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Main Author: Higgins, Rosalyn
Other title:Themes & theories : selected essays, speeches, and writings in international law.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
International law.
Table of Contents:
  • V. 1.: PART 1 : INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY: Policy considerations and the international judicial process
  • Policy and impartiality : the uneasy relationship in international law
  • The United Nations and lawmaking : the political organs
  • Conceptual thinking about the individual in international law
  • The identity of international law
  • Fundamentals of international law
  • The concept of 'the state' : variable geometry and dualist perceptions
  • Our 'virtuous trilogy'
  • PART 2 : UNITED NATIONS LAW: The development of international law by the political organs of the United Nations
  • United Nations peace-keeping : political and financial problems
  • The place of international law in the settlement of disputes by the Security Council
  • The advisory opinion on Namibia : which UN resolutions are binding under Article 25 of the Charter?
  • The new United Nations : appearance and reality
  • The new United Nations and former Yugoslavia
  • The UN Security Council and the individual state
  • Some thoughts on the evolving relationship between the Security Council and NATO
  • PART 3 : USE OF FORCE: Intervention and international law
  • Second-generation peacekeeping
  • Peace and security : achievements and failures
  • The new challenges and the role of the International Court of Justice
  • PART 4 : STATE AND DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES: Recent developments in the law of sovereign immunity in the United Kingdom
  • The death throes of absolute immunity : the government of Uganda before the English courts
  • Execution of state property : United Kingdom practice
  • Certain unresolved aspects of the law of state immunity
  • The abuse of diplomatic privileges and immunities : recent United Kingdom experience
  • Execution of state property in English law
  • After Pinochet : developments on head of state and ministerial immunities
  • PART 5 : HUMAN RIGHTS: The Soblen case
  • The right in international law of an individual to enter, stay in, and leave a country
  • Derogations under human rights treaties
  • Encouraging human rights
  • The United Nations : still a force for peace
  • Liberty of movement within the territory of a state : the contribution of the Committee on Human Rights
  • The relationship between international law and regional human rights norms and domestic law
  • Minority rights : discrepancies and divergencies between the International Covenant and the Council of Europe system
  • Foreword in The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and United Kingdom law
  • Ten years on the UN Human Rights Committee : some thoughts upon parting
  • Introduction from Human Rights as General Norms and a State's Right to Opt Out : reservations and objections to human rights conventions
  • Interim measures for the protection of human rights
  • The role of domestic courts in the enforcement of international human rights : the United Kingdom
  • The International Court of Justice and human rights
  • The continuing universality of the Universal Declaration
  • Extradition, the right to life, and the prohibition against cruel and inhuman punishment and treatment : similarities and differences under the ECHR and the ICCPR
  • Dispersal and coalescence in international human rights law.
  • V. 2.: PART 6 : INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM LAW: Legal preconditions of foreign investment
  • Abandonment of energy sites and structures : relevant international law
  • Natural resources in the case law of the International Court
  • PART 7 : GENERAL: Legal problems arising from the dissolution of the Mali Federation
  • The International Court and south west Africa : the implications of the judgment
  • International law and the reasonable need of governments to govern
  • The legal bases of jurisdiction
  • United Kingdom : from the effect of treaties in domestic law
  • Postmodern tribalism and the right to secession
  • Report for Institut de Droit International : the legal consequences for member states of the non-fulfilment [sic] by international organizations of their obligations toward third parties
  • Some observations on the inter-temporal rule in international law
  • Time and the law : international perspectives on an old problem
  • Remedies and the International Court of Justice : an introduction
  • International law in a changing international system
  • The responsibility of states members for the defaults of international organizations : continuing the dialogue
  • Dualism in the face of a changing legal culture
  • The ICJ, the ECJ, and the integrity of international law
  • Self-determination and secession
  • PART 8 : TRIBUTES TO COLLEAGUES: Myres Smith McDougal (1906-1998)
  • Foreword (in honour Professor D. W. Greig)
  • Words of personal appreciation to Erica-Irene Daes
  • Fleischhauer leaves the Court
  • On Vojin Dimitrijevic
  • In memoriam Oscar Schachter : 1915-2003
  • Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings 1913-2004
  • The benign first mate : (in honour of Florentino Feliciano)-- Final remarks : (in honour of Professor Philip Allott)
  • National courts and the International Court of Justice
  • Contribution to : individual rights and international justice, Liber Fausto Pocar
  • Speech at the Lauterpacht Centre 25th anniversary celebrations : also marking the 80th birthday of the Centre's founder, Sir Eli Lauterpacht.
  • PART 9 : THE JUDICIAL YEARS: ACADEMIC WRITING: A comment on the current health of advisory opinions
  • The International Court of Justice and Africa
  • Respecting sovereign states and running a tight courtroom
  • Issues of state responsibility before the International Court of Justice
  • The International Court of Justice : selected issues of state responsibility
  • Alternative perspectives on the independence of international courts : remarks
  • Reflections from the International Court
  • JUDICIAL WORK: Dissenting opinion of Judge Higgins : legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons : advisory opinion
  • Separate opinion of Judge Higgins : oil platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America)
  • Separate opinion of Judge Higgins : land and maritime boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v. Nigeria)
  • Separate opinion of Judge Higgins : oil platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America)
  • Separate opinion of Judge Higgins : legality of use of force (Yugoslavia v. Belgium) (Yugoslavia v. Canada) (Yugoslavia v. France) (Yugoslavia v. Germany) (Yugoslavia v. Italy) (Yugoslavia v. Netherlands) (Yugoslavia v. Portugal) (Yugoslavia v. Spain) (Yugoslavia v. United Kingdom) (Yugloslavia v. United States of America) : provisional measures order of 2 June 1999
  • Declaration of Judge Higgins : Kasikili/Sedudu Island (Botswana/Namibia)
  • Declaration of Judge Higgins : maritime delimitation and territorial questions between Qatar and Bahrain (Qatar v. Bahrain)
  • Joint separate opinion of Judges Higgins, Kooijmans, and Buergenthal : arrest warrant of 11 April 2000 (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Belgium)
  • Separate opinion of Judge Higgins : oil platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America)
  • Separate opinion of Judge Higgins : legal consequences of the construction of a wall in the occupied Palestine territory
  • International Court of Justice : joint declaration of Vice-President Ranjeva, Judges Guillaume, Higgins, Kooijmans, Al-Khasawneh, Buergenthal, and Elaraby
  • Separate opinion of Judge Higgins
  • Joint separate opinion by Judges Higgins, Kooijmans, Elaraby, Owada, and Simma : armed activities on the Territory of the Congo (new application : 2002) (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Rwanda)
  • PART 10 : THE YEARS AS PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE: A Babel of judicial voices? : ruminations from the Bench
  • A conversation with Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice
  • 'A just world under law' (plenary address at the centennial meeting of the American Soriety [sic] of International Law)
  • Inaugural address at the opening ceremony of the Asian Society of International Law
  • The International Court of Justice and private international law : thoughts
  • The 1907 Hague Peace Conference as a milestone in the development of international law
  • 'The rule of law : some skeptical thoughts'
  • The changing position of domestic courts in the international legal order
  • Keynote address given at the 60th anniversary of the International Law Commission
  • Remedies in the International Court of Justice
  • Speech to the 61st session of the General Assembly
  • The judicial determination of relevant facts : speech to the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly, 2 November 2007
  • Speech to the 62nd session of the General Assembly
  • Jurisdiction at the International Court of Justice : (speech to the Sixth Committee (Legal) of the General Assembly, 31 October 2008)
  • Speech to the 63rd session of the General Assembly (30 October 2008)

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