International Law, the International Court of Justice and Nuclear Weapons Book

	List of contributors
	Preface
	List of abbreviations
	Table of treaties and other international acts
	Table of cases
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Actors, Institutions and the International Court of Justice
1	Who are the addressees of the Opinions?	27
	Quels sont les destinataires des avis?	28
2	On discretion: reflections on the nature of the consultative function of the International Court of Justice	36
3	ET and the International Court of Justice: reflections of an extra-terrestrial on the two Advisory Opinions	51
	E.T. a la Cour Internationale de Justice: meditations d'un extra-terrestre sur deux avis consultatifs	52
4	The jurisdiction and merits phases distinguished	59
5	Reflections on the principle of speciality revisited and the 'politicisation' of the specialized agencies	78
	Quelques reflexions sur le principe de specialite et la 'politisation' des institutions specialisees	79
6	Judicial review of the acts of international organisations	92
7	The WHO request	103
8	The WHO case: implications for specialised agencies	112
Pt. II	Substantive Aspects
9	Lotus and the double structure of international legal argument	131
10	Non liquet and the incompleteness of international law	153
11	Treaty and custom	171
12	Nuclear weapons and jus cogens: peremptory norms and justice pre-empted?	181
13	The question of the law of neutrality	199
	La question du droit de la neutralite	200
14	The status of nuclear weapons in the light of the Court's Opinion of 8 July 1996	209
	Le statut des armes nucleaires a la lumiere de l'Avis de la CIJ du 8 juillet 1996	210
15	International humanitarian law, or the exploration by the Court of a terra somewhat incognita to it	228
	Le droit international humanitaire, ou de l'exploration par la Cour d'une terra a peu pres incognita pour elle	229
16	Jus ad bellum and jus in bello in the Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion	247
17	On the relationship between jus ad bellum and jus in bello in the General Assembly Advisory Opinion	267
18	Necessity and proportionality in jus ad bellum and jus in bello	275
19	The notion of 'state survival' in international law	293
20	The right to life and genocide: the Court and an international public policy	315
21	Opening the door to the environment and to future generations	338
22	The use of nuclear weapons and the protection of the environment: the contribution of the International Court of Justice	354
	Le recours a l'arme nucleaire et la protection de l'environnement: l'apport de la Cour internationale de Justice	355
23	The Non-Proliferation Treaty and its future	375
24	The Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinions: the Declarations and Separate and Dissenting Opinions	390
25	The perspective of Japanese international lawyers	435
Pt. III	The Opinions in their Broader Context
26	Between the individual and the state: international law at a crossroads?	449
27	The Nuclear Weapons case	462
28	The political consequences of the General Assembly Advisory Opinion	473
29	The silence of law/the voice of justice	488
30	Fairness and the General Assembly Advisory Opinion	511
Annexes	Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons (request by the United Nations General Assembly), ICJ Advisory Opinion, 8 July 1996 (excluding Individual Declarations, Separate and Dissenting Opinions)	520
Annexes	Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict (Request of the World Health Organization), ICJ Advisory Opinion, 8 July 1996 (excluding Individual Declarations, Separate and Dissenting Opinions)	561
	Select bibliography	581
	Index	583