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President Stephen Schwebel

Judge Stephen M. Schwebel
Former President
International Court of Justice

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Publications of President Stephen Schwebel
Books
The Secretary-General of the United Nations: His Political Powers and Practice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952).
The Effectiveness of International Decisions (as editor) (Leiden: Sijthoff, 1971).
International Arbitration: Three Salient Problems (Cambridge: Grotius Publications Limited, 1987).
Justice in International Law:  Selected Writings of Judge Stephen M. Schwebel (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Other Publications
“Impasse on the Atom”, The Harvard Advocate, Volume CXXX, April 1947.
Testimony on Ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty, Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-First Congress, First Session (1949).
Testimony on Revision of the United Nations Charter, Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-First Congress, Second Session (1950).
“The Origins and Development of Article 99 of the Charter”, British Year Book of International Law, 1951.
“The International Character of the Secretariat of the United Nations”, British Year Book of International Law, 1953.
“Secretary-General and Secretariat”, Charter Review Conference (Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, New York: 1955).
“A United Nations 'Guard' and a United Nations 'Legion”', a staff paper prepared for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1957 (printed in Frye, A United Nations Peace Force, 1957).
Report of the Committee on Nationalization of Property of the American Branch of the International Law Association, Proceedings and Committee Reports, 1957-1958.
“Trygve Lie”, article in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1959.
“International Protection of Contractual Arrangements”, Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, 1959.
“The Alsing Case”, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 2, April 1959.
Testimony on the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session (19).
“Financial Problems of the United Nations”, Proceedings and Committee Reports of the American Branch of the International Law Association, 1961-1962.
“Written Statement Submitted by the Government of the United States of America”, I.C.J. Pleadings, Certain Expenses of the United Nations, 1962.
“The Story of the UN's Declaration on Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources”, American Bar Association Journal, May 1963.
“The United Nations and the Challenge of a Changing International Law”, Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, 1963.
“Article 19 of the Charter of the United Nations: Memorandum of Law”, reprinted in American Journal of International Law, Volume 58, Number 3, July 1964.
“Speculations on Specific Performance of a Contract between a State and Foreign National”, 1964, Southwestern Legal Foundation, The Rights and Duties of Private Investors Abroad, 1965.
“Some Little Known Cases on Concessions” (with J. Gillis Wetter), British Year Book of International Law, 1964.
“Arbitration and the Exhaustion of Local Remedies”, (with J. Gillis Wetter), American Journal of International Law, Volume 60, Number 3, July 1966.
“Government Legal Advising in the Field of Foreign Affairs”, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, African Conference Proceedings, 1967.
“Law Making in the United Nations”, Australian National University Federal Law Review, Volume 4, Number 1, 1970.
“What Weight to Conquest?”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 64, Number 2, April 1970.
“International Law in the Middle East”, The New York Times, June 20, 1970.
“The United States Assaults the ILO”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 65, Number 1, January 1971.
Testimony on Limiting U.S. Contributions to the United Nations, Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements, Committee an Foreign Affairs, United States House of Representatives, Ninety-Second Congress, First Session, 1971.
“Admitting China to the UN: What is US Strategy?”, The Washington Post, August 23, 1971.
“Peking's Effect on the UN: Some Speculations”, The Washington Post, August 29, 1971.
“Selecting a New Secretary-General for the UN”, The Washington Post, September 13, 1971.
“What Should the UN Do About the Mini-States?”, The Washington Post, September 26, 1971.
“United States Nears Front Ranks of Treaty-Breakers”, The Washington Post, October 19, 1971.
“A Chrome-Plated Treaty Violation”, The Washington Post, November 19, 1971.
“A Solution for Sinai”, The New York Times, November 22, 1971.
“The Choice of the New UN Secretary-General”, The Washington Post, December 23, 1971.
“Is the 'Recognition' of Governments Obsolete?”, The Washington Post, February 23, 1972.
“Congress v. International Law”, The Washington Post, May 25, 1972.
“Foreign Policy and the Government Legal Adviser”, Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law, Volume 2, Number 2, 1972.
“The Brezhnev Doctrine Repealed and Peaceful Co-Existence Enacted”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 66, Number 5, October 1972.
“The Mobilization of Shame”, VISTA, February 1972.
“Waiting for Jarring”, VISTA, July-August 1972.
“The American Assembly Looks at the UN”, VISTA, September/October 1972.
