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The Fifty-Second Session of the International Law Commission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2017

Robert Rosenstock
Robert Rosenstock*
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International Law Commission
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The International Law Commission held its fifty-second session in Geneva from May 1 to June 9, 2000, and from July 10 to August 18, 2000, under the chairmanship of Ambassador Chusei Yamada of Japan. The Commission elected Professor Djamchid Momtaz of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Kamil E. Idris of Sudan to fill the vacancies left by the death of Doudou Thiam of Senegal and the election of Awn Al-Khasawneh of Jordan to the International Court of Justice.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 95 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 221 - 226
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2001

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1 The emerging practice of splitting the session of the Commission will continue in 2001; furthermore, in order to strengthen the relationship of the Commission to the Sixth Committee, one or two of the half sessions may take place in New York.

2 Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tehran.

3 Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization; General Secretary, International Union for the Preservation of New Varieties of Plants.

4 For an outline of this early conception of the project, see Special Rapporteur Robert Q. Quenfin-Baxter’s schematic outline in [1982] 2 Y.B. Int’l L. Comm’n, pt. 1, at 51, UN Doc. A/CN.4/SERA/1982/Add.l (Part 1), as well as his five draft articles—never referred to the Drafting Committee—in [1984] 2 id., pt. 1, at 155, UN Doc. A/CN.4/SER.A/1984/Add.1 (Part I) .

5 See [1992] 2Y.B. Int’l L. Comm’n, pt. 2, at 51, paras. 341-43, UN Doc. A/CN.4/SER.A/1992/Add.1 (Part 2).

6 See Report of the International Law Commission on the Work of Its Forty-ninth Session, UN GAOR, 52d Sess., Supp. No. 10, para. 166, UN Doc. A/52/10 (1997). Reports of the ILC on its 48th through 52d sessions are available online at <http://www.un.org/law/ilc/index.htm>.

7 For a summary of the draft articles, see Rosenstock, Robert, The Fiftieth Session of the International Law Commission, 93 AJIL 236, 241–42 (1999)Google Scholar.

8 For the full text of the proposed articles, see P. S. Rao, Third Report on International Liability for Injurious Consequences Arising out of Acts Not Prohibited by International Law, UN Doc. A/CN.4/510 (2000).

9 See Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses, May 21, 1997, Art. 28, 36 ILM 700 (1997). 10 Owing to the priority given to the topic of state responsibility, the Drafting Committee was unable to address these articles at its 52d session.

11 See supra note 4.

12 For a discussion of the scope of the topic, see Report of the International Law Commission on the Work of Its Forty-seventh Session, UN GAOR, 50th Sess., Supp. No. 10, para. 491, UN Doc. A/50/10 (1995).

13 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, opened for signature May 23, 1969, 1155 UNTS 331; Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties, Aug. 23,1979,17ILM 1488 (1978); Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties Between States and International Organizations or Between International Organizations, Mar. 21,1986, 25 ILM 543 (1986).

14 For the full text of the guidelines, see Report of the International Law Commission on the Work of its Fifty-first Session, UN GAOR, 54th Sess., Supp. No. 10, para. 470, UN Doc. A/54/10 (1999).

15 Alain Pellet, Fifth Report on Reservations to Treaties, UN Doc. A/CN.4/508 & Adds.1-4 (2000).

16 For the basis of the guidelines, see UN Doc. A/CN.4/508 & Adds.1-2 (2000).

17 UN Doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.6 (1994).

18 John Dugard, First Report on Diplomatic Protection, UN Doc. A/CN.4/506 & Corr.1 & Add.1 (2000) [hereinafter Dugard, First Report].

19 For the full text of the proposed articles and a summary of the attendant debate, see Report of the International Law Commission on the Work of its Fifty-second Session, UN GAOR, 55th Sess., Supp. No. 10, ch. V, UN Doc. A/55/10 (2000). See also Dugard, First Report, supra note 18.

20 UN Doc. A/CN.4/505 (2000) [hereinafter Rodríguez Cedeño, Third Report].

21 UN Doc. A/CN.4/511 (2000).

22 UN Doc. A/CN.4/500 & Add.l (2000).

23 New draft Article 1 (Definition of Unilateral Acts); new draft Article 2 (Capacity of State to Formulate Unilateral Acts); new draft Article 3 (Persons Authorized to Formulate Unilateral Acts on Behalf of a State); and new draft Article 4 (Subsequent Confirmation of an Act Formulated by a Person Not Authorized for That Purpose). For the full text of these articles, see Rodríguez Cedeño, Third Report, supra note 20.