World Health Organization. Roger S. Clark and Madeleine Sann, eds. Camden, N.J.: Rutgers University School of law at Camden, 1996.
• Keith, Kenneth James. The Extent of the Advisory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice. Leyden, The Netherlands: Sijthoff, 1971. In-depth study of the advisory competence of the I.C.J.
• Krea, Milenko. Dissenting Opinion of Judge ad hoc Krea in genocide case preliminary objections. Belgrade: BIGZ, 1997.
• Lachs, Manfred. “Thoughts on the Recent Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice,” 4 Emory International Law Review 77 (1990).
• Lloyd, Lorna. Peace Through Law: Britain and the International Court in the 1920s. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Rochester, N.Y.: Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, 1997.
• Merrills, J.G. Judge Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice and the Discipline of International Law: Opinions on the International Court of Justice, 1961-1973. The Hague; Boston: Kluwer, 1998.
• Nanda, Ved P. & David Krieger. Nuclear Weapons and the World Court. Ardsley, N.Y.: Transnational, 1998.
• New Zealand at the International Court of Justice: French Nuclear Testing in the Pacific: Nuclear Tests Case, New Zealand v. France. Wellington, N.Z.: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1996.
• O’Connell, Mary Ellen. “The Prospects for Enforcing Monetary Judgments of the International Court of Justice: A Study of Nicaragua’s Judgment Against the United States,” 30 Virginia Journal of International Law 891 (1990).
• Remedies in International Law: The Institutional Dilemma. Malcolm D. Evans, ed. Oxford: Hart, 1998.
• Ris, Martin. “Treaty Interpretation and ICJ Recourse to Travaux Preparatoires: Towards a Proposed Amendment of Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties,” 14 B.C. International & Comparative Law Review 111 (1990).
• Rosenne, Shabtai. “All’s Well that Ends Well. Or is it? More on the publications of the International Court of Justice,’” 84 American Journal of International Law 586 (1990).
• Rosenne, Shabtai. Intervention in the International Court of Justice. Boston: Nijhoff, 1993.
• Rosenne, Shabtai. The Time Factor in the Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice. Leyden, The Netherlands: Sijthoff, 1960. A short introduction to personal and material jurisdiction of the I.C.J.
• Schwebel, Stephen M. “The Docket and Decisionmaking Process of the International Court of Justice,” 13 Suffolk Transnational Law Journal 543 (1990).
• Schwebel, Stephen M. Justice in International Law: Selected Writings of Judge Stephen M. Schwebel. Holmes Beach, FL: Gaunt, 1994. Written by a highly respected member of the Court. The first half of the book examines the performance and capacity of the ICJ.
• Sztucki, Jerzy. Interim Measures in the Hague Court. Deventer: Kluwer, 1983. A thorough study of the provisional remedies in the I.C.J. Extensive bibliography.
• The World Court: What It Is and How It Works. Shabtai Rosenne (Nijhoff, 1989). In addition to an introduction to the Court, this useful work contains the Rules, the Statute, a list of parties to the Statute, judicial statistics, and the composition of the Court from 1922-1988.
• The International Court of Justice: Process, Practice and Procedure. D. W. Bowett and others; (London: B.I.I.C.L., 1997).
• Thirlway, H. W. A. Non-Appearance Before the International Court of Justice. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985.
• Thirlway, H. W. A. “Normative Surrender and the ‘Duty’ to Appeal Before the International Court of Justice: A Reply,” 11 Michigan Journal of International Law 912 (1990).
• Toope, Stephen J. “Pragmatic Compromise or Mere Transaction? The Use of Chamber Procedures in International Adjudication,” 31 Virginia Journal of International Law 53 (1990).
• Yambrusic, Edward Slavko. Treaty Interpretation: Theory and Reality. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1987.
• Yarnold, Barbara. International Fugitives: A New Role for the International Court of Justice. New York: Praeger, 1991.