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Series of notes from the International Court of Justice on Bulgaria's Preliminary Objections in the Aerial Incident of 27 July 1955 (Israel v. Bulgaria) case, relating to the destruction by Bulgarian anti-aircraft defence of an aircraft belonging to an Israeli airline. Also includes HL's observations on the Preliminary Objections.

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Draft copy of the Joint Dissenting Opinion by HL, [Vi Kyuin] Wellington Koo and Sir Percy Spender in the Aerial Incident of 27 July 1955 (Israel v. Bulgaria) case, relating to the destruction by Bulgarian anti-aircraft defence of an aircraft belonging to an Israeli airline. Also includes notes on the judgement and a draft copy of a separate Dissenting Opinion by Sir Percy Spender.

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Annotated draft of the Joint Dissenting Opinion by HL, [Vi Kyuin] Wellington Koo and Sir Percy Spender in the Aerial Incident of 27 July 1955 (Israel v. Bulgaria) case, relating to the destruction by Bulgarian anti-aircraft defence of an aircraft belonging to an Israeli airline (copies in English and French).

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Slightly annotated printer's copy of the Joint Dissenting Opinion by HL, [Vi Kyuin] Wellington Koo and Sir Percy Spender in the Aerial Incident of 27 July 1955 (Israel v. Bulgaria) case, relating to the destruction by Bulgarian anti-aircraft defence of an aircraft belonging to an Israeli airline.

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Series of International Court of Justice notes and amendments by HL to the draft judgment on the Guardianship of infants (Netherlands v Sweden) case, relating to a Dutch child [Marie Elisabeth Boll] being brought up in Sweden under Swedish law for the protection of children. Some annotations by HL.

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International Court of Justice note of Observations and Submissions from France on the case of the Compagnie du Port, des Quais et des Entrepôts de Beyrouth and Société Radio-Orient (France v. Lebanon), relating to actions taken by the Lebanese Government against two French companies.

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International Court of Justice papers on the Constitution of the Maritime Safety Committee of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization. Includes a Request for an Advisory Opinion and written statements, annotated by HL and rough notes by HL.

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on the case brought by the British Government against Albania over damage suffered by British warships which had struck mines in the Corfu Channel in 1946. Correspondence is mainly between