OUVRAGE : The United Nations, Seventy Years of the International Law Commission

The United Nations

 

Seventy Years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future brings together voices from academia and practice to celebrate and critically evaluate the work of the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC) over the past seventy years. The edited volume draws on the events commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the Commission, which took place in New York and Geneva in May and July 2018. At a time when multilateral law-making has become increasingly challenging, the edited volume appraises the role of one the most important driving forces behind the codification of international law and discusses the ILC’s future contribution to the development of international law. 
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 

Foreword
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Secretariat of the International Law Commission 

PART I
DRAWING A BALANCE FOR THE FUTURE: THE NEW YORK CONVERSATION

Section 1: The Commission and the Sixth Committee: Structural Challenges

Introductory Remarks by Eduardo Valencia-Ospina, Chair of the International Law Commission at Its Seventieth Session
Presentation by François Alabrune, Director of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, France
Presentation by Mahmoud D. Hmoud, Member of the International Law Commission
Presentation by Janine Felson, Deputy Permanent Representative of Belize to the United Nations
Presentation by Ernest Petrič, Member of the International Law Commission

Section 2: The Commission and the Sixth Committee: Reflections on the Interaction in the Past and the Future

Introductory Remarks by Burhan Gafoor, Chair of the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly at Its Seventy-Second Session
Presentation by Evgeny Zagaynov, Director of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation
Presentation by Concepción Escobar Hernández, Member of the International Law Commission
Presentation by Angel Horna, Legal Adviser, Permanent Mission of Peru to the United Nations
Presentation by Hussein A. Hassouna, Member of the International Law Commission

PART II
DRAWING A BALANCE FOR THE FUTURE: THE GENEVA SYMPOSIUM

Introductory Remarks by Georg Nolte, Chair of the International Law Commission at Its Sixty-Ninth Session

Section 3: The Commission and Its Impact

Opening Remarks by Pedro Comissário Afonso
Alejandro Rodiles, The International Law Commission and Change: Not Tracing but Facing It
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, The International Law Commission in a Mirror— Forms, Impact and Authority
Concluding Remarks by Pavel Šturma

Section 4: The Working Methods of the Commission

Opening Remarks by Aleksandar V. Gajić
Danae Azaria, The Working Methods of the International Law Commission: Adherence to Methodology, Commentaries and Decision-Making
Maurice Kamto, The Working Methods of the International Law Commission
Concluding Remarks by Shinya Murase

Section 5: The Function of the Commission: How Much Identifying Existing Law, How Much Proposing New Law?

Opening Remarks by Davinia Aziz
Yifeng Chen, Between Codification and Legislation: a Role for the
International Law Commission as an Autonomous Law- Maker
Ineta Ziemele, The Functions of the International Law Commission: Identifying Existing Law or Proposing New Law?
Concluding Remarks by Sean D. Murphy

Section 6: The Changing Landscape of International Law

Opening Remarks by Elinor Hammarsjköld
Hajer Gueldich, Challenges of Codification for the International Law Commission in a Changing Landscape of International Law
Keun-Gwan Lee, Recalibrating the Conception of Codification in the Changing Landscape of International Law
Concluding Remarks by Claudio Grossman Guiloff

Section 7: The Authority and the Membership of the Commission

Opening Remarks by Djamchid Momtaz
Zuzana Trávníčková, The International Law Commission and the International Law Codification Market
Mónica Pinto, The Authority and the Membership of the Commission in the Future
Concluding Remarks by Dire Tladi

PART III 
CELEBRATORY CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE OCCASION OF THE SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMMISSION

Section 8: Commemorative Speeches Delivered in New York

Statement by Eduardo Valencia-Ospina, Chair of the International Law Commission at Its Seventieth Session (Spanish and English)
Statement by Miroslav Lajčák, President of the General Assembly of the United Nations at Its Seventy-Second Session
Statement by Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under- Secretary- General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel
Statement by Burhan Gafoor, Chair of the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly at Its Seventy- Second Session
Statement by Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations (French and English)
Statement by Jennifer Newstead, Legal Adviser of the Department of State of the United States of America
Keynote Address by Nico Schrijver, President of the Institut de Droit international and Professor of Public International Law, Leiden University

Section 9: Commemorative Speeches Delivered in Geneva

Statement by Eduardo Valencia-Ospina, the Chair of the International Law Commission at Its Seventieth Session (Spanish and English)
Statement by Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel
Statement by Corinne Cicéron Bühler, Director of the Directorate for International Law and Legal Advisor of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (French and English)
Statement by Kate Gilmore, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
Keynote Address by Abdulqawi A. Yusuf, President of the International Court of Justice

 

 

The United Nations, Seventy Years of the International Law Commission, Leiden, Brill/Nijhoff, 2020 (462 pp.)