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Acccepting the Hague prize - 18 June 2004 -- The president of the International Court of Justice -- A role for the International Court of Justice in crisis management? -- Article 95 of the charter revisited -- Article 27 of the statute of the International Court of Justice revisited -- International Court of Justice: practice direction on agents, counsel and advocates -- Article 31 of the statute of the International Court of Justice revisited: the judge ad hoc -- Article 59 of the statute of the International Court of Justice revisited -- The framework agreement as the basis for the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice and some problems of language -- Unilateral applications to the International Court of Justice : history revisited -- The general list of the International Court of Justice -- The secretary-general of the united nations and the International Court of Justice -- Visit to the site by the International Court -- Fact-finding before the International Court of Justice -- Controlling interlocutory aspects of proceedings in the International Court of Justice -- Counter-claims in the International Court of justice revisited -- The Jaffa-Jerusalem railway arbitration (1922) -- Some points of contact between the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice -- The jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court -- Antecedents of the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court -- Reflections on automatic treaty succession -- What is a treaty? a signatory's intentions-Qatar v Bahrain -- When is a final clause not a final clause? -- On multilingual interpretation -- The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982 : the application of Part XI : an element of background -- The United Nations, the oceans and some geography -- Historic waters in the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea -- Breach of treaty in the codification of the law of state responsibility -- State responsibility : festina lente -- Decisions of the International Court and the law of state responsibility -- The role of controversy in international legal development -- Codification revisited after fifty years -- Three central elements of modern international law -- Self-defence and the non-use of force : some random thoughts -- Israel : some legal aspects of the transition from mandate to independence : December 1947-15 May 1948.