List of Abbreviations

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Table of Cases

xi

List of Contributors

xxi

General Introduction

1

1.

Legal Status (Personality)

7

1.1.

Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations, Advisory Opinion, [1949] ICJ Rep 174 / Ramses A. Wessel

11

1.2.

Case 22/70, Commission v Council (European Road Transport Agreement), Court of Justice of the EC, [1971] ECR 263 / Jan Klabbers

19

1.3.

Maclaine Watson & Co. Ltd v International Tin Council, 26 October 1989, United Kingdom House of Lords, 81 ILR 670 / Paolo Palchetti

28

1.4.

Arab Monetary Fund v Hashim and others, 21 February 1991 United Kingdom House of Lords, 85 ILR 1 / Kirsten Schmalenbach

38

1.5.

Cases 7/56 and 3/57-7/57, Algera, Court of Justice of the EC, [1957--8] ECR 39 and Case C-327/91, France v Commission, Court of Justice of the EC, [1994] ECR 1-3641 / Jan Klabbers

48

1.6.

Application of the Interim Accord of 13 September 1995 (The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia v Greece), Judgment, [2011] ICJ Rep 644 / Ana Sofia Barros

56

2.

Legal Powers

67

2.1.

Interpretation of the Greco-Turkish Agreement of 1 December 1926, Permanent Court of International Justice, Advisory Opinion, [1926] Publ. PCIJ, Series B, No. 16 / Blanca Montejo

71

2.2.

Effect of Awards of Compensation Made by the United Nations Administrative Tribunal Advisory Opinion [1954] ICJ Rep 47 / Kenneth Keith

80

2.3.

Certain Expenses of the United Nations (Article 17, paragraph 2, of the Charter), International Court of Justice, Advisory Opinion, [1962] ICJ Rep 151 / Jed Odermatt

91

2.4.

Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict International Court of Justice, Advisory Opinion of 8 July 1996, [1996] ICJ Rep 66 / Jakob Quirin

102

3.

Institutional Structure and the Position of Members

113

3.1.

Case Concerning Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention Arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libya Arab Jamahiriya v United States of America), Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures, Order of 14 April 1992, [1992] ICJ Rep 114 / Nigel D. White

117

3.2.

Prosecutor v Dusko Tadic, Decision on the defence motion for interlocutory appeal on jurisdiction, IT-94-1-AR72, Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, 2 October 1995 / Ramses A. Wessel

127

3.3.

Conditions of Admission of a State to Membership in the United Nations (Article 4 of the Charter), Advisory Opinion, [1948] ICJ Rep 57; Competence of the General Assembly for the Admission of a State to the United Nations, Advisory Opinion, [1950] ICJ Rep 4 / Agnes Chong

168

4.

Legal Acts

157

4.1.

Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia (South West Africa) notwithstanding Security Council Resolution 276 (1970), Advisory Opinion, [1971] ICJ Rep 16 / Brianne McGonigle Leyh

159

4.2.

Solange I, BverfGE 37, 291, 29 May 1974; Solange II, BverfGE 73, 339, 22 October 1986; Solange III, BverfGE 89,155 12 October 1993; and Solange IV, BverfGE 102, 147, 7 June 2000 / Peter Hilpold

170

4.3.

Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v United States of America), Merits, Judgment, [1986] ICJ Rep 14 / Andrzej Gadkowski

183

4.4.

Youssef Nada v State Secretariat for Economic Affairs and Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Administrative Appeal Judgment, Case No. 1A 45/2007, Switzerland, Federal Tribunal, 14 November 2007, 133 BGE II 450; ILDC 461 (CH2007) / Antonios Tzanakopoulos

193

4.5.

Case T-315/01, Yassin Abdullah Kadi v Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities, 21 September 2005, [2005] ECR II-3649 (Kadi I CFT) Cases C-402/05 P and C-415/05 P, Yassin Abdullah Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v Council and Commission, Court of Justice of the EC [2008] ECR I-6351 (Kadi I ECJ); Case T-85/09, Kadi v Commission [2010] ECR II-5177 (Kadi II GCEU); Joined Cases C-584/10 P, C-593/10 P, and C-595/10 P, Commission and United Kingdom v Kadi, Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 18 July 2013 (Kadi II [ect.] / Antonios Tzanakopoulos

204

5.

Obligations of International Organizations

233

5.1.

Case 21-24/72, International Fruit Company v Produktschap voor Siergewassen, Court of Justice of the EC, [1972] ECR 1219 / Pieter Jan Kuijper

235

5.2.

