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The 1997 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Peter H. F. Bekker
Peter H. F. Bekker*
Affiliation:
McDermott, Will & Emery, New York, N.Y
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Extract

This Note summarizes the judicial work of the International Court of Justice during 1997, using the updated General List, pleadings filed, Orders and Judgments given and hearings held at the Peace Palace in The Hague to describe the Court’s current record.

Type
Current Developments
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 92 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 350 - 351
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1998

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References

1 For a summary of the jurisprudence and judicial activity of the ICJ for the period 1987–1996, see Commentaries on World Court Decisions (1987–1996) (Peter H. F. Bekker ed., 1998).

2 The Rules of Court require that a counterclaim be directly concerned with the subject matter of the claim of the other party. It must also come within the Court’s jurisdiction. See ICJ Rules of Court, Art. 80, para. 1, reprinted in 73 AJIL 748, 761 (1979).

3 1997 ICJ Rep. 3. See Peter, Tomka & Samuel, S. Wordsworth, The First Site Visit of the International Court of Justice in Fulfillment of Its Judicial Function , 92 AJIL 133 (1998)Google Scholar.

4 See ICJ Communique No. 97/18 (Dec. 17, 1997). In its Order, the Court also fixed January 23, 1998, and July 23, 1998, as the time limits within which Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yugoslavia are to submit a Reply and a Rejoinder, respectively, stating their views.

5 Slip opinion available from the ICJ Registry. The text is also available at (http://www.icj-cij.org). For a summary of this decision, see my case note, supra p. 273.