“What To Do Now in the Middle East”, Proceedings and Committee Reports of the American Branch of the International Law Association, 1971-1972.
“On Preventing the Export of Terrorism”, VISTA, November 1972.
“Who Shall Control the Seas, and for What Purposes?”, The Washington Post, November 8, 1972.
“The Double Standard on Racism in Africa”, The Louisville Courier-Journal & Times, December 10, 1972.
“Aggression, Intervention and Self-Defense in Modern International Law”, lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law, Receuil des Cours, Volume II, 1972.
“Mini-States and a More Effective United Nations”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 67, Number 1, January 1973.
“Chile, Confiscation and the Law”, The Washington Post, February 3, 1973.
“A Takeover of Kuwait?”, The Washington Post, June 26, 1973.
Testimony on Strengthening the International Court of Justice, Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-Third Congress, First Session (1973).
“A Mixed Review for International Law”, VISTA, October 1973.
“Defining Aggression”, SAIS (School of Advanced International Studies), Review, Fall, 1973.
“Entente Cordiale: Divergence and Accommodation”, Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, 1974.
“Comments”, in Robert R. Bowie, Suez 1956: International Crisis and the Role of Law (Oxford University Press, 1974).
“The Effect of Resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly on Customary International Law”, Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, 1979.
“First Report on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses”, Yearbook of the International Law Commission 1979, Volume II, Part One.
“The Thirty-First Session of the International Law Commission”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 73, Number 4, October 1979.
“Confrontation, Consensus and Codification in International Law”, Proceedings and Committee Reports of the American Branch of the International Law Association, 1979-1980.
“Second Report on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses”, Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1980, Volume II, Part One.
“Responses to Crises in Iran and Afghanistan”, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, 1980.
“The ICJ Decisions and Other Public International Law Issues”, The Iran Crisis and International Law, Proceedings of the John Bassett Moore Society of International Law, University of Virginia, 1980.
“The Thirty-Second Session of the International Law Commission”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 74, Number 4, October 1980.
Oral Statements by Mr. Schwebel, ICJ Pleadings, Interpretation of the Agreement of 25 March 1951 between the WHO and Egypt, 1981, pp. 230, 290.
“United Nations Secretary-General”, in Bernhardt (ed.) Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Volume 5, 1981.
“The Compliance Process and the Future of International Law”, Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, 1981.
“Richard R. Baxter”, Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, 1981, p. 225.
Argument of Mr. Schwebel, ICJ Pleadings, United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran, 1982, p. 274.
“Dedication: Judge Richard R. Baxter”, American University Law Review, Volume 31, Number 4, 1982.
“Third Report on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses”, Yearbook of the International Law Commission 1982, Volume II, Part One.
“New Life for the World Court”, Virginia Journal of International Law, Volume 23, Number 3, 1983.
“The Unused Potential of the International Court of Justice”, Nigerian Forum, June, 1983.
“Widening the Advisory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice Without Amending Its Statute”, Catholic University Law Review, Volume 33, Number 2, 1984.
“Authorizing the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Request Advisory Opinions of the International Court of Justice”, Essays in Honour of Judge Manfred Lachs, 1984.
“Authorizing the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Request Advisory Opinions of the International Court of Justice”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 78, Number 4, 1984.
“Preface”, Leo Gross, Essays on International Law and Organization, 1984.
“Address”, International Law and the Grotian Heritage, T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague, 1985.
“The Legal Effect of Resolutions and Codes of Conduct of the United Nations”, Forum Internationale, October 1985.
“Reflections on the Role of the International Court of Justice”, Washington Law Review (Seattle, 1986).
“United Nations Resolutions, Recent Arbitral Awards and Customary International Law”, Realism in Law Making: Festschrift for Willem Riphagen, 1986.
“Philip C. Jessup”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 80, Number 4, 1986.
“Same Aspects of International Law in Arbitration between States and Aliens”, Southwestern Legal Foundation, Symposium, Private Investors Abroad: Problems and Solutions, 1986.
“The Docket of the World Court”, Harvard Law Record, November 1986.
“Public Policy and Arbitral Procedure” (with Susan Lahne), International Council for Commercial Arbitration, Congress Series No. 3, 1986.
“On Whether the Breach by a State of a Contract with an Alien is a Breach of International Law”, International Law at the Time of its Codification: Essays in Honour of Roberto Ago, 1987.
