THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE AND SOME CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMSPDF电子书下载

Introduction 1

PART ONE:ASPECTS OF THE JUDICIAL PROCESS 13

1.Methodological problems faced by the International Court of Justice in the application of international law 13

(a)Aspects of internal judicial practice of the Court 13

(b)Some problems of admissibility 17

(c)Certain aspects of jurisdictional problems 20

(d)Certain other incidental questions 23

(e)A preliminary issue before an advisory opinion is rendered 26

2.The International Court of Justice and the non-appearing respondent 33

(a)Requirements of Article 53 of the Court's Statute 35

(b)Application of Article 53 in general 39

(c)Certain basic issues and the recent phase 41

3.The International Court of Justice and the indication of provisional measures of protection 67

(a)Judges ad hoc and provisional measures 72

(b)The necessity to hear both sides 73

(c)Application for provisional measures and the issue of jurisdiction 74

(d)The significance of the word "indicate" 78

(e)Basis for the Court's indication of interim measures 80

4.The limits of the right of intervention in a case before the International Court of Justice 84

(a)Introduction 84

(b)Argument that Article 62 should not be read in isolation 89

(c)Is there a contradiction between Article 62 of the Statute and Rule 81(2)(c)? 92

(d)Is a would-be intervener a party in the case? 94

(e)The last phase 96

5.The international Court of Justice and the nuclear tests cases 100

(a)Introduction 100

(b)The issue of unilateral declarations 105

(c)The question of mootness of the dispute 114

(d)Implications of the decisions in the case 116

6.The doctrine of inter-temporal law 119

(a)Emergence of the doctrine 119

(b)Its restatement and analysis 120

(c)The latest phase 133

(d)Reappraisal and delimitation of scope 141

7.New perspectives and conceptions in contemporary public international law 148

(a)Human Rights 149

(b)Diplomatic Law 151

(c)Law of the Sea 152

(d)Wars of National Liberation and Humanitarian Law 156

(e)Legal aspects of the New International Economic Order 160

(f)Conclusion 163

PART TWO:INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DEVELOPMENT 167

8.Sovereign immunity and commercial transactions 167

9.The work of international organizations in the economic and social fields 180

(a)Introduction 180

(b)The U.N.Charter on economic and social matters 182

(c)The ECOSOC functional commissions 185

(d)The ECOSOC regional commissions 186

(e)Other complementary bodies under ECOSOC 187

(f)The United Nations specialized agencies 189

(g)Conclusion 203

10.The rule-making process and the future of international law 205

(a)Introduction 205

(b)The standard mode of international law-making 207

(c)Other methods of international law-making 208

(d)Law-making and certain learned international institutions 212

(e)Resolutions and declarations in international lawmaking 213

(f)Is there a species of international judicial law-making? 216

(g)Certain recent innovations in international lawmaking 217

PART THREE:LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER 223

11.Basic principles and perspectives of the New International Economic Order 223

(a)The General Assembly initiated a study 224

(b)Certain regional developments 230

(c)A new dimension 234

12.The New International Economic Order and human rights 238

(a)The Brandt Report 239

(b)Reflections on the implications of the Report 243

(c)Human rights in economic historical perspectives 244

(d)Human rights and the Third World 249

PART FOUR:HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIPLOMATIC LAW 255

13.Regional commissions on human rights with special reference to Africa 255

(a)Towards the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 255

(b)Human rights in relation to the rule of law 261

(c)Assessment of existing human rights implementation machinery 264

(d)Certain prerequisites for regional human rights machinery 268

(e)The regional idea for Africa 272

(f)Summary of conclusions 280

14.Recent trends in diplomatic law and human rights 284

PART FIVE:THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE AND AFRICA 299

Introduction to Part Five 299

15.The era of protectorates,colonies and capitulations 300

16.The era of decolonization 317

17.The disappearance of the mandate and trusteeship systems 334

Table of international court cases 351

List of treaties,conventions,statutes,etc 357

Bibliography 361

Index 365