Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons[1996] ICJ 3 is a landmark international law case,where the International Court of Justice gave an advisory opinion stating that while the threat or use of nuclear weapons would generally be contrary to international humanitarian law,it cannot be concluded whether or not such a threat or use of nuclear weapons would be lawful in extreme circumstances where the very survival of a state would be at stake. The Court held that there is no source of international law that explicitly authorises or prohibits the threat or use of nuclear weapons but such threat or use must be in conformity with the UN Charter and principles of international humanitarian law. The Court also concluded that there was a general obligation to pursue nuclear disarmament.
Philip Caryl Jessup,also Philip C. Jessup,was a 20th-century American diplomat,scholar,and jurist notable for his accomplishments in the field of international law.
H. E. Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga was an Uruguayan professor,jurist,and President of the International Court of Justice.
Hisashi Owada is a Japanese former jurist,diplomat and law professor. He served as a judge on the International Court of Justice from 2003 until June 7,2018,and was President of the Court from 2009 to 2012. He is the father of Empress Masako and the father-in-law of the incumbent Emperor of Japan,Naruhito.
Peter Tomka is a Slovak judge of the International Court of Justice. Prior to his election to the ICJ in 2003,Tomka was a Slovak diplomat.
Bruno Simma is a German jurist who served as a judge on the International Court of Justice from 2003 until 2012.
Sir Hersch Lauterpacht was a British international lawyer,human rights activist,and judge at the International Court of Justice.
Bosnia and Herzegovina v Serbia and Montenegro [2007] ICJ 2 is a public international law case decided by the International Court of Justice.
Sir Christopher John Greenwood is Master of Magdalene College,Cambridge and a former British judge at the International Court of Justice. Prior to his election,he was professor of international law at the London School of Economics and a barrister who regularly appeared as counsel before the International Court of Justice,the European Court of Human Rights,the English courts,and other tribunals.
Stephen Myron Schwebel,is an American jurist and international judge,counsel and arbitrator. He previously served as judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal (2010–2017),as a member of the U.S. National Group at the Permanent Court of Arbitration,as president of the International Monetary Fund Administrative Tribunal (1993–2010),as president of the International Court of Justice (1997–2000),as vice president of the International Court of Justice (1994–1997),and as Judge of the International Court of Justice (1981–2000). Prior to his tenure on the ICJ,Schwebel served as deputy legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State (1974–1981) and as assistant legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State (1961–1967). He also served as a professor of law at Harvard Law School (1959–1961) and Johns Hopkins University (1967–1981). Schwebel is noted for his expansive opinions in momentous cases such as Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua and Oil Platforms.
The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition,also known as the Jessup Moot or The Jessup,is the oldest and largest international moot competition in the world,attracting participants from almost 700 law schools in more than 90 countries in recent years. The competition has been described as the most prestigious moot court competition in the world by a large number of organisations and universities internationally,and is one of the grand slam or major moots.
Roberto Ago was an Italian jurist. He served as a judge on the International Court of Justice from 1979 until 1995. Ago served as Professor of International Law at the Universities of Catania (1934–1935),Genoa (1935–1938),and finally Rome (1956–1982). He specialized in both private and public international law. He gave his first Hague Academy of International Law lecture in 1936 at the age of twenty-eight,on general conflict of laws rules. He also gave lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law in 1939,1956,1971,and 1983,on topics ranging from international torts to the Grotian conception of international law. He also served as Chairman of the Hague Academy Curatorium for the last 20 years of his life. In 1970 Ago was awarded honorary membership in the American Society of International Law. He served as a delegate to international conferences on the law of the sea and on diplomatic relations. In addition,Ago presided over the Vienna Conference on the Law of Treaties from 1968 to 1969. He also acted as counsel for several governments appearing before the International Court of Justice. He was a member of the International Law Commission from 1956 to 1979 and served as its chairman from 1964 to 1965. Former ICJ judge Stephen M. Schwebel said that Ago,through his work with the International Law Commission,had an "extended and preeminent" role in the codification work of the International Law Commission. He also worked closely with the International Labour Organization,twice presiding over the ILO Governing Body. For the last thirty-five years of his life,Ago chaired the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association. Ago was also an active member of the Institut du Droit International from 1932 until his death,serving as its president from 1992 to 1993.
The Corfu Channel case was the first public international law case heard before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) between 1947 and 1949,concerning state responsibility for damages at sea,as well as the doctrine of innocent passage. A contentious case,it was the first of any type heard by the ICJ after its establishment in 1945.
The Oil Platforms case is a public international law case decided by the International Court of Justice in 2003 in which Iran challenged the U.S. Navy's destruction of three oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in 1987-1988. The Court affirmed that it could exercise jurisdiction over the case based on the 1955 Treaty of Amity,Economic Relations and Consular Rights between the United States and Iran but decided with strong majorities against both Iran's claim and the United States' counterclaim.
Shabtai Rosenne was a Professor of International Law and an Israeli diplomat. Rosenne was awarded the 1960 Israel Prize for Jurisprudence,the 1999 Manley O. Hudson Medal for International Law and Jurisprudence,the 2004 Hague Prize for International Law and the 2007 Distinguished Onassis Scholar Award. He was the leading scholar of the World Court - the PCIJ and ICJ and had a widely recognized expertise in treaty law,state responsibility,self-defence,UNCLOS and other issues of international law.
United Nations Security Council resolution 1278,adopted without a vote on 30 November 1999,after noting the resignation of International Court of Justice (ICJ) judge Stephen M. Schwebel taking effect on 29 February 2000,the council decided that elections to the vacancy on the ICJ would take place on 2 March 2000 at the security council and at a meeting of the General Assembly during its 54th session.
Joan E. Donoghue is an American lawyer,international legal scholar,former U.S. State Department official,and the current president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). She was first elected to the court in 2010,re-elected in 2014,and elected by the ICJ judges to be president of the ICJ in 2021. She is the third woman to be elected to the ICJ and the first American woman elected as president of the Court.
Sir William Vincent John Evans was a British diplomat and international lawyer,who served as Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the United Kingdom from 1980 to 1991.
Essex Court Chambers is a set of commercial barristers in Lincoln's Inn Fields,central London. It has 110 tenants,of whom 55 are King's Counsel,also known as Silks. It is considered by legal commentators to be one of the 'Magic Circle' of London's most prestigious commercial barristers' chambers.
Leo Gross was an Austrian-American lawyer of Jewish descent. He was a scholar in the area of international law and international relations and from 1944 to 1980 a professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University.