Ad Hoc Chambers of the International Court of Justice”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 81, No. 4, 1987.
“Preliminary Rulings by the International Court of Justice at the Instance of National Courts”, Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Internationaal Recht, No. 95, October 1987.
“Preliminary Rulings by the International Court of Justice at the Instance of National Courts”, Virginia Journal of International Law, Volume 28, Number 2, 1988.
“Chambers of the International Court of Justice Formed for Particular Cases”, International Law at a Time of Perplexity: Essays in Honour of Shabtai Rosenne, 1989.
“Arbitration and the Exhaustion of Local Remedies Revisited”, The International Lawyer, Volume 23, Number 4, 1989.
“Relations between the International Court of Justice and the United Nations”, Merkouris, Utrecht, 1989, Number 4.
“Herbert W. Briggs, 1900-1990”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 84, Number 2, 1990.
“The Prospects for International Arbitration: Inter-State Disputes”. A.H.A. Soons, ed., International Arbitration: Past and Prospects (1990).
“The Docket and Decision-making Process of the International Court of Justice”, Suffolk Transnational Law Journal, Volume XIII, No. 2, Spring, 1990.
Commentary on “Social Discipline and the Multinational Enterprise” and “Security of Investment Abroad”, International Bar Association, Section on Energy & Natural Resources Law, Energy Law '90 (1991).
“Relations between the International Court of Justice and the United Nations”, Prosper Weil et al., eds., Le Droit International au Service de la Paix, de la Justice et du Développement, Mélanges Michel Virally (1991).
“Remarks on the Role of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. State Department”, European Journal of International Law, Volume 2, Number 1, 1991.
“Indirect Aggression in the International Court”, Address to the USSR-USA Conference of Scholars of the American Society of International Law and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, published in Damrosch & Scheffer (eds.), International Law and the New World Order (1991).
“Three Cases of Fact-Finding by the International Court of Justice”, Richard B. Lillich, ed., Fact-Finding before International Tribunals (1991).
“Preventing Delay or Disruption of Arbitration: Practice of Public International Law Tribunals”, International Council for Commercial Arbitration, Congress Series, No. 5, 1991.
“F.A. Mann, 1907-1991”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 86, No. 1, 1992.
“Human Rights in the World Court”, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Winter 1992).
“Human Rights in the World Court”, R.S. Pathak and R.P. Dhokalia, eds., International Law in Transition, Essays in Memory of Judge Nagendra Singh (1992).
“Role of the International Court of Justice in a Changing United Nations Collective Security Context”, Contemporary International Law Issues; Sharing Pan­European and American Perspectives, 1992.
“Was the Capacity to Request an Advisory Opinion Wider in the Permanent Court of International Justice than it is in the International Court of Justice?”, British Year Book of International Law, 1991 (1992).
“The Majority Vote of an International Arbitral Tribunal”, Recueil en hommage à Pierre Lalive, 1993 (reprinted in the American Journal of International Arbitration, 1993).
“Concluding Observations on the Special Issue on International Arbitration”, The Flame Rekindled, Leiden Journal of International Law, 1993.
“On the Bench: Lachs the Judge”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 87, Number 3, July 1993.
“Goldberg Variations”, M. Rama-Montaldo, ed., Liber Amicorum:      Estudios en homenaje a los 75 anos del Profesor Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga (1994).
“The Performance and Prospects of the World Court,” Pace International Law Review, Volume VI, No. II, 1994.
“Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga (1918-1994)”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 88, Number 3, July 1994.
“The Prescience and Pertinence of the ILO”, Visions of the Future of Social Justice, Essays on the Occasion of the ILO's 75th Anniversary (1994).
“The Creation and Operation of an International Court of Arbitral Awards”, M. Hunter, A. Marriott, V.V. Veeder, eds., The Internationalization of International Arbitration (1995).
“José Maria Ruda (1924-1994)”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 89, Number 1, January 1995.
“Foreword”, Aron Broches, Selected Essays, World Bank, ICSID, and Other Subjects of Public and Private International Law (1995).
“Obituary: J. Gillis Wetter (1931-1995)”, Arbitration International, Volume 11, No. 2, 1995.
“The Validity of an Arbitral Award Rendered by a Truncated Tribunal,” The Lord Goff Lecture 1994, The Asia Pacific Law Review, Volume IV, No. 2 (1995), reprinted in the ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin, Volume 6, No. 2 (1995).
