Resumen de Three Recent Works on the ICJ

Malgosia Fitzmaurice (res.)

• The 70th anniversary of the International Court of Justice is a proper moment to reflect on three seminal publications published in recent years on this subject, but very different in their approach and analysis. Two publications, by Shaw and Thirlway, are reviewed in detail here; the monograph of Robert Kolb was reviewed in this Yearbook by Hugh Thirlway, and is accordingly mentioned more briefly.

  Scholarly interest in the Court’s jurisprudence is very varied. An informative editorial in the Leiden Journal of International Law observes that ‘interest in the Court has shifted back and forth from issues raised by pending cases to more general questions such as procedural issues and impact, with the former...