Professor Hugh Thirlway

About/Bio

Professor Thirlway was for many years Principal Legal Secretary of the International Court of Justice, and subsequently Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Legal Studies, Geneva. His numerous writings focus mainly on the work of the ICJ, and on the sources of international law.

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EJIL Debate. Thirlway’s Rejoinder

I am grateful to Professor d’Aspremont for his interesting and courteous response to my somewhat critical piece. I think we agree . . . that there is plenty on which we agree to differ! However, may I mention a few points? A minor linguistic matter: the terms ‘the logic of sources’ and ‘the logic of interpretation’…

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EJIL Debate: A whale or a weasel? The Antarctic Whaling case, and a reply to Professor d’Aspremont (Part II)

Part II of a two-part post in the discussion of Jean d’Aspermont’s article, ‘The International Court of Justice, the Whales, and the Blurring of the Lines between Sources and Interpretation‘.   What did Japan say – and what did it not say? [Cont.] [...] What then does this single reference given tell us?…

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EJIL Debate: A whale or a weasel? The Antarctic Whaling case, and a reply to Professor d’Aspremont (Part I)

Part I of a two-part post opening the discussion of Jean d'Aspermont's article, 'The International Court of Justice, the Whales, and the Blurring of the Lines between Sources and Interpretation'. The article by Professor Jean d’Aspremont, 'The International Court of Justice, the Whales, and the Blurring of the Lines between Sources…

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