“The Roles of the Security Council and the International Court of Justice in the Application of International Humanitarian Law”, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Volume 27, No. 4 (1995).
“The Performance and Prospects of the International Court of Justice,” Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel, ed., Perspectives of Air Law, Space Law, and International Business Law for the Next Century (1996).
“The Law Applicable in International Arbitration: Application of Public International Law,” International Council for Commercial Arbitration, Congress Series No. 7, ed. Albert Jan van den Berg (1996).
“Careers in International Law,” American Society of International Law, Internships and Careers in International Law (1996).
“A Celebration of the United Nations New York Convention an the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards,” Arbitration International, Volume 12, No. 1 (1996).
“Compliance with Judgments of International Courts,” Proceedings of the Symposium in Honour of Professor Henry G. Schermers (1996).
“The Treatment of Human Rights and of Aliens in the International Court of Justice,” Vaughan Lowe and Malgosia Fitzmaurice, eds., Fifty Years of the International Court of Justice, Essays in Honour of Sir Robert Jennings (1996).
“May Preparatory Work be Used to Correct Rather than Confirm the 'Clear' Meaning of a Treaty Provision?”, Jerzy Makarczyk, Theory of International Law at the Threshold of the 21st Century, Essays in honour of Krzysztof Skubiszewski (1996).
“Fifty Years of the World Court: a Critical Appraisal,” Proceedings of the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, 1996 (1997).
“May the Majority Vote of an International Arbitral Tribunal be Impeached? The 1996 Freshfields Lecture”, Arbitration International, Volume 13, No. 2 (1997).
“Hersch Lauterpacht: Fragments for a Portrait”, European Journal of International Law, Volume 8, No. 2 (1997).
“May Preparatory Work be used to Correct Rather than Confirm the 'Clear' Meaning of a Treaty Provision?” republished in Svensk Jurist Tidning, 1997.
“Luncheon address: a Site Visit of the World Court”, Contemporary International Law Issues: New Forms, New Applications, 1997 Hague Joint Conference, The American Society of lnternational Law, Nederlandse Vereniging voor lnternationaal Recht (1998).
“The Influence of the International Court of Justice on the Work of the International Law Commission and the Influence of the Commission on the Work of the Court,” Making Better International Law: The International Law Commission at 50 (1998).
“The Docket of the World Court”, Friedmann Award Address, Reprinted from the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Volume 37, Number 1, 1998.
“Judge Christopher Weeramantry - a tribute”, Anghie and Sturgess, Legal Visions of the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Judge Christopher Weeramantry, 1998.
“The Impact of the International Court of Justice”, reprinted from Boutros Boutros Ghali, Amicorum Discipulorumque Liber (1998).
“The Seminal Contributions of the World Court to the Law of Human Rights,” International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO, Fifth Session, Proceedings, December 1998.
“National Judges and Judges Ad Hoc”, Mélanges en l’Honneur de Nicolas Valticos, Droit et justice, Paris, 1999.
“The Contribution of the International Court of Justice to the Development of International Law”, International Law and The Hague's 750th Anniversary (1999).
“The International Court of Justice As a Partner in Preventive Diplomacy”, with Dietmar Prager, United Nations Chronicle, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, 1999.
“Careers in International Law”, American Society of International Law, Careers in International Law (1999-2000).
“National Judges and Judges Ad Hoc of the International Court of Justice”, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Volume 48, 1999.
“Clean Hands in the Court,” Weiss, Rigo and Boisson de Chazournes, The World Bank, International Financial Institutions and the Development of International Law, American Society of International Law, Studies in Transitional Legal Policy No. 31 (1999).
“The Authority of a Truncated Tribunal,” International Council for Commercial Arbitration, Improving the Efficiency of Arbitration Agreements and Awards: 40 Years of Application of the New York Convention, ICCA Congress Series No. 9 (1999).
“The Inter-active Influence of the International Court of Justice and the International Law Commission,” C.A. Armas Barea et al., Liber Americorum `in memorium ' of Judge José Maria Ruda (2000).
“The Impact of the International Court of Justice,” Studia Diplomatica, Volume LIII, 2000, Number 6.
