Judicial Settlement of International Disputes : : Jurisdiction Justiciability and Judicial Law-Making of the Contemporary International Court / / Edward McWhinney.

• VerfasserIn: McWhinney, Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Dordrecht, The Netherlands : : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,, [1991]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (209 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: Historical Contradictions in Contemporary State Attitudes to the International Court -- Chapter I. Contemporary Conceptions of the Rôle of International Judicial Settlement -- 1. Changing national positions on third party, (and especially Court-based) disputes-settlement -- 2. Ethnocentricity of "classical" international law institutions and processes like judicial settlement -- 3. The influence of evolving national constitutional institutions and processes upon international judicial settlement -- Chapter II. The Contemporary International Judicial Process. Law and Logic, and the "Law"/"Politics" Dichotomy -- 1. Judicial Positivism and the limits of legal logic -- 2. Competing theories of judicial interpretation. The judicial activism/judicial self-restraint continuum -- 3. Preliminary and Merits jurisdiction -- 4. Advisory Opinion jurisdiction -- 5. Preliminary and Merits jurisdiction revisited -- 6. The "law"/"politics" dichotomy, and the "political questions" exception to jurisdiction -- 7. The Rules of Procedure, and the creative rôle of Court practice in their development -- Chapter III. The Jurisdiction of the Full Court of the International Court, and the Special Chambers Gloss to Jurisdiction -- 1. Compulsory jurisdiction under Article 36(2) of the Court Statute -- 2. On "regionalism", and on an alleged "regional" bias in the Court's decisions -- 3. The contemporary, Special Chambers gloss to Court jurisdiction -- Chapter IV. The Contemporary International Court as Independent, and as Representative Tribunal -- 1. Judicial independence, and judicial "interest" -- 2. Judicial representation: the nomination system for the International Court.

3. Elections to the International Court: changing trends in "regional" representation on the Court -- 4. "Regional" idiosyncrasies or gaps in the representative character of the International Court today -- 5. On "politics" in the Court elections, and current, alleged "regional" biases in Court representation -- Chapter V. A Contemporary, Operational Approach to Court Jurisdiction and Justiciability -- 1. The new popularity of the International Court -- 2. The "internationalising" of the institution of judicial settlement -- 3. The "internationalising" of the International Court and its judges -- 4. The International Court as sui generis institution -- 5. The Court and "political questions" -- 6. Operational indices as to justiciability in contemporary international law problem-situations -- a. The issue of timing -- b. The issue of fact-finding -- c. "Judge and Company": the issue of a constitutional separation-of-powers -- 7. The new constitutional legitimacy of the International Court and of judicial law-making -- Conclusion: New Agenda, and New Client-States for the International Court -- Table of Principal Cases -- Appendices: Documents -- A. Covenant of the League of Nations. (1920), (Articles 12-15, Article 19) -- B. Charter of the United Nations. (1945), (Chapter XIV. Articles 92-96) -- C. Statute of the International Court of Justice -- D. U.N. General Assembly Resolution 44/23, 9 January 1990 ("United Nations Decade of International Law") -- Index.