The Legacy of the Wimbledon Case - (Queen Mary Studies in International Law) (Hardcover)

About the Book

2023 marked the 100th anniversary of the first contentious case decided by the Permanent Court of International Justice. The contributions to this book address the legal problems decided by the PCIJ and seek to examine the impact of the Wimbledon judgment on the development of international law and its continuing relevance.

Book Synopsis

The book addresses the impact of the first judgment of the 'World Court' on the development of international law and its continuing relevance. The contributions to this book discuss the legal issues decided by the PCIJ in the Wimbledon case. In the Wimbledon judgment, the Court referred to the problems that are still important both for procedural and substantive international law, and which attract the attention of states, courts and the academia today. These include: state sovereignty, sources of international law, interpretation of legal rights and obligations following from treaties and custom, 'objective regimes', 'self-contained regimes', neutrality in armed conflicts, the status of international waterways, as well as the issues of jurisdiction such as third-party participation in international adjudication, or locus standi for the protection of community interests.

About the Author

Roman Kwiecień is Professor of Law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He holds a Chair of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration. His research focuses on issues of statehood, sources of international law, the use of force, dispute resolution and legal philosophy. Professor Kwiecień served as an arbitrator at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (2018-2024) and serves as an arbitrator at the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (since 2019).

Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice holds a Chair of Public International Law at the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London. Since 2019 she has been elected an Associate Member of the Institue de Droit International and in 2021 she was awarded the Doctorate Honoris Causa of the University of Neuchâtel. She specialises in international environmental law, the law of treaties, and indigenous peoples. She is Editor in Chief of the journal International Community Law Review.