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The Practice of International Law: Threats, Challenges, and Opportunities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2019

Christopher Greenwood GBE, CMG, QC
Christopher Greenwood GBE, CMG, QC*
Affiliation:
Iran-United States Claims Tribunal; formerly Judge of the International Court of Justice (2009–2018).
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It is a great pleasure for me, as a British member of the Society, to give the keynote address to this year's Annual Meeting. I have now been a member of the Society for forty years and one of the attributes of the Annual Meeting I have always enjoyed and appreciated is that the American Society goes out of its way to welcome its overseas members and to make them part of every aspect of the meeting. I am more than ever aware of that welcome this year, both because you have invited me to give this address and because, as the president has mentioned, I have just had the signal honor of becoming one of the three U.S.-appointed members of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. You will, however, understand that my pleasure at that appointment is balanced by the profound sense of loss which—like everyone here—I feel at the loss of David Caron. David was a brave and distinguished public servant and a very great friend whom I very much miss. Being asked to follow in his footsteps is both a great compliment and a very great challenge.

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Keynote Address
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 112 , 2018 , pp. 161 - 167
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Copyright © by The American Society of International Law 2019 

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Footnotes

The Assembly was convened at 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, April 5, 2018, and the Keynote Address was given by Sir Christopher Greenwood, Judge on the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal.

References

1 Aegean Sea Continental Shelf Case (Greece v. Turk.), 1978 ICJ Rep. 3 (Dec. 19).

2 Beagle Channel Arbitration (Arg./Chile), 52 ILR 93.

3 See 82 ILR 671.

4 The case was Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean (Bolivia v. Chile). Judgment was given on October 1, 2018.

5 Obligations Concerning Negotiations Relating to Cessation of the Nuclear Arms Race and to Nuclear Disarmament, (Marsh. Is. v. India), 2016 ICJ Rep. 255 (Oct. 5); (Marsh. Is. v. Pak.), 2016 ICJ Rep. 552 (Oct. 5); (Marsh. Is. v. U.K.), 2016 ICJ Rep. 833 (Oct. 5).

6 The Marshall Islands had attempted to bring proceedings against all nine states but there was obviously no jurisdictional basis with regard to China, France, Israel, North Korea, the Russian Federation, or the United States of America and, in the absence of forum prorogatum, those cases did not proceed.

7 See, in particular, Phosphate Lands in Nauru (Nauru v. Austl.), 1992 ICJ Rep. 240, paras. 31–36 (June 26).

8 80 ILR 224.

9 I have developed this theme in Unity and Diversity in International Law, in A Farewell to Fragmentation, at 37 (Andenas, Mads & Bjorge, Eirik eds., 2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 Hassan v. United Kingdom, App. No. 29750/09, 161 ILR 524 (2014).