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Second Session (1950)

Documents

The general and limited distribution documents of the International Law Commission (in the “A/CN.4” series) are issued, in all six official languages, as official documents of the United Nations. The Commission’s Summary Records are first made available in provisional form, in English and French only. They are subsequently edited and translated into the other official languages, and published in the Yearbook of the International Law Commission. Some of the Commission’s other documents are also later edited and published in the Yearbook, together with the Commission’s annual report to the General Assembly.

General Documents

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A/CN.4/15 + Corr.1 Report on the Question of International Criminal Jurisdiction by Ricardo J. Alfaro, Special Rapporteur
A/CN.4/16 + Add.1 Article 24 of the Statute of the International Law Commission — Working Paper by Manley O. Hudson
A/CN.4/17 Report on the Regime of the High Seas by J.P.A. François, Special Rapporteur
A/CN.4/18 Report on Arbitral Procedure by Georges Scelle, Special Rapporteur
A/CN.4/19 Replies from Governments to Questionnaires of the International Law Commission
A/CN.4/19 + Add.1–2

Replies from Governments to Questionnaires of the International Law Commission (Addenda 1 and 2 refer only to Part II: Replies from Governments concerning a Draft Code of Offences Against the Peace and Security of Mankind)

A/CN.4/19 Replies from Governments to Questionnaires of the International Law Commission (Law of Treaties)
A/CN.4/20 Report on the Question of International Criminal Jurisdiction by Emil Sandström, Special Rapporteur
A/CN.4/21 Provisional Agenda
A/CN.4/22 Formulation of the Nürnberg Principles — Report by J. Spiropoulos, Special Rapporteur
A/CN.4/23 Report on the Law of Treaties by J.L. Brierly, Special Rapporteur
A/CN.4/24 International and National Organizations Concerned with Questions of International Law — Revised Provisional List prepared by the Secretary-General for the Purpose of Distribution of Documents of the International Law Commission
A/CN.4/25 Draft Code of Offences Against the Peace and Security of Mankind — Report by J. Spiropoulos, Special Rapporteur
A/CN.4/26 Bibliography on the Regime of the High Seas
A/CN.4/27 Comments on Judge Hudson's Working Paper on Article 24 of the Statute of the International Law Commission
A/CN.4/28 Bibliography on International Criminal Law and International Criminal Court
A/CN.4/29 Bibliography on Arbitral Procedure
A/CN.4/30 Regime of the High Seas — Questions under Study by other Organs of the United Nations or by Specialized Agencies
A/CN.4/31 Bibliography on the Law of Treaties
A/CN.4/32 Memorandum on the Regime of the High Seas, by the Secretariat
A/CN.4/33 Nationality of Married Women — Letter from the Secretary-General to the Chariman of the International Law Commission
A/CN.4/34 Report of the International Law Commission on its Second Session, 5 June to 29 July 1950, Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifth session, Supplement No.12 (A/1316)
A/CN.4/35 Memorandum on Arbitral Procedure, prepared by the Secretariat
A/CN.4/36 Memorandum on the Soviet Doctrine and Practice with Respect to Arbitral Procedure, prepared by the Secretariat
A/CN.4/37 Memorandum on the Soviet Doctrine and Practice with Respect to the Law of Treaties, prepared by the Secretariat
A/CN.4/38 Memorandum on the Soviet Doctrine and Practice with Respect to the Regime of the High Seas, prepared by the Secretariat
A/CN.4/39 Memorandum Concerning a Draft Code of Offences Against the Peace and Security of Mankind, presented by the Secretariat

Limited Documents

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A/CN.4/L.1 Agenda for the 39th Meeting of the Commission — incorporated in A/CN.4/SR.39, footnote 1
A/CN.4/L.2 Text of the Nürnberg Principles Adopted by the International Law Commission
A/CN.4/R.1 Additional Crimes Proposed by Members of the International Law Commission for Inclusion in the Draft Code of Offences Against the Peace and Security of Mankind — incorporated in A/CN.4/SR.60, footnote 15 and A/CN.4/SR.61, footnote 4
A/CN.4/R.2 List of Crimes Proposed in the Replies from Governments for Inclusion on the Draft Code of Offences Against the Peace and Security of Mankind (see A/CN.4/19 and Add.1–2)
A/CN.4/R.3 Systematic List of the International Crimes Proposed by V. V. Pella in his Memorandum — incorporated in A/CN.4/SR.61, footnote 16
A/CN.4/R.4 Principles Proposed by G. Amado — incorporated in A/CN.4/SR.64, footnote 1
A/CN.4/R.5 Principles Submitted as a Basis of Discussion by J. M. Yepes — incorporated in A/CN.4/SR.64, footnote 4
A/CN.4/R.6 Text Proposed by the Drafting Committee — incorporated in A/CN.4/SR.72, footnote 3
A/CN.4/R.7/Rev.1 + Add.1/Rev.1–Add.7/Rev.1 Draft Report of the International Law Commission Covering its Second Session

Summary Records

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A/CN.4/SR.39 Summary record of the 39th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.40 Summary record of the 40th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.41 Summary record of the 41st meeting
A/CN.4/SR.42 Summary record of the 42nd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.43 Summary record of the 43rd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.44 Summary record of the 44th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.45 Summary record of the 45th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.46 Summary record of the 46th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.47 Summary record of the 47th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.48 Summary record of the 48th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.49 Summary record of the 49th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.50 Summary record of the 50th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.51 Summary record of the 51st meeting
A/CN.4/SR.52 Summary record of the 52nd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.53 Summary record of the 53rd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.54 Summary record of the 54th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.55 Summary record of the 55th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.56 Summary record of the 56th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.57 Summary record of the 57th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.58 Summary record of the 58th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.59 Summary record of the 59th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.60 Summary record of the 60th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.61 Summary record of the 61st meeting
A/CN.4/SR.62 Summary record of the 62nd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.63 Summary record of the 63rd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.64 Summary record of the 64th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.65 Summary record of the 65th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.66 Summary record of the 66th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.67 Summary record of the 67th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.68 Summary record of the 68th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.69 Summary record of the 69th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.70 Summary record of the 70th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.71 Summary record of the 71st meeting
A/CN.4/SR.72 Summary record of the 72nd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.73 Summary record of the 73rd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.74 Summary record of the 74th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.75 Summary record of the 75th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.76 Summary record of the 76th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.77 Summary record of the 77th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.78 Summary record of the 78th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.79 Summary record of the 79th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.80 Summary record of the 80th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.81 Summary record of the 81st meeting

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  • In some cases, documents have deliberately been excluded from this website, including draft documents such as the draft report of the International Law Commission, which serves as the basis for the Commission adoption of its annual report, and which, accordingly, is superceded as soon as the final version is adopted;
  • In connection with more recent documentation (post-1995), where a Yearbook of the International Law Commission volume does not yet exist, links are provided to the version available on the United Nations Optical Disk System, i.e. the version which the Commission itself considered (and not the final edited version to be included in a Yearbook); in some cases such documents (or particular language versions thereof) are not available on that System, for technical reasons.
  • Unless otherwise indicated, summary records are available in English and French only. Additional language versions are made available as and when the respective volumes of the Yearbook are published.
  • In the case of documents issued in mimeograph format in earlier years, those that were subsequently reproduced in the Yearbook of the International Law Commission have been made available. Where hard copies of the individual documents not in the Yearbook still exist, attempts have been made to also have those digitized and placed on this site to provide as complete a collection as possible;
  • Up until 1955 documents were issued in the original language of submission, and the other linguistic versions were not always produced, i.e. some documents were only issued in English or in French or in Spanish;