“Attainments of Eduardo Valencia-Ospina as Deputy Registrar and Registrar of the International Court of Justice,” Leiden Journal of International Law, Volume 13 (2000).
“The Proliferation of International Tribunals: Threat or Promise?”, M. Andenas and D. Fairgrieve, Liber Amicorum in Honour of Lord Slynn of Hadley, Volume II (2000).
“Foreword”, Joseph D. Becker, The American Law of Nations (2001).
“Reflections on International Adjudication” 2001-2002 Proceedings of the American Branch of the International Law Association (2001).
“The Treatment of the Belize Question in the United Nations, 1945-1981,” Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, Judge Stephen Schwebel, Professor Shabtai Rosenne, and Professor Francisco Orrego Vicuna, Legal Opinion on Guatemala's Territorial Claim to Belize (2002).
“The Southern Bluefin Tuna Case,” N. Ando, E. McWhinney, R. Wolfrum, Liber Amicorum, Judge Shigeru Oda (2002).
“Monroe Leigh,” American Journal of International Law, Volume 96, No. 1 (2002).
“Foreword,” Anne F. Bayefsky, How to Complain to the UN Human Rights System (2002).
“Foreword,” Pieter H.F. Bekker, World Court Decisions at the Turn of the Millenium (1997-2001), (2002).
“Introduction: Careers in International Law,” American Society of International Law, Careers in International Law (2003-2004 edition).
“The Judgment of the International Court of Justice in the Case Concerning the Gabcivkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia),” Permanent Court of Arbitration/Peace Palace Papers, The Resolution of International Water Disputes (2003).
“Seymour J. Rubin”, American Journal of International Law, Volume 97, No. 2 (2003).
“Injunction of Arbitral Proceedings and Truncation of the Tribunal,” Mealey's International Arbitration Report (April 2003).
“Foreword” to a Memorial for Professor Jonathan Charney, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Volume 36, No. 4 ( October 2003).
“The Reality of International Adjudication and Arbitration,” Willamette Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution, Volume 12 (2004).
“The Influence of Bilateral Investment Treaties on Customary International Law,” Proceedings of the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, March 31-April 3, 2004.
“Anti-Suit Injunctions in International Arbitration: An Overview,” in Emmanuel Gaillard, ed., Anti-Suit Injunctions in International Arbitration (2005).
“Compound Interest in International Law,” A. Giardina and F. Latanzi, Studi di Diritto Internazionale in Onore di Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz (2004).
“The United States 2004 Model Bilateral Investment Treaty: An Exercise in the Regressive Development of International Law,” Liber Amicorum for Dr. Robert Briner (2005).
“Foreword,” to Sean D. Murphy, United States Practice in International Law, Volume 2: 2002-2004 (2006)
“Is Mediation of Foreign Investments Disputes Plausible?”, International Bar Association, Mediation Breakfast, February 1, 2008 (2008)
“The United States 2004 Model Bilateral Investment Treaty and Denial of Justice in International Law,” Festschrift for Christoph Schreuer (2008)
“The Politics of Adjudication”, Proceedings of the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, April 9-13, 2008
“Is Mediation of Foreign Investment Disputes Plausible?, Revista de Arbitragem e Mediacao, Ano 5-17, Abril-junho de 2008.
“Is Mediation of Foreign Investment Disputes Plausible?, ICSID Review, in press.
“A BIT about ICSID”, ICSID Review, in press.

Judicial Opinions
Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya), Application by Malta for Permission to Intervene, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1981, p. 35.
Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1982, p. 99.
Application for Review of Judgment No. 273 of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J.. Reports 1982, p. 454.
Continental Shelf (Libyan Arab Jamarhiriya/Malta), Application by Italy for Permission to Intervene, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1984, p. 131.
Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Request for Provisional Measures, Order, I.C.J. Reports 1984, p. 190.
Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Declaration of lntervention of the Republic of El Salvador, I.C.J. Reports 1984, Order, p. 223.
Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1984, p. 353.
Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Jurisdiction and Admissibility, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1984, p. 558.
Continental Shelf (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya/Malta), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1985, p. 172.
Application for Revision and Interpretation of the Judgment of 24 February 1982 in the Case concerning the Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1985, p. 246.
Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Merits, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1986, p. 259.
Application for Review of Judgment No. 333 of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 1987, p. 110.
Applicability of the Obligation to Arbitrate under Section 21 of the United Nations Headquarters Agreement of 26 June 1947, Order, I.C.J. Reports 1988, p. 6.
