Search results for "International Court of Justice"

Separate and dissenting opinions: their role in the practice of the ICJ

2019

The purpose of the thesis is to draw attention to the significance of the individual opinions in the practice of the International Court of Justice. The author aims to define the actual role of individual opinions in the system of work of the International Court of Justice by means of analyses of individual opinions appended to the Court’s judgements, rendered under contentious and advisory jurisdiction of the Court. In this thesis possible solutions proposed of how the existence of individual opinions should be regulated in the basic documents of the International Court of Justice.

Le rôle de la pratique ultérieure des parties dans l'interprétation des arrêts de la Cour internationale de justice à la lumière de l'arrêt de la Cou…

2014

The paper analyses the judgment of the International Court of Justice of November 11, 2013, in which the Court establishes several factors relevant for the interpretation of its judgments. After illustrating the importance of this judgement, the paper criticizes the Court's refrain from any examination of subsequent practice of the Parties in the application of its judgments, as a means of interpretation. Cette contribution analyse l'arrêt de la Cour internationale de justice du 11 novembre 2013, dans lequel la Cour énonce plusieurs éléments pertinents aux fins de l'interprétation de ses sentences. Après avoir mis en lumière l'importance de cet arrêt, une critique est adressée à l'approche …

Some Remarks on the Relationship between Secession and General International Law in the Light of the ICJ’s Kosovo Advisory Opinion

2012

How is it possible to regard something that is not prohibited, as illegal? What are the resulting consequences of fact and law? This chapter suggests that a reasonable way to reconcile these two assertions is to admit that they refer to two profiles of the phenomenon in question that must be kept separate. Independence is not prohibited, but not all means to reach it are allowed under general international law. To render this concept, the author submits the idea of a normative "due process" seen as a set of rules giving no legal entitlement to statehood nor determining the creation of a State, but forming a normative course through which factual processes should be legally channelled. The c…

The ICJ's Kosovo Advisory Opinion as an Exercise in Pre-Understanding

2011

Le misure cautelari nei giudizi interstatali sui diritti umani: la prassi recente della Corte internazionale di giustizia e della Corte europea dei d…

2021

In the last few years there has been a significant quantitative increase in requesting interim measures of protection in inter-State cases concerning human rights, namely in inter-State proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and in proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) grounded on the compromissory clauses included in human rights treaties. In these cases, the ultimate beneficiaries of the interim protection are individuals although, formally, proceedings focus on States’ rights and duties (concerning the protection of human rights). The present paper analyses the recent case-law of the said courts from a double perspective: on the one hand, with…