THEMES AND THEORIES: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Writings in International Law

1437 Pages·2009·22.365 MB·English

by  Rosalyn Higgins

THEMES AND THEORIES
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Th emes and Th eories
Selected Essays, Speeches, and Writings in
International Law
ROSALYN HIGGINS DBE QC
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Acknowledgements
Th e following pieces appear in this volume by kind permission. Every eff ort has
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Introductory Chapter (based on ‘International law since 1945: A Personal
Journey’, Speech given on the eve of receiving the Balzan Prize 2007 for
International Law since 1945, University of Zurich, 22 November 2007).
Part 1: International Legal Th eory
1. ‘Policy Considerations and the International Judicial Process’, International
and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 17(1), pp. 58–84, London, 1968,
Cambridge University Press
2. ‘Policy and Impartiality: Th e Uneasy Relationship in International Law’,
International Organization, Vol. XXIII, No. 4, 914–931, Boston, World Peace
Foundation, 1969, MIT Press
3. ‘Th e UN and Law-making: Th e Political Organs’, Proceedings, American
Society of International Law, Vol. 64, p. 37, New York, 1970
4. ‘Conceptual Th inking about the Individual in International Law’, British
Journal of International Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1–19, London, Europa; and
New York Law School Law Review, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, 11–29, New York, West
Publishing, 1978, Cambridge University Press
5. ‘Th e Identity of International Law’, International Law Teaching and Practice,
(ed. Bin Cheng), 27–45, London, Stevens & Sons, 1982, Permission to
republish granted by Sweet & Maxwell
6. ‘Fundamentals of International Law’, Perspectives in International Law, 1–22,
(ed. N. Jasentuliyana), London, Kluwer, 1995, Permission to republish granted
by Koninklijke Brill N.V.
7. ‘Th e Concept of ‘Th e State’: Variable Geometry and Dualist Perceptions’,
Th e International Legal System in quest of Equity and Universality, Liber
Amicorum Georges Abi-Saab, pp. 547–561, (eds. L.Boisson de Chazournes and
V. Gowlland-Debbas), Th e Hague, Kluwer, 2001, Permission to republish
granted by Koninklijke Brill N.V.
8. Our ‘Virtuous Trilogy’, 181–186, Democracy and the Rule of Law, (eds.
Dorsen & Giff ord), Library of Congress, Washington D.C., 2001, CQ Press
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Part 2: United Nations Law
1. ‘Th e Development of International Law by the Political Organs of the UN’,
Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, New York, 1965
2. ‘United Nations Peace keeping—Political and Financial Problems’, Th e World
Today: Chatham House Review, Vol. 21, issued under the auspices of the Royal
Institute of International Aff airs by Oxford University Press, pp. 324–337, 1965
3. ‘Th e Place of International Law in the Settlement of Disputes by the Security
Council’, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 64, 1–15, 1970
4. ‘Th e Advisory Opinion on Namibia: Which UN Resolutions are Binding
Under Article 25 of the Charter?,’ International and Comparative Law
Quarterly, Vol. 21, Part 2, p. 270, (London, BIICL), 1972, Cambridge
University Press
5. ‘Th e New United Nations: Appearance and Reality’, Th e Josephine Onoh
Memorial Lecture, University of Hull Press, 1993
6. ‘Th e New United Nations and Former Yugoslavia’, 69 International Aff airs
465, 1993, Blackwell Publishing
7. ‘Th e UN Security Council and the Individual State’, Th e Changing Constitution
of the United Nations, (ed. Hazel Fox), 43–51, London, British Institute of
International and Comparative Law, 1997
8. ‘Some Th oughts on the Evolving Relationship between the Security Council
and NATO’, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Amicorum Discipulorumque Liber Vol. I,
511, Brussels, Bruylant, 1998
Part 3: Use of Force
1. ‘Intervention and International Law’, Intervention in World Politics, (ed. H.
Bull), 29–44, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984
2. ‘Second-Generation Peacekeeping’, Proceedings of the American Society of
International Law, 275–280, New York, 1995
3. ‘Peace and Security: Achievements and Failures’, European Journal of
International Law, Vol. 6, No. 3, 445–460, Florence, European University
Institute, 1995
4. ‘Th e New Challenges and the Role of the International Court of Justice’, in: Th e
New Challenges of Humanitarian Law in Armed Confl icts: in Honour of Professor
Juan Antonio Carrillo-Salcedo, (ed. by Pablo Antonio Fernández-Sánchez),
Martinus Nijhoff , 2005, Permission to republish granted by Koninklijke Brill
N.V.
