Christian Walter

World Court Digest

The first three volumes of the World Court Digest cover the periods 1986 to 1990, 1991 to 1995 and 1996 to 2000. We are happy to issue the fourth volume, covering the period from 2001 to 2005. We hope that this new Digest will be welcome to all those interested in the case law of the International Court of Justice. We are, of course, aware that nowadays the decisions of the Court are easily accessible through electronic data systems. However, there is no systematic analysis available in the form presented by the World Court Digest. Therefore, the Digest will be useful for those who wish to find the most recent position of the Court on a particular issue of international law. As the three previous volumes, also this fourth volume will be made available through electronic data on the homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. The first five years of the new century have been a busy period for the Court due to its continuing heavy caseload. The cases concerned a variety of legal issues reaching from the use of force and self-defence to questions of land and maritime boundary delimitation, immunity, consular matters, revision of judgments and the effect of provisional measures. The parties to the cases were States from all parts of the world demonstrating the general acceptance of the Court.

International Democracy Documents

International Democracy Documents is the first comprehensive compilation on democracy at the international level. It covers the most important international documents relating to democracy, while at the same time providing a focused approach.

Inter-Parliamentary Union

As decided by the IPU governing bodies, a Special gender partnership session will be held on the occasion of the 127 IPU Assembly in Québec City on the theme of Gender-sensitive Parliaments (see the overview attached). The Special session will take place in three sittings on 23, 25 and 26 October 2012. It will conclude with the adoption of an outcome document: a Plan of Action for Gender-sensitive Parliaments. The Plan will then be submitted for adoption by the Assembly on 26 October.

Institutionalised international law

1 Concept and Theory of International Organisations 2 History of International Organisations 3 International Organisations within the Constitution of the International Community 4 Treaty Basis, Creation, Extinction, and Succession 5 Legal Personality 6 The Doctrine of Powers 7 Responsibility and Liability 8 Membership 9 Organs and Decision Making 10 Finance and Personnel 11 Peace and Security 12 The Institutional Organisation of International Human Rights Protection 13 Economy and Development 14 Environment 15 Perspectives

Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (2001)

Text adopted by the Commission at its fifty-third session, in 2001, and submitted to the General Assembly as a part of the Commission’s report covering the work of that session. The report, which also contains commentaries on the draft articles, appears in Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 2001, vol. II (Part Two). Text reproduced as it appears in the annex to General Assembly resolution 56/83 of 12 December 2001, and corrected by document A/56/49(Vol. I)/Corr.4.

Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation (23.9.1971)

THE STATES PARTIES TO THIS CONVENTION, CONSIDERING that unlawful acts against the safety of civil aviation jeopardize the safety of persons and property, seriously affect the operation of air services, and undermine the confidence of the peoples of the world in the safety of civil aviation; CONSIDERING that the occurrence of such acts is a matter of grave concern; CONSIDERING that, for the purpose of deterring such acts, there is an urgent need to provide appropriate measures for punishment of offenders; HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) (12.12.1977)

Article 1 General principles and scope of application ............................. 240 Article 2 Definitions ................................................................................. 240 Article 3 Beginning and end of application ............................................. 241 Article 4 Legal status of the Parties to the conflict................................... 241 Article 5 Appointment of Protecting Powers and of their substitute ...... 241 Article 6 Qualified persons....................................................................... 242 Article 7 Meetings ..................................................................................... 243

The International Court of Justice

The following information is communicated to the Press by the Registry of the International Court of Justice: The public hearings held by the Court on the preliminary objection fi led by the United States of America in the above case, which opened on Monday 16 September 1996, were concluded on Tuesday 24 September 1996. * During the first round of oral arguments, held between 16 and 20 September, statements were made: on behalf of the United States of America, by Mr. Michael J. Matheson, Agent of the United States of America; and by Commander Ronald D. Neubauer (who read on behalf of Dr. John H. McNeill), Professor Andreas F. Lowenfeld, Mr. John R. Crook, Dr. Sean Murphy and Mr. Jack Chorowsky, Counsel and Advocates; on behalf of the Islarnic Republic of Iran, by Mr. M. H. Zahedin-Labbaf, Agent of the Islamic Republic of Iran; and by Dr. S. M. Zeinoddin, Professor James R. Crawford, Professor Luigi Condorelli and Mr. Rodman R. Bundy, Counsel and Advocates. Vice-President Schwebel and Judge ~ Rigaux each put a question to the Agents ofboth Parties and Judge Higgin s put a question to the Agent of the United States of America.