Seventy Years of the International Law Commission

The United Nations

Foreword

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. Yusuf, President of the International Court of Justice