Ebook: The Statute of the International Court of Justice A Commentary

Edited by Andreas Zimmermann, Professor of International Law, University of Potsdam, Karin Oellers-Frahm, Dr. iur., Senior Researcher (retired), Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg., Christian Tomuschat, Professor Emeritus, Humboldt-University Berlin, and Christian J. Tams, Professor of International Law, University of Glasgow

Professor Dr. Andreas Zimmermann: Professor University of Potsdam and Director Potsdam Centre of Human Rights; Dr. jur. (Heidelberg), LL.M. (Harvard); former Member of the German delegation to the Preparatory Committee and the United Nations Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court; member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration; counsel in various cases before the ICJ; judge ad hoc in various cases before the European Court of Human Rights; arbitrator under the annex to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties; member of the advisory boards on UN issues and on public international law of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs; inter alia co-editor of 'The Statute of the International Court of Justice - A Commentary' (Oxford University Press, 2006) and editor of the <"The 1951 Convention on the Status of refugees and its 1967 Protocol -. A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Dr Karin Oellers-Frahm is a Senior Researcher (retired) at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg.

Christian Tomuschat, born 23 July 1936 in Stettin (Germany). Professor of constitutional and international law in Bonn (1972-1995) and at Humboldt University Berlin (1995-2004). Member of UN Human Rights Committee (1977-1986) and of UN International Law Commission (1985-1996, President in 1992). Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Guatemala for UN Commission on Human Rights (1990-1993) and co-ordinator of the Comisión para el esclarecimiento histórico in Guatemala (1997-1999). President of German Society of International law (1993-1997). Member, Institut de droit international (since 1997). Counsel for German Government in proceedings before the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.

Christian J. Tams is Professor of International Law at the University of Glasgow (U.K.). He is a qualified lawyer in Germany (admitted 2005) and holds LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge. His research in international law focuses on investment protection, the role of international courts and tribunals, and the law of State responsibility. In addition to his academic work, he has advised states in proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). He is a member of the German Court of Arbitration for Sports and of the ILA Committee on the Use of Force, and has held visiting appointments at universities in China, France and Lithuania.

Contributors:
David Anderson
Professor Mariano Aznar Gómez - Universidad de Valencia
Dr. Markus Benzing - Freshfields
Sir Franklin Berman QC - Essex Court Chambers
Chester Brown - Associate Professor, Sydney Law School
Professor Christine Chinkin - LSE
Philippe Couvreur - International Court of Justice
Judge Jean Pierre Cot - Lambert Associés
Professor Lori Damrosch - Columbia Law School
Professor John Dugard - Universiteit Leiden
Professor Pierre-Marie Dupuy - European University Institute
Professor Carlos Espósito Massicci - Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores
Professor Dr. Bardo Fassbender - University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich
Professor Jochen Abr. Frowein - Max Planck Institut for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Professor Giorgio Gaja - Università di Firenze
Professor Robin Geiß - University of Potsdam
Patricia Georget - International Court of Justice
Professor Thomas Giegerich - Walther Schücking Institute for International Law
Judge Vladimir Golitsyn - International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Professor Vera Gowlland Debbas - Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies
Dame Rosalyn Higgins - Former President, International Court of Justice
Professor Rainer Hofmann - University of Frankfurt
Sir Robert Jennings
Professor Daniel Erasmus Khan - University of the Federal Forces
Professor Wolfram Karl - Austrian Human Rights Institute
Professor Marcelo Kohen - Institut des Hautes Études Internationales
Professor Emeritus Pieter Hendrik Kooijmans
Professor Robert Kolb - Université de Genève
Tilman Laubner
Professor Hans von Mangoldt - University of Tübingen
Professor Sean D. Murphy - Patricia Roberts Harris Research
Professor Paolo Palchetti- Istituto di diritto internazionale e dell'Unione europea Piaggia dell'Università
Professor Dr. Andreas Paulus - German Federal Constitutional Court
Professor Alain Pellet - Université Paris X - Nanterre
Daphné Richemond
Staatsministerin Professor Dr. Dr. Sabine von Schorlemmer - Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
Professor Malcom Shaw - University of Leicester
Judge Bruno Simma - International Court of Justice
Professor Ole Spiermann - Københavns Universitet Det Juridiske Fakultet
Dr. Stefan Talmon - University of Bonn
Tobias Thienel
Professor Hugh Thirlway - International Court of Justice
Professor Santiago Torres Bernárdez
Professor Christian Walter - University of Munich
Professor Gerhard Wegen - Rechtsanwälte Gleiss Lutz
Samuel Wordsworth - Essex Court Chambers
Professor Sienho Yee - Wuhan University
Ralph Zacklin - Assistant-Secretary-General, UN Office of the Legal Counsel
Fully revised and updated new edition of the only article-by-article commentary on the founding Statute of the most important court in international law
Commentary on each provision of the Statute is augmented by analysis of the relevant UN Charter provisions relating to the Court
Draws parallels with other international courts and tribunals, giving a valuable in-depth understanding of the work of the International Court of Justice

New to this edition

New chapters on counter-claims and evidentiary issues
Fully revised and updated to take into account the recent case law of the court and new scholarship

The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations and plays a central role in both the peaceful settlement of international disputes and the development of international law. This comprehensive Commentary on the Statute of the International Court of Justice, now in its second edition, analyses in detail not only the Statute of the Court itself but also the related provisions of the United Nations Charter as well as the relevant provisions of the Court's Rules of Procedure. Five years after the first edition was published, the second edition of the Commentary embraces current events before the International Court of Justice as well as before other courts and tribunals relevant for the interpretation and application of its Statute.

The Commentary provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of all legal questions and issues the Court has had to address in the past and will have to address in the future. It illuminates the central issues of procedure and substance that the Court and counsel appearing before it face in their day-to-day work.

In addition to commentary covering all of the articles of the Statute of the ICJ, plus the relevant articles of the Charter of the United Nations, the book includes three scene-setting chapters: Historical Introduction, General Principles of Procedural Law, and Discontinuation and Withdrawal. The second edition of the Commentary adds two important and instructive chapters on Counter-Claims and Evidentiary Issues.

The combination of expert editors and commentators, and their assessment of new developments in the important work of the ICJ, make this a landmark publication in the field of international law.

Readership: Scholars, advanced students and practitioners specializing in international law and international relations; diplomats and government officials working in foreign legal affairs