The International Court of Justice
By: Robert Kolb
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1307
ISBN-13: 9781782256038; 9781782251880; 9781306515825
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Rules and practice; International Court of Justice; International Court; International law; Law; LAW; International
Work titles: Cour international de justice
Description: This new work, by a leading academic authority on international law who also appears as an advocate before the Court, examines the Statute of the Court, its procedures, conventions and practices.
Notes: Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Preliminary Pages; Preface; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; Table of Cases; Table of Legislative and Related Acts; I) Initial Observations on the Peaceful Resolution of International Disputes; 1. Importance and Context; 2. Chapter VI of the United Nations Charter; II) Origin and Environment of the International Court of Justice at The Hague; 1. Arbitration and Organised Justice: Creation of the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1920; 2. The Transition in 1945 from the Permanent Court of International Justice to the International Court of Justice.; title: 3. The International Court of Justice as the Principle Organ of the United Nations and of Public International Law4. The Main International Jurisdictions based at The Hague; III) The Texts Governing the Court's Activities; 1. Constitutive Texts: The Statute and the Charter; 2. The Rules: Derivative Provisions; 3. Subordinate Texts: Pratice Directions; IV) Composition of the Court; 1. The Bench; 2. Electing the Judges; 3. Chambers of the Court; 4. The Registry; V) Contentious Procedure: Inter-State Disputes; 1. First Steps in a Case; 2. Discontinuing a Case.; title: 3. Validity of Seising the Court, Jurisdiction of the Court and Admissibility of an Application4. Preliminary Objections; 5. Personal Jurisdiction (Ratione Personae): Who can Appear before the Court as a Party?; 6. Subject-Matter Jurisdiction (Ratione Materiae): What Cases can the Court Decide?; 7. Consensual Jurisdiction (Ratione Consensus): When can the Court Decide a Case?; 8. Freedom to use Some Other Mode of Dispute Resolution even when there is 'Compulsory Jurisdiction'; title: 9. Limitation of the Court's Jurisdiction if the Subject of the Dispute affects the Rights and Obligations of Third States which have not Consented to it10. Concurrent Titles of Jurisdiction; 11. 'Transitional' Jurisdiction under Article 36, Paragraph 5, and Article 37 of the Statute; 12. Jurisdiction as to Jurisdiction; 13. The Principle of the Forum Perpetuum or Perpetuatio Fori; 14. Provisional Measures of Protection; 15. Counterclaims; 16. Default Procedure; 17. Intervention by Third States; 18. The Power to Pronounce a non liquet; 19. Judgments and Orders by Consent.; title: 20. Declaratory Judgments21. Effects of the Decision; 22. Interpretation of the Judgment; 23. Revision of a Judgment; 24. Implementation of the Judgment; 25. The Court's Competence as an 'Appellate' Body (Supervisory Jurisdiction); 26. Jurisdiction to Review the Legality of Acts of Other United Nations Organs, particularly the Security Council; 27. The Competence of the Security Council to order a Party not to Seise the Court; VI) General Principles applicable to Contentious Proceedings; 1. The Principle 'ne eat judex ultra petita partium'