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The Court and the Judicial Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Shabtai Rosenne
Affiliation:
Legal Adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, a member of Israel's delegation to the United Nations, and a member of the International Law Commission.
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Extract

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.

Type
II. Cooperation and Conflict
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1965

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References

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.

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6 For a partial list, see Rosenne, Shabtai, The Law and Practice of the International Court (Leyden: A. W. Sythoff, 1965), pp. 664666 (General Assembly) and pp. 667–669 (Security Council)Google Scholar.

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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. 68, 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.