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The Sources of International Law. By Hugh Thirlway. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 239 + xxi pages.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2016
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- Book Reviews / Recensions de livres
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- Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international , Volume 53 , October 2016 , pp. 624 - 628
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- Copyright © The Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international 2016
References
1 Malcolm D Evans, ed, International Law, 4th edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), ch 4; Hugh Thirlway, The Law and Procedure of the International Court of Justice: Fifty Years of Jurisprudence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
2 Statute of the International Court of Justice, 24 October 1945, 1 UNTS 16, art 38 [ICJ Statute]; Andreas Zimmermann et al, eds, The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary, 2nd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) ch 2, art 38.
3 Vladimir Đuro Degan, Sources of International Law (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1997).
4 Koskenniemi, Martti, ed, Sources of International Law (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2000).Google Scholar
5 Hugh Thirlway, The Sources of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) at 231.
6 Ibid at 55–56.
7 Ibid at 94.
8 See, eg, ibid at 9, 28–30, 232.
9 Ibid, ch IX.
10 Ibid at 231.
11 Ibid at 6, 232.
12 Ibid at 5–6.
13 Nuclear Tests (Australia v France), Judgment, [1974] ICJ Rep 253; Nuclear Tests (New Zealand v France), Judgment, [1974] ICJ Rep 457; ICJ Statute, supra note 2, art 38(1)(a). See Thirlway, supra note 5 at 44–52.
14 See Thirlway, supra note 5 at 23, 79–81.
15 Ibid at 104–10.
16 Ibid at 171.
17 Ibid at 50.
18 See Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, 16 December 1920, reprinted in (1930) 16 Trans Grotius Soc 131, art 38, online: <http://www.refworld.org/docid/40421d5e4.html>. See the discussion in Lorand Bartels, “Applicable Law and Jurisdiction Clauses: Where Does a Tribunal Find the Principal Norms Applicable to the Case Before It?” in Tomer Broude & Yuval Shany, eds, Multi-Sourced Equivalent Norms in International Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011) 115 at 131–34. However, Robert Kolb, The International Court of Justice (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013) at 355 concludes that the ICJ ‘does not … have the right to decide disputes directly on the basis of municipal law’.
19 Thirlway, supra note 5 at 25–28, 181–84.
20 Ibid at 25–28, 183–84.
21 Ibid at 28.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid at 26.
24 Eg, Hirst v United Kingdom (No 2), 2005 ECHR 681.