{"product_id":"seventy-years-of-the-international-law-commission-drawing-a-balance-for-the-future-9789004434264","title":"Seventy Years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeventy Years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future brings together voices from academia and practice to celebrate and critically evaluate the work of the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC) over the past seventy years. The edited volume draws on the events commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the Commission, which took place in New York and Geneva in May and July 2018. At a time when multilateral law-making has become increasingly challenging, the edited volume appraises the role of one the most important driving forces behind the codification of international law and discusses the ILC’s future contribution to the development of international law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword  Notes on Contributors    Introduction   Secretariat of the International Law Commission    PART 1 Drawing a Balance for the Future: the New York Conversation     SECTION 1  The Commission and the Sixth Committee: Structural Challenges     Introductory Remarks by Eduardo Valencia-Ospina, Chair of the International Law Commission at Its Seventieth Session   Presentation by François Alabrune, Director of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, France   Presentation by Mahmoud D. Hmoud, Member of the International Law Commission   Presentation by Janine Felson, Deputy Permanent Representative of Belize to the United Nations   Presentation by Ernest Petrič, Member of the International Law Commission     SECTION 2  The Commission and the Sixth Committee: Reflections on the Interaction in the Past and the Future     Introductory Remarks by Burhan Gafoor, Chair of the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly at Its Seventy-Second Session   Presentation by Evgeny Zagaynov, Director of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation   Presentation by Concepción Escobar Hernández, Member of the International Law Commission   Presentation by Angel Horna, Legal Adviser, Permanent Mission of Peru to the United Nations   Presentation by Hussein A. Hassouna, Member of the International Law Commission    PART 2  Drawing a Balance for the Future: the Geneva Symposium     Introductory Remarks by Georg Nolte, Chair of the International Law Commission at Its Sixty-Ninth Session     SECTION 3  The Commission and Its Impact     Opening Remarks by Pedro Comissário Afonso   Alejandro Rodiles, The International Law Commission and Change: Not Tracing but Facing It   Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, The International Law Commission in a Mirror—Forms, Impact and Authority   Concluding Remarks by Pavel Šturma     SECTION 4  The Working Methods of the Commission     Opening Remarks by Aleksandar V. Gajić   Danae Azaria, The Working Methods of the International Law Commission: Adherence to Methodology, Commentaries and Decision-Making   Maurice Kamto, The Working Methods of the International Law Commission   Concluding Remarks by Shinya Murase     SECTION 5  The Function of the Commission: How Much Identifying Existing Law, How Much Proposing New Law?     Opening Remarks by Davinia Aziz   Yifeng Chen, Between Codification and Legislation: a Role for the International Law Commission as an Autonomous Law-Maker   Ineta Ziemele, The Functions of the International Law Commission: Identifying Existing Law or Proposing New Law?   Concluding Remarks by Sean D. Murphy     SECTION 6  The Changing Landscape of International Law     Opening Remarks by Elinor Hammarsjköld   Hajer Gueldich, Challenges of Codification for the International Law Commission in a Changing Landscape of International Law   Keun-Gwan Lee, Recalibrating the Conception of Codification in the Changing Landscape of International Law   Concluding Remarks by Claudio Grossman Guiloff     SECTION 7   The Authority and the Membership of the Commission     Opening Remarks by Djamchid Momtaz   Zuzana Trávníčková, The International Law Commission and the International Law Codification Market   Mónica Pinto, The Authority and the Membership of the Commission in the Future  Concluding Remarks by Dire Tladi    PART 3  Celebratory Contributions on the Occasion of the Seventieth Anniversary of the Commission     SECTION 8   Commemorative Speeches Delivered in New York     Statement by Eduardo Valencia-Ospina, Chair of the International Law Commission at Its Seventieth Session (Spanish and English)   Statement by Miroslav Lajčák, President of the General Assembly of the United Nations at Its Seventy-Second Session   Statement by Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel   Statement by Burhan Gafoor, Chair of the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly at Its Seventy-Second Session   Statement by Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations (French and English)   Statement by Jennifer Newstead, Legal Adviser of the Department of State of the United States of America   Keynote Address by Nico Schrijver, President of the Institut de Droit international and Professor of Public International Law, Leiden University     SECTION 9   Commemorative Speeches Delivered in Geneva     Statement by Eduardo Valencia-Ospina, the Chair of the International Law Commission at Its Seventieth Session (Spanish and English)   Statement by Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel   Statement by Corinne Cicéron Bühler, Director of the Directorate for International Law and Legal Advisor of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (French and English)   Statement by Kate Gilmore, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights   Keynote Address by Abdulqawi A. 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