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The 1999 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Peter H.F. Bekker
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This Note summarizes the judicial work of the International Court of Justice during 1999, using the updated General List, pleadings filed, Orders andjudgments/Advisory Opinions issued,and hearings held at the Peace Palace in The Hague to describe the Court's current record.

Type
Current Developments
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 94 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 412 - 415
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2000

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References

1 Most of the information contained in this Note is available from the ICJ’s Web site <>. For a summary of the jurisprudence and judicial activity of the ICJ during the period 1987–1996, see Commentaries on World Court Decisions (1987–1996) (Peter H.F. Bekker ed., 1998). The years 1997 and 1998 are reported on in 92 AJIL 350 (1998) and 93 AJIL 534 (1999), respectively.

2 Application of Germany filed in the ICJ Registry on March 2; see ICJ Communiqué 99/07 (Mar. 2, 1999).

3 Applications of Yugoslavia filed in the ICJ Registry on April 29; see ICJ Communiqué 99/17 (Apr. 29, 1999).

4 Application of the Congo filed in the ICJ Registry on June 23; see ICJ Communiqué 99/34 (June 23, 1999).

5 Id.

6 Id.

7 Application of Croatia filed in the ICJ Registry on July 2; see ICJ Communiqué 99/38 (July 2, 1999).

8 Application of Pakistan filed in the ICJ Registry on September 21; see ICJ Communiqué 99/43 (Sept. 21, 1999)

9 Application of Nicaragua filed in the ICJ Registry on December 8; see ICJ Communiqué 99/52 (Dec. 8, 1999).

10 See ICJ Communiqué 99/04 (Feb. 16, 1999); ICJ Rules of Court, Art. 38, para. 5, reprinted in 73 AJIL 748, 761 (1979).

11 Full Court Orders fixing time limits were issued in LaGrand Case, 1999 ICJ Rep. 28 (Mar. 5), Lockerbie Cases (June 29), Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (June 30), Legality of Use of Force (June 30, ten separate Orders), Genocide (Croatia) case (Sept. 14), Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Oct. 21, three separate Orders), Aerial Incident (Nov. 19), and Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Nov. 25). Orders extending time limits were issued in Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions between Qatar and Bahrain, 1999 ICJ Rep. 3 (Feb. 17), Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria, 1999 ICJ Rep. 24 (Mar. 3), and Sovereignty over Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan (Sept. 14).

12 1999 ICJ Rep. 9; see ICJ Communiqué 99/09 (Mar. 3, 1999); ICJ Communiqué 99/09 bis (Mar. 5, 1999).

13 For a summary of these Orders, see 93 AJIL 928 (1999). See also ICJ Communiqués 99/23–33 (June 2, 1999).

14 See ICJ Communiqué 99/37 (July 2, 1999).

15 See ICJ Communiqué 99/44 (Oct. 22, 1999).

16 Slip opinion available from the ICJ Registry and the ICJ’s Web site, supra note 1. See also ICJ Communiqués 99/14–14bis (Mar. 25, 1999).

17 Slip opinion available from the ICJ Registry and the ICJ’s Web site, supra note 1. For a summary of this decision, see 93 AJIL 913 (1999). See also ICJ Communiqués 99/16–16bis (Apr. 29, 1999).

18 See ICJ Communiqués 99/53–53bis (Dec. 13, 1999).

19 See ICJ Communiqué 99/47 (Nov. 3, 1999).

20 See ICJ Communiqué 99/42 (Sept. 20, 1999).

21 See ICJ Communiqué 99/54 (Dec. 15, 1999). The Security Council, by Resolution 1278 adopted on November 30, 1999, decided that the election to fill the vacancy resulting from President Schwebel’s resignation will be held in New York on March 2, 2000.

22 The full text of the Address to the General Assembly of October 26, 1999, by the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Stephen M. Schwebel, is available at the ICJ’s Web site, supra note 1. See also ICJ Communiqué 99/46 (Oct. 26, 1999).

23 See ICJ Communiqué 98/14 (Apr. 16, 1998).

24 See Certain Expenses of the United Nations (Article 17, paragraph 2, of the Charter), 1962 ICJ Rep. 151 (Advisory Opinion of July 20) (holding that assessments by General Assembly for expenditures authorized by it and incurred in connection with UN peacekeeping operations in the Congo were expenses of the Organization and legally binding on member states); see also World Court Chief Faults U.S. over Its U.N. Dues, N.Y. Times, Oct. 31, 1999, at A6.