Part 4: State and Diplomatic Immunities
1. ‘Recent Developments in the Law of Sovereign Immunity in the United
Kingdom’, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 71, No. 3, 423–437,
1977
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2. ‘Th e Death Th roes of Absolute Immunity’, American Journal of International
Law, Vol. 73, 465–470, 1979
3. ‘Execution of State Property: United Kingdom Practice’, Netherlands Yearbook
of International Law, Vol. X, 35–54, Alphen a/d Rijn, Sijthoff & Noordhoff ,
1980
4. ‘Certain Unresolved Aspects of the Law of State Immunity’, Netherlands
International Law Review, 265, 1982, Cambridge University Press
5. ‘Th e Abuse of Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities: Recent United Kingdom
Experience’, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 79, No. 3, 641–651,
1985
6. ‘Execution of State Property in English Law’, L’Immunité d’Exécution de l’Etat
Étranger 101–120, Paris, Montchrestien, 1990
7. ‘After Pinochet: Developments on Head of State and Ministerial Immunities’,
Th e Incorporated Council of Law Reporting Annual Lecture 2006, London,
26 June 2006
Part 5: Human Rights
1. ‘Th e Soblen Case’, Th e World Today: Chatham House Review, Vol. 18, issued
under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Aff airs by Oxford
University Press, pp. 415–427, 1962
2. ‘Th e Right in International Law of an Individual to Enter, Stay In and Leave a
Country’, International Aff airs, 1973, Blackwell Publishing
3. ‘Derogations Under Human Rights Treaties’, British Yearbook of International
Law, LXVII, 281–320, 1976
4. ‘Encouraging Human Rights’, London School of Economics Quarterly
(Autumn), 249–265, 1988, Blackwell Publishing
5. ‘Th e UN: Still a Force for Peace’, (Chorley Lecture 1988), Modern Law Review,
Vol. 52, p. 1, 1989, Blackwell Publishing; also published in the Commonwealth
Law Bulletin, Vol. 15, 598, under the title ‘Human Rights: Some Questions of
Integrity’
6. ‘Liberty of Movement within the Territory of a State: Th e Contribution
of the Committee on Human Rights’, International Law at a Time of
Perplexity—Essays in Honour of Shabtai Rosenne, (ed. Yoram Dinstein),
325–342, Th e Hague, Martinus Nijhoff , 1989, Permission to republish
granted by Koninklijke Brill N.V.
7. ‘Th e Relationship Between International Law and Regional Human Rights
Norms and Domestic Law’, Developing Human Rights Jurisprudence, Vol. 5,
London, Commonwealth Secretariat, 1993
8. ‘Minority Rights: Discrepancies and Divergencies Between the International
Covenant and the Council of Europe System’, Th e Dynamics of the Protection
of Human Rights in Europe—Essays in Honour of Henry G. Schermers, (eds.
Lawson & de Blois), Vol. III, 195–209, Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff , 1994,
Permission to republish granted by Koninklijke Brill N.V.
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9. Foreword in Th e International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
and United Kingdom Law, (eds. David Harris & Sarah Joseph), Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1995
10. ‘Ten Years on the Human Rights Committee’, European Human Rights Law
Review, No. 6, 570–582, Andover, Sweet & Maxwell, 1996, Permission to
republish granted by Sweet & Maxwell
11. Introduction from Human Rights as General Norms and a State’s Right to
Opt Out, Reservations and Objections to Human Rights Conventions, (ed. J.P.
Gardner), London British Institute of International and Comparative Law,
Human Rights Series, 1997
12. ‘Interim Measures for the Protection of Human Rights’, Politics, Values and
Functions, International Law in the 21st Century, Essays in Honour of Professor
Louis Henkin, (eds. Charney, Anton & O’Connell), 87–103, Th e Hague,
Martinus Nijhoff , 1997; also published in Columbia Journal of Transnational
Law, Vol. 36, Nos. 1 & 2, 1997, Permission to republish granted by
Koninklijke Brill N.V.
