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This book provides a full overview of the judicial activity of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) during the five-year period 1997 - 2001, following the format of a previous volume describing the decisions from 1987 - 1996. Each chapter opens with a summary of the judicial activity of the ICJ during a given year, using the General List of ICJ cases, pleadings filed, Orders, Judgements and Advisory Opinions issued and hearings held at the Peace Palace to describe the statistics on the docket of the ICJ. The sections in each chapter describe the facts of a particular case, the arguments of the parties involved and the decision of the ICJ, together with the commentary by the author, a former ICJ staff lawyer. The book includes a limited number of reprints from the American Journal of International Law, together with lots of new material

The Israeli-Soviet oil arbitration in Moscow has evoked world-wide criticism for not being up to the standards of a fair and impartial proceeding. Not only do the results of the award, dated July 3, 1958, appear to be unsatisfactory, but the award also does not sufficiently deal with the legal questions submitted to the tribunal. The latter thereby missed the opportunity of contributing to the development of an important legal aspect of international transactions, namely, the application of the force majeure clause. This note will be primarily concerned with that point, as well as with some international law aspects arising out of the arbitration.

The Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes Between States and Nationals of Other States (the Convention) provides for a truly international arbitration machinery, operating under the auspices of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).