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The Role of Legal Advisers in International Law. Edited by Andraž Zidar and Jean-Pierre Gauci. Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2017. Pp. xviii, 390. Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2018

John R. Crook*
Affiliation:
Of the Board of Editors

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Copyright © 2018 by The American Society of International Law 

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References

1 112th American Society of International Law Annual Meeting Program 1 (2018).

2 This review adopts the convention adopted by the editors of the volume under review, referring to the person who heads a foreign ministry legal department as the “Legal Adviser,” while referring to the attorneys working under the Legal Adviser and others providing international advice as “legal advisers.”

3 Richard B. Bilder, The Office of the Legal Adviser: The State Department Lawyer and Foreign Affairs, 56 AJIL 633 (1962).

4 UN Office of Legal Affairs, The Role of the Legal Adviser, at http://legal.un.org/ola/role_legal_advisor.aspx.

5 Council of Europe, Database on the Organization and Functions of the Office of the Legal Adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at https://www.coe.int/en/web/cahdi/organisation-and-functions-of-the-office-of-legal-counsel.

6 Note: Spelling (“Advisor”) in original.

7 Quoting Berman, Franklin, The Role of the International Lawyer in the Making of Foreign Policy, in The International Lawyer as Practitioner 4 (Wickremasinghe, Chanaka ed., 2000)Google Scholar.

8 Whaling in the Antarctic (Austl. v. Japan, N.Z. Intervening), Judgment, 2014 ICJ Rep. 226 (Mar. 31).