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Judge Peter Tomka

Judge Peter Tomka
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International Court of Justice

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Courts and Tribunals
International Court of Justice
The Special Agreement as a Way of Submitting Disputes to the International Court of Justice
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Courts and Tribunals
International Court of Justice
The Special Agreement as a Way of Submitting Disputes to the International Court of Justice
A. Legal Instruments
B. Jurisprudence

International Court of Justice, Corfu Channel (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland v. Albania), Special Agreement concluded on March 25th, 1948.

International Court of Justice, Corfu Channel case, Judgment of 9 April 1949, I.C.J. Reports 1949, p. 4.

International Court of Justice, Colombian-Peruvian asylum case, Judgment of 20 November 1950, I.C. J. Reports 1950, p. 266.

International Court of Justice,  Case of the monetary gold removed from Rome in 1943 (Preliminary Question), Judgment of 15 June 1954, I.C.J. Reports 1954, p. 19.

International Court of Justice, Case concerning the Arbitral Award Made by the King of Spain on 23 December 1906, Judgment of 18 November 1960, I.C.J. Reports 1960, p. 192.

International Court of Justice, North Sea Continental Shelf, Judgment of 20 February 1969, I.C.J. Reports 1969, p. 3.

International Court of Justice, Continental Shelf (Tunisia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya), Judgment of 24 February 1982, I.C.J. Reports 1982, p. 18.

International Court of Justice, Application for Revision and Interpretation of the Judgment of 24 February 1982 in the Case concerning the Continental Shelf (Tunisia / Libyan Arab Jamahiriya).

International Court of Justice, Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area, Judgment of 12 October 1984, I.C.J. Reports 1984, p. 246.

International Court of Justice, Continental Shelf (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya / Malta), Judgment of 3 June 1985, I.C.J. Reports 1985, p. 13.

International Court of Justice, Frontier Dispute, Judgment of 22 December 1986, I.C.J. Reports 1986, p. 554.

International Court of Justice, Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions between Qatar and Bahrain, Jurisdiction and Admissibility, Judgment of 1 July 1994, I.C.J. Reports 1994, p. 112.

International Court of Justice, Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia), Judgment of 25 September 1997, I.C.J. Reports 1997, p. 7.

International Court of Justice, Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso Niger), Judgment of 16 April 2013, I.C.J. Reports 2013, p. 44.

Constitutional Court of Italy, Incidental Judgment of Constitutional Legitimacy, Judgment 238/2014 (available only in Italian).

C. Documents
D. Doctrine

R. Kolb, The International Court of Justice, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2013.

P. Tomka, “The Special Agreement,” in N. Ando et al. (eds.), Liber Amicorum Judge Shigeru Oda, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2002, p. 553.

C. Tomuschat, “Article 36,” in Zimmermann et al. (ed.), The International Court of Justice: a commentary, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 212.