Applicability of the Obligation to Arbitrate under Section 21 of the United Nations Headquarters Agreement of 26 June 1947, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 1988, p. 42.
Border and Transborder Armed Actions (Nicaragua v. Honduras), Jurisdiction and Admissibility, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1988, p. 126.
Elettronica Sicula S.p.A. (ELSI), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1989, p. 94.
Aerial Incident of 3 July 1988 (Islamic Republic of lran v. United States of America), Order of 13 December 1989, I.C.J. Reports 1989, p. 136.
Certain Phosphate Lands in Nauru (Nauru v. Australia), Preliminary Objections, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1992, p. 329.
Maritime Delimitation in the Area between Greenland and Jan Mayen, Judgment of 14 June 1993, I.C.J. Reports 1993, p. 118.
Case concerning Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions between Qatar and Bahrain (Qatar v. Bahrain), Jurisdiction and Admissibility, Judgment,I.C.J. Reports 1994, p. 130.
Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions between Qatar and Bahrain, (Qatar v. Bahrain), Jurisdiction and Admissibility, Judgment of 15 February 1995, I.C.J. Reports 1995, p. 27.
Request for an Examination of the Situation in accordance with Paragraph 63 of the Court Judgment of 20 December 1974 in the Nuclear Tests (New Zealand v. France) Case, I.C.J. Reports 1995, p. 309.
Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion of 8 July 1996, I.C.J. Reports 1996, p. 874.
Oil Platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America), Preliminary Objections, Judgment of 12 December 1996, I.C.J. Reports 1996, p. 311.
Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United Kingdom), Preliminary Objections, Judgment of 27 February 1998, I.C.J. Reports 1998, p. 64.
Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United States of America), Preliminary Objections, Judgment of 27 February 1998, I.C.J. Reports 1998, p. 155.
The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Paraguay v. United States of America), Provisional Measures, Order of 9 April 1998, I.C.J. Reports 1998, p. 259.
Fisheries Jurisdiction Case (Spain v. Canada), Jurisdiction of the Court, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1998, p. 420.
LaGrand (Germany v. United States of America), Provisional Measures, Order of 3 March 1999, I.C.J. Reports 1999, p. 21.

Books Reviewed
Jiménez de Arechaga, Voting and Handling of Disputes in the Security Council, Yale Law Journal, Volume 63, 1954.
Haviland, The Political Role of the General Assembly, Yale Law Journal, Volume 63, 1954.
United Nations, Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs, Yale Law Journal, Volume 65, 1956.
Goodrich, The United Nations, American Journal of International Law, Volume 54, 1960.
Higgins, The Development of International Law by the Political Organs of the United Nations, Yale Law Journal, Volume 75, 1966.
Barros, Betrayal from Within: Joseph Avenol, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, 1933-1940, American Journal of International Law, Volume 65, 1971.
Moore, The Arab Israeli Conflict, Virginia Journal of International Law, Volume 16, 1975-1976.
Barros, Office Without Power: Secretary-General Sir Eric Drummond, 1919-1933, American Journal of International Law, Volume 74, 1980.
Barros, Trygve Lie and the Cold War, American Journal of International Law, Volume 85, 1991.
Chinkin, Third Parties in International Law, American Journal of International Law, Volume 89, 1995.
Collier and Lowe, The Settlement of Disputes in International Law, American Journal of International Law, Volume 95, 2001.
Carty and Smith, Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice and the World Crisis, A Legal Adviser in the Foreign Office 1932-1945, American Journal of International Law, Volume 97, 2003.
Lauterpacht, Sir Elihu (ed.), The Collected Papers of Hersch Lauterpacht, Volume V, American Journal of International Law, Volume 99, 2005.
Francisco Orrego Vicuna, International Dispute Settlement in an Evolving Global Society: Constitutionalization, Accessibility, Privatization, American Journal of International Law, Volume 100, No. 4, 2006.
Maurizio Ragazzi, editor, International Responsibility Today: Essays in Memory of Oscar Schachter, American Journal of International Law, Volume 101, No. 1 (2007).
Rudolf Dolzer and Christoph Schreuer, Principles of International Investment Law (2008); Ioana Tudor, The Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in the International Law of Foreign Investment (2008), American Journal of International Law, Volume 102, No.4 (2008)