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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
This Note summarizes the judicial work of the International Court of Justice during 1996, using the updated General List, pleadings filed, Orders and Judgments given and hearings held at the Peace Palace in The Hague to describe the Court’s current record.
During the calendar year 1996, the Court was seized of one new contentious case: Kasikili/Sedudu Island (Botswana/Namibia). In 1996 a total of eleven cases appeared on the General List. Besides the new case referred to, the contentious proceedings before the full Court were Aerial Incident of 3 July 1988 (Iran v. United States), Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions between Qatar and Bahrain, Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention Arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libya v. United Kingdom) and (Libya v. United States), Oil Platforms (Iran v. United States), Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Yugoslavia), Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia), Fisheries Jurisdiction (Spain v. Canada), and Land and Maritime Boundary (Cameroon v. Nigeria). Advisory proceedings were concluded in Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict (request for an advisory opinion by the World Health Organization) and Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons (request for an advisory opinion by the General Assembly of the United Nations).
1 For my summary of the judicial work of the ICJ during 1991-1992, see 87 AJIL 429 (1993). The period 1993-November 1994 was covered in my Note in 89 AJIL 213 (1995). For the period November 1994- December 31, 1995, see my Note in 90 AJIL 328 (1996).
2 The case was submitted to the Court by the parties’ Special Agreement of February 15, 1996, which was transmitted to the Court on May 29.
3 1996 ICJ Rep. 6.
4 Id. at 58.
5 Id. at 63.
6 Id. at 13.
7 Id. at 3.
8 Id. at 9.
9 Id. at 66. For a summary of this decision, see my case note in 91 AJIL 134 (1997).
10 Slip opinion available from the ICJ Registry. For a summary of this decision, see my case note in 91 AJIL at 126.
11 Slip opinion available from the ICJ Registry. For a summary of this decision, see my case note, written with Paul C. Szasz, in 91 AJIL at 121.
12 Slip opinion available from the ICJ Registry. For a summary of this decision, see my case note at p. 518 supra.
13 On February 6, 1997, Judge Schwebel was elected President and Judge Christopher G. Weeramantry (Sri Lanka) was elected Vice-President of the Court, each for a three-year term.