Interpretation of the Agreement of 25 March 1951 between the WHO and Egypt, Advisory Opinion, [1980] ICJ Rep 73 / Catherine Brolmann

245

5.3.

Case No. IT-95-9-PT, Decision on the Motion for a Judicial Assistance to be Provided by SFOR and Others, Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, 18 October 2000 / Harmen van der Wilt

255

6.

Responsibility

265

6.1.

Westland Helicopters Ltd v Arab Organization for Industrialization, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, State of Qatar, Arab Republic of Egypt, and Arab British Helicopter Company, Arbitration, 5 March 1984, 80 ILR 600 / Christiane Ahlborn

268

6.2.

Arab Organization for Industrialization and others v Westland Helicopters Ltd, Swiss Federal Supreme Court (First Civil Court), 19 July 1988, 80 ILR 652 / Christiane Ahlborn

277

6.3.

Matthews v United Kingdom, ECtHR, App. No. 24833/94, 18 February 1999 / Ana Sofia Barros

286

6.4.

Admissibility of the Application by Vlastimir and Borka Bankovic, Zivana Stojanovic, Mirjana Stoimenovski, Dragana Koksimovic, and Dragan Sukovic against Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, European Court of Human Rights, Grand Chamber Decision, [ect.] / Tullio Scovazzi

300

6.5.

Bosphorus Hava Yollari Turizm veTicaret Anonim Sirketi v Ireland, App. No. 45036/98, European Court of Human Rights, 30 June 2005 / Tobias Lock

309

6.6.

Agim Behrami and Bekir Behrami v France, App. No. 71412/01 and Ruzhdi Saramati v France, Germany, and Norway, App. No. 78166/01, European Court of Human Rights, 2 May 2007 / Santiago Villalpando

319

6.7.

Gasparini v Italy and Belgium, App. No. 10750/03, Admissibility Decision, European Court of Human Rights, 12 May 2009 / Tobias Lock

328

6.8.

Mukeshimana-Nguilinzira and ors. v Belgium and ors., Brussels Court of First Instance, ILDC 1604 (BE 2010), 8 December 2010 / Cedric Ryngaert

336

6.9.

Nuhanovic v Netherlands, Judgment, BZ9225, and Mustafic v Netherlands, Judgment, BZ9228, Supreme Court of The Netherlands, 6 September 2013 / Otto Spijkers

342

6.10.

Al-Jedda v United Kingdom, App. No. 27021/08, European Court of Human Rights, 7 July 2011 / Aurel Sari

351

7.

Immunity

361

7.1.

Manderlier v Organisation des Nations Unies and Etat Belge (Ministre des Affaires Etrangeres), Tribunal Civil de Bruxelles, 11 May 1966, Journal des Tribunaux, 10 December 1966, No. 4553, 121 / Pierre Schmitt

364

7.2.

Abdi Hosh Askir v Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Joseph E. Connor et al., US District Court SDNY, 29 July 1996, 933 F. Suppl. 368 (SDNY 1996) / Tom Ruys

375

7.3.

Difference relating to Immunity from Legal Process of a Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, Advisory Opinion, [1999] ICJ Rep 62 / Chanaka Wickremasinghe

385

7.4.

Beer and Regan v Germany, App. No. 28934/95 and Waite and Kennedy v Germany, App. No. 26083/94, European Court of Human Rights, 18 February 1999 / Anne Peters

392

7.5.

League of Arab States v T M., Belgian Court of Cassation, ILDC 42 (BE 2001), 12 March 2001 / Cedric Ryngaert

406

7.6.

Prewitt Enterprises, Inc. v Org. of Petroleum Exporting Countries, 353 F.3d 916 (11th Cir. 2003) / Kirsten Boon

412

7.7.

Entico Corporation Ltd v UNESCO, 18 March 2008, [2008] EWHC 531 (Comm), [2008] 2 All ER (Comm) 97 / Chanaka Wickremasinghe

418

7.8.

Western European Union v Siedler, Belgian Court of Cassation, 21 December 2009 / Pierre Schmitt

424

7.9.

OSS Nokalva, Inc. v European Space Agency, United States Third Circuit decision, 617 F.3d 756 (3d Cir. 2010) / Kirsten Boon

432

7.10.

Mothers of Srebrenica v The Netherlands and the UN, LJN: BW1999, Dutch Supreme Court, 13 April 2012 and Stichting Mothers of Srebrenica and Others against The Netherlands, App. No. 65542/12, European Court of Human Rights, 11 June 2013 / Aleksandar Momirov

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Index

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