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The Thirty-Fourth Year of the World Court*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Manley O. Hudson
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On April 6, 1955, during its thirty-fourth year, the International Court of Justice decided one case brought on December 17, 1951, by Liechtenstein against Guatemala—the Nottebohm Case—in favor of Guatemala. It also gave an Advisory Opinion to the General Assembly of the United Nations on June 7, 1955, on the Voting Procedure on Questions relating to Reports and Petitions concerning the Territory of South-West Africa.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , January 1956 , pp. 1 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1956

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Footnotes

*

This is the thirty-fourth in the writer’s series of annual articles on the World Court, the publication of which was begun in this JOURNAL, Vol. 17 (1923), p. 15.

References

1 [1955] I.C.J. Rep. 4; see also 48 A.J.I.L. 12 (1954).

2 [1953] I.C.J. Rep. 111; see 48 A.J.I.L. 17 (1954).

3 [1955] I.C.J. Rep. 67; 49 A.J.I.L. 565 (1955). For other documents relating to the case, see I.C.J. Pleadings, South-West Africa (Voting Procedure).

4 [1955] I.C.J. Rep. 80.

5 [1955] I.C.J. Rep. 124.

6 [1953] I.C.J. Rep. 10; 47 A.J.I.L. 708 (1953).

7 (British) Treaty Series, No. 20 (1955).

8 The text of the amended treaty is given in (British) Treaty Series, No. 39 (1955), Cmd. 9498, in an appendix, p. 23.

9 I.C.J. Yearbook, 1954–1955, p. 217.

10 Ibid., pp. 217–218.