Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
A Point of departure for considering the evolution of t!he judicial function in the United Nations system can be found in three interrelated decisions of principle incorporated in the UN Charter itself, of which the Statute of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) forms an integral part.
1 Documents of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945 (New York: United Nations Information Organization, 1945), Vol. 13, p. 381Google Scholar.
2 Churchill, Winston, The Second World War, Vol. 5: Closing the Ring (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1952), p. 251Google Scholar.
3 Department of State Bulletin, 07 25, 1942 (Vol. 7, No. 161), p. 645Google Scholar.
4 Jenks, C. Wilfred, The Prospects of International Adjudication (London: Stevens & Sons Limited, 1964), p. 104Google Scholar.
5 Hudson, Manley O., International Tribunals, Past and Future (Washington, D.C: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Brookings Institution, 1944), p. 239Google Scholar.
6 For a partial list, see Rosenne, Shabtai, The Law and Practice of the International Court (Leyden: A. W. Sythoff, 1965), pp. 664–666 (General Assembly) and pp. 667–669 (Security Council)Google Scholar.
7 See the discussion of the General Committee in General Assembly Official Records…General Committee (15th session), pp. 2–4, 7Google Scholar.
8 For details, see Rosenne, p. 664.
9 General Assembly Resolution 1731 (XVI), December 20, 1961, requesting the advisory opinion in the case Certain Expenses of the United Nations (Article 17, paragraph 2, of the Charter).
10 Publications of the Permanent Court of International Justice (1923), Series B, No. 5.
11 Discussed more fully in Rosenne, pp. 708–718.
12 UN Document A/5746, paragraph 183.
13 See Rosenne, pp. 437–468.
14 See Rosenne, pp. 393–399.
15 Documents of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945 (New York: United Nations Information Organization, 1945), Vol. 14, p. 853Google Scholar.
16 Ibid., Vol. 13, p. 709.
17 For particulars, see Rosenne, pp. 748–754.
18 Jenks, p. 665.
19 Rosenne, Shabtai, “On the Non-Use of the Advisory Competence of the International Court of Justice”, British Year Book of International Law, 1963 (London: Oxford University Press, 1964), Vol. 39, pp. 6–8, 22–23Google Scholar.
20 UN Document A/5746, paragraphs 191–193.
21 General Assembly Resolution 171 (II), November 14, 1947.
22 UN Document A/5746, paragraphs 166–178.