The Thirty-Fourth Session of the International Law Commission

1983 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen C. McCaffrey
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Law Commission ◽  
Fourth Session ◽  
Law Commission

The 34th session of the international Law Commission was held in Geneva from May 3 to July 23, 1982, and was chaired by the Commission’s dean, Professor Paul Reuter of France. This was the first meeting of the Commission in its new and enlarged composition. Its composition was new in the sense that all of its members were beginning a new 5-year term of office, the term of the former Commission having expired at the end of 1981. It was enlarged as a result of a decision taken by the General Assembly at its session in the fall of 1981 to expand the membership of the ILC from 25 to 34.

The Twenty-Fifth Session of the International Law Commission

1974 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard D. Kearney
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Limited Time ◽  
Most Favored Nation ◽  
Forced Draft ◽  
Most Favored Nation Clause ◽  
International Law Commission ◽  
Fourth Session ◽  
Law Commission

At its Twenty-Fifth Session the International Law Commission determined to allot some of its limited time to each of the active subjects on its agenda. The decision was the child of necessity. The Draft Articles on the Representation of States in Their Relations with International Organizations had taken up most of the Commissions sessions in 1969, 1970, and 1971, and the Twenty-Fourth Session in 1972 had, under forced draft, produced the draft articles on the Succession of States to Treaties and on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Diplomatic Agents and Other Internationally Protected Persons. The inevitable byproduct was a mounting pressure, both within the Commission and from the General Assembly, for intensive examination of the draft articles and commentaries on State Responsibility, Succession of States in Matters Other Than Treaties, the Most-Favored-Nation Clause, and the Report on Treaties Concluded Between States and International Organizations.

The Work of the International Law Commission, 2007–2011: Progress and Prospects

2012 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald McRae
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
The Law ◽  
International Law Commission ◽  
Transboundary Aquifers ◽  
Law Commission ◽  
The Way

On November 17, 2011, the UN General Assembly elected the members of the International Law Commission for the next five years. In the course of the quinquennium that was completed in August 2011 with the end of the sixty-third session, the Commission concluded four major topics on its agenda: the law of transboundary aquifers, the responsibility of international organizations, the effect of armed conflicts on treaties, and reservations to treaties. It was by any standard a substantial output. The beginning of a new quinquennium now provides an opportunity to assess what the Commission has achieved, to consider the way it operates, and to reflect on what lies ahead for it.

Visits to the ICRC

1990 ◽  
Vol 30 (277) ◽  
pp. 345-346
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
International Law Commission ◽  
Law Commission

• ICRC President Comelio Sommaruga received the members of the International Law Commission (ILC) at ICRC headquarters on 7 June 1990.The Commission is a subsidiary body of the United Nations General Assembly. Its 34 members are elected from among the most eminent representatives of the world's different legal systems. The Commission is entrusted with the task of promoting the codification and development of international law. It is currently working on the codification of offences against the peace and security of mankind (which include war crimes) and the setting up of an international criminal court.

scholarly journals The International Law Commission Adopts Draft Articles on International Watercourses

1995 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen C. McCaffrey
Keyword(s):  
Ground Water ◽  
International Law ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Complete Set ◽  
The Law ◽  
International Law Commission ◽  
Law Commission

At its 1994 session, the International Law Commission (ILC) completed the final adoption (“second reading”) of a complete set of thirty-three draft articles on the law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses, together with a resolution on transboundary confined ground water. The Commission submitted the draft articles and the resolution to the General Assembly and recommended that a convention on international watercourses be elaborated by the Assembly or by an international conference of plenipotentiaries on the basis of the Commission’s draft.

The Work of The International Law Commission on “Relations between States and International Organizations” Discontinued: an Assessment

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter H.F. Bekker
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
International Law Commission ◽  
Law Commission

The UN General Assembly has recently decided to delete from the agenda of the International Law Commission the topic ‘Relations between States and International Organizations’.Over a period of 31 years, fourteen Reports by two successive Special Rapporteurs studied the topic in two parts. The First part of the topic (1963–1975) dealt with the privileges and immunities of representatives of states to international organizations, and resulted in a Convention, that has, however, not yet entered into force; the Second part of the topic (1976–1992) concentrated on the legal status and immunities of organizations themselves.The author analyzes the Draft Articles that have been submitted in the course of the ILC's study of the Second part. This is done by way of a three-step application of the functional necessity concept of organizational immunities:(1) Status, dealing with an organization's functions, legal personality and capacity-(2) Selection, defining a scale of organizational immunities for which an organization may be eligible - and (3) Scope, determining the extent of selected immunities. Finally, the author employs the two statutory functions of the ILC -the codification of international law and the progressive development of international law- to assess the contribution by the ILC to this field of international institutional law.

Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1949. Summary Records and Documents of the First Session. New York: United Nations; Columbia University Press, 1956. pp. vi, 312. Index. $3.00. - Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1950. Vol. I: Summary Records, Second Session, pp. x, 342, Index, $3.50; Vol. II: Documents, Second Session, pp. iv, 387, $4.00. New York: United Nations; Columbia University Press, 1957, 1958. - Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1951. Vol. I : Summary Records, Third Session, pp. viii, 450, Index, $4.50; Vol. II : Documents, Third Session, pp. iv, 146, $1.50; New York: United Nations; Columbia University Press, 1957. - Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1952. Vol. II: Documents, Fourth Session. New York: United Nations; Columbia University Press, 1958. pp. iv, 72. $ .70. - Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1956. Vol. I : Summary Records, Eighth Session, pp. ii, 294, Index, $3.00; Vol. II : Documents, Eighth Session, pp. iv, 303. $3.00. New York: United Nations; Columbia University Press, 1956. - Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1957. Vol. I : Summary Records, Ninth Session, pp. viii, 232, $2.50; Vol. II : Documents, Ninth Session, pp. iv, 147, $1.75. New York: United Nations; Columbia University Press, 1957, 1958. - Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1958. Vol. II: Documents, Tenth Session. New York: United Nations; Columbia University Press, 1958. pp. iv, 140. $1.50.

1959 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 463-464
Author(s):  
Herbert W. Briggs
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
International Law Commission ◽  
Fourth Session ◽  
Law Commission ◽  
First Session
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