13. ‘Th e Role of Domestic Courts in the Enforcement of International Human
Rights: Th e United Kingdom’, Enforcing International Human Rights in
Domestic Courts, Part II, (eds. Conforti & Francioni), 37–58, Th e Hague,
Martinus Nijhoff , 1997, Permission to republish granted by Koninklijke
Brill N.V.
14. ‘Th e International Court of Justice and Human Rights’. International Law:
Th eory and Practice: Essays in Honour of Eric Suy, (ed. K. Wellens), 691–705,
Th e Hague, Martinus Nijhoff , 1998, Permission to republish granted by
Koninklijke Brill N.V.
15. ‘Th e Continuing Universality of the Universal Declaration’, Innovation
and Inspiration: Fifty Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
(eds. Baehr, Flinterman, Senders), 17–26, Amsterdam, Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999
16. ‘Extradition, Th e Right to Life, and the Prohibition Against Cruel and
Inhuman Punishment and Treatment: Similarities and Diff erences under
the ECHR and the ICCPR’, Protecting Human Rights: Th e European
Perspective—Studies in Memory of Rolv Ryssdal, (eds. Mahoney, Matscher,
Petzold, Wildhaber), 605–615, Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne, 2000.
Republished by kind permission of Carl Heymanns Verlag GmbH
17. ‘Dispersal and Coalesence in International Human Rights Law’, 2007
Anna Lindh Memorial Lecture, Lund University Hall, Lund, 3 October
2007
Part 6: International Petroleum Law
1. ‘Legal Preconditions of Foreign Investment’, Energy Law ‘86, Proceedings
of the International Bar Association Seminar, Munich 1986, Reproduced
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by kind permission of the International Bar Association, London, UK. ©
International Bar Association 2008
2. ‘Abandonment of Energy Sites and Structures: Relevant International Law’.
Th is article was fi rst published in the Journal of Energy & Natural Resources
Law, Vol. 11, pp. 6–16, 1993 and is reproduced by kind permission of the
International Bar Association, London, UK. © International Bar Association
2008
3. ‘Natural Resources in the Case Law of the International Court’, International
Law and Sustainable Development: Past Achievements and Future Challenges,
(eds. Boyle & Freestone), Essays in Honour of Patricia Birnie, 87–111,
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998
Part 7: General
1. ‘Legal Problems Arising from the Dissolution of the Mali Federation’, British
Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 36, pp. 375–384, 1960 (as Rosalyn
Cohen).
2. ‘Th e International Court and South West Africa: Th e Implications of the
Judgment’, International Aff airs, Vol. 42, No. 4, 573–599, London, Royal
Institute of International Aff airs, 1966, Blackwell Publishing
3. ‘International Law and the Reasonable Need of Governments to Govern’,
LSE Inaugural Lecture, London, London School of Economics, 1982
4. ‘Th e Legal Bases of Jurisdiction’, Extraterritorial Application of Laws
and Responses Th ereto, (ed. Olmstead), 3–14, Oxford, International Law
Association in association with ESC Publishing Ltd, 1984, reproduced by
permission of the International Law Association
5. ‘United Kingdom’, Th e Eff ect of Treaties in Domestic Law, Vol. 7 (eds. Jacobs
& Roberts), London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1987, Permission to republish
granted by Sweet & Maxwell
6. ‘Postmodern Tribalism and the Right to Secession, Comments’, in: Peoples
and Minorities in International Law, (eds. Brohamn, Lefeber & Zieck),
29–35, Th e Hague, Martinus Nijhoff , 1993, Permission to republish granted
by Koninklijke Brill N.V.
7. Report for Institut de Droit International, Th e Legal Consequences for Member
States of the Non-fulfi lment by International Organizations of their Obligations
Toward Th ird Parties, Annuaire de l’Institut de Droit International, Session de
Lisbonne, Vol. 66-I, 1995
8. ‘Some Observations on the Inter-Temporal Rule in International Law’, Th eory
of International Law at the Th reshold of the 21st Century—Essays in Honour of
Krysztof Skubiszewski, (ed. Makarczyk), 173–181, Th e Hague, Kluwer Law
International, 1997, Permission to republish granted by Koninklijke Brill N.V.
9. ‘Time and the Law: International Perspectives on an Old Problem’,
International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 46, Part 3, 501–520
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