Legal Visions of the 21st Century.

• Author: Anghie, Antony.
• TeilnehmendeR: Sturgess, Garry.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2004.; ©1998.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (809 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- Curriculum Vitae of Judge Christopher Weeramantry -- I. GREETINGS -- Lord Denning -- Judge Stephen Schwebel, President, International Court of Justice -- Sir Gerard Brennan, Chief Justice, High Court of Australia -- G.P.S. de Silva, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Sri Lanka -- II. ESSAYS -- 1. Jurisprudence and Comparative Law -- The Coming Global Civilization: Neo-Liberal or Humanist? -- Jurisculture in the 21st Century -- Third World Jurisprudence for the Twenty-First Century -- Roman-Dutch Law in South Africa at the End of the Century - and Thereafter -- Legal Visions - South Africa in the 21st Century -- 2. Human Rights and Bioethics -- Individual Human Rights in the African Context -- Human Rights Theory and "Freedom Culture" in Eastern Asia -- Abortion Laws: Medicalisation, Autonomy and Equality -- Citizenship in a Borderless World -- Cross-Cultural Dimensions of Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century -- Personal Self-Determination: The Next Wave in Constructing Identity -- Autonomy, Paternalism and Discrimination: The Darker Side of Euthanasia -- The Global Refugee Problem in the 21st Century and the Emerging Security Paradigm: A Disturbing Trend -- 3. Judging and the Judiciary -- The Continuing Crisis -- Independence of the Judiciary and Public Accountability -- The Growing Rapprochement Between International Law and National Law -- The Need for Judicial Education in a 21st Century Democracy -- 4. International Law -- Some Remarks on the Constituent Element(s) of General (or So-called Customary) International Law -- The Future of International Telecommunications Law -- Water Management in the 21st Century -- Judicial Settlement of International Disputes: One Forum or Many?.

International Administrative Law in the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Appraisal and a Look into the Crystal Ball -- Broader Perspectives in International Law -- Some Reflections Erga Omnes -- The Friendly Relations Declaration and the International Court of Justice -- Environment and Trade: Competing Paradigms in International Law -- 5. The International Court of Justice -- International Law and the Reform of the International Court of Justice -- Pleadings and the Pursuit of International Law: Nuclear Tests II (New Zealand v. France) -- Obligations of Third States in the Face of Illegality - Ruminations Inspired by the Weeramantry Dissent in the Case Concerning East Timor -- Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Narrative of Affirmative Appreciation and Judge Weeramantry's Grotian Quest -- A Small Country Applicant - The Immense Task of Proceeding before the International Court of Justice -- III. APPRECIATIONS -- Records of Three Ceremonial Sittings of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka Held in Honour of Judge Christopher Gregory Weeramantry -- 1. Welcome to the Honourable Christopher Gregory Weeramantry Ceremonial Court, Hultsdorp, December 17, 1967 -- 2. Farewell to the Honourable Christopher Gregory Weeramantry, Puisne Justice, May, 1972 -- 3. Ceremonial Sitting of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka Held in Honour of Judge Christopher Gregory Weeramantry, Judge-elect of the International Court of Justice, January, 1991 -- Dean C.R. Williams, Minute of Appreciation - Professor C.G. Weeramantry, Faculty Board Agenda, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Meeting No. 1/91 -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.