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.