The World Court in Action Judging among the Nations

by Meyer, Howard N.; Hesburgh, Fr. Theodore M., C.S.C.

• ISBN13: 9780742509245
• ISBN10: 0742509249
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-11
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In this book, Howard N. Meyer traces the World Court back to The Hague Conference of 1899 and shows its development through World War I, the League of Nations, World War II, and the Cold War, all the way up to the contemporary challenges of East Timor and Kosovo. More recently, Meyer distinguishes between the nation-state oriented work of the World Court and the work of the International Criminal Court which was proposed in 1998 to prosecute individual war criminals like Milosevic and others coming out of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. As different as they are, the World Court and the ICC have a common problem that this book seeks to address: resistance in Washington to the international rule of law, especially when it comes to authority surrounding the use of force. The World Court may have an increasingly important role to play in governing the war on terrorism.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Fr. Theodore M. Hesburgh
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Prologue	1	(10)
A Century Ends, and Effort Begins	11	(10)
Onward Movement until a Tragic Halt	21	(16)
Not a Whole World's Court	37	(14)
The Part-World Court Functions	51	(10)
Judging ``Between the Nations'' Begins	61	(16)
A Palace as a Court House	77	(10)
The Court's Second Coming	87	(14)
Advice about the UN Charter and Others	101	(14)
Transnational Force and Global Law	115	(12)
Transnational Force: Iran and Nicaragua	127	(12)
Some New International Law: Namibia and Decolonization	139	(16)
Contesting Ownership on Land and at Sea	155	(16)
Some Unfinished Business	171	(12)
Reparations: Nicaragua and Iran	183	(12)
Court versus Council	195	(10)
Was It ``Worth the Trouble''?	205	(12)
Rounding Out the Century	217	(10)
To Court to Ban the Bomb?	227	(8)
Sources and Suggestions: A Bibliography	235	(26)
Chronology	261	(38)
Index	299	(12)
About the Author	311