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Some Reflections on Intervention in the International Court of Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2009

Shabtai Rosenne
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I am going to start with a sentence in Dutch: ‘Och, het volkenrecht laat zich kneden, zoals men wil!!’ (‘Oh, you can mould public international law as you like!’).

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Netherlands International Law Review , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , May 1987 , pp. 75 - 90
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1987

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References

1. ‘Bescheiden betreffende de Buitenlandse Politiek 1848–1919, Derde Periode’, 106 Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicaties, part 3, 1907–1914 (1961) p. 796Google Scholar, note by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, De Marees van Swinderen, 7 July 1912. I wish to acknowledge the assistance I received from Mr. Philip van Nieuwenhuizen, Research Assistant, particularly with regard to the examination of the Dutch materials, including the Asser archives, in connection with this lecture.

2. Licari, T., in a letter to the editor in 76 AJIL (1982) p. 371Google Scholar.

3. Schwarzenberger, G., International Law as Applied by International Courts and Tribunals, vol. IV, ‘International Judicial Law’ (1986) p. 407Google Scholar.

4. Tunisia/Libya Continental Shelf (Application of Malta to Intervene) case, ICJ Rep. 1981 pp. 3, 16 (para. 27).

5. Libya/Malta Continental Shelf (Application of Italy to Intervene) case, ICJ Rep. 1984 pp. 3, 27 (para. 47).

6. See n.4 supra, at p. 6, para. 8; V Pleadings 474, 476, letters of 7 and 16 March 1981 from the Registrar to the Agent of Malta.

7. Thus: South West Africa case, ICJ Rep. 1961 p. 13; North Sea Continental Shelf case, ibid., 1968 p. 9; Fisheries Jurisdiction (Federal Republic of Germany v. Iceland) (Jurisdiction of the Court) case, ibid., 1973 pp. 49, 51 (para. 7). This applies to contentious cases, a rule originally applied by the Permanent Court of International Justice in advisory proceedings. Customs Union case, Ser. A/B, No. 41 (1931) p. 88Google Scholar.

8. Statement by the President (Elias) opening the hearing on the jurisdictional phase of Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua case on 8 October 1984, CR 84/12 at p. 12.

9. ILC Yearbook, 1950 Vol. II (A/CN.4/18, para. 80) pp. 114, 138. English version, mimec only at p. 62.

10. CR 84/6 (30 January 1984, p. 52). To be published in Libyan Arab Jamahariya/Malta Continental Shelf case, Pleadings.