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Remarks by Peter Weiss

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Peter Weiss
Peter Weiss*
Affiliation:
Center for Constitutional Rights; Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy; International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms and counsel for Malaysia in this case
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Testing the Effectiveness of the International Court of Justice: The Nuclear Weapons Case
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 91 , 1997 , pp. 6 - 9
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1997

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References

1 In principle, the right not arbitrarily to be deprived of one’s life applies also in hostilities.” Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, 35 I.L.M. 809, 820, para. 25 (Advisory Opinion of July 8,1996).

2 Id, para. 26.

3 ld. at 821, para. 30.

4 ld. at 822, para. 42.

5 Id. at 823, para. 47.

6 Id. at 824-26, paras. 58-63.

7 Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to para. 2 of Security Council Resolution 808 (1993).

8 Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, 35 I.L.M. at 829, para. 89.

9 Id. para. 94.

10 Id. at 830, para. 97.

11 Id. at 830-32, paras. 98ff, 105(F).

12 Id. at 1343,1346, para. 11 (declaration of President Bedjaoui).

13 Id. at 831, para. 105(F).

14 Id. at 830, para. 97.

15 The Lotas Case (Fr. v. Turk.), 1927 P.C.I.J. (ser. A) No. 10 (Sep. 7) (a relic of the age of positivism, standing for the proposition that a state is permitted to do whatever is not expressly forbidden by a rule of international law to which it has assented).

16 Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, 35 I.L.M. at 840-42 (dissenting opinion of Vice-President Schwebel).

17 Available from the Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy, 666 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.