INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT

BCL/MJUR COURSE 2003-2004

 

 

 

TOPIC 7:        THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND POLITICAL

DISPUTES/HUMAN RIGHTS

 

Text books:

 

·         J. Collier & V. Lowe, The Settlement of Disputes in International Law (1999), pp. 41-44.

·         J. Merrills, International Dispute Settlement (1998, 3rd ed.), Chapter 10.

 

Further readings:

 

·         I. Brownlie, The Rule of Law in International Affairs: International Law at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations (1998), pp. 65-78, 198-209.

·         R. Higgins, Problems & Process: International Law and How We Use It (1994), pp. 169-185, 254-266.

·         F. Kirgis, “The Security Council’s First Fifty Years,” 89 American Journal of International Law (“AJIL”) (1995), p. 506.

·         S. Lamb, “Legal Limits to United Nations Security Council Powers,” in The Reality of International Law: Essays in Honour of Ian Brownlie (G. Goodwin-Gill & S. Talmon eds.), (1999), pp. 361-88.

·         M. Wood, “Security Council Working Methods and Procedures,” 45 Int’l & Comp. L.Q. (1996), p. 50.

·         J. Alvarez, Judging the Security Council, 90 AJIL (1996), p. 1.

·         M. Reisman & Douglas Stevick, “The Applicability of International Law Standards to United Nations

Economic Sanctions Programmes,” 9 European Journal of International Law (“EJIL”) (1998), p. 86.

·         D. Sarooshi, The United Nations and the Development of Collective Security, (1999), pp. 167-168, 142-148, 210-229, & 232-244.

 

·         V. Lowe, ‘Submission to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on the Kosovo crisis’, 49 ICLQ (2000), p. 934 and C. Greenwood, ibid., p. 926.

·         The series of cases brought before the International Court of Justice by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia against NATO member States (see the Court’s web-site (www.icj-cij.org) for the Yugoslav application, the pleadings by States, and the Court’s decision on preliminary measures.)

·         “Editorial Comments: NATO’s Kosovo Intervention,” 93 AJIL (1999), pp. 824-62.

·         B. Simma, “NATO, the UN and the Use of Force: Legal Aspects,” 10 EJIL (1999), p. 1.

·         C. Gray, International Law and the Use of Force (2000), pp. 26-42.

·         K. Annan, “Peace-Keeping in Situations of Civil War,” 26 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. (1994), p. 623.

·         F. Kirgis, “Security Council Governance of Postconflict Societies: A Plea for Good Faith and Informed Decision Making,” 95 AJIL (2001), 579.

·         R. Wilde, “From Danzig to East Timor and Beyond: the Role of International Territorial Administration,” 95 AJIL (2001), p. 583.

·         T. Franck, “The Secretary-General’s Role in Conflict Resolution: Past, Present and Pure Conjecture,” 6 EJIL (1995), p. 360.