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Do New Problems Need New Courts?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Philip C. Jessup*
Affiliation:
International Court of Justice

Abstract

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Type
Fifth Session
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1971

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Footnotes

1

I am indebted to Mrs. Edith Brown Weiss, LL.B., an expert on weather modification, for assistance in collecting materials used in these remarks.

References

2 Assessors may be characterized as being almost assistant judges, without the right to vote. They are thus different from “experts” who are often used by national courts of various legal systems and by international tribunals. The institution of assessors deserves more detailed study.

3 The Helsinki Rules on Dispute Settlement on International Rives provide an elaborate scheme of steps all the way from negotiation to the International Court of Justice.

4 9 Int. Legal Materials I (1970).

5 10 ibid. 261, 284 (1971).

6 T.I.A.S., No. 5969; 52 A.J.I.L. 851 (1958).

7 T.I.A.S., No. 6584.

8 65 A.J.I.L. 440 (1971); 10 Int. Legal Materials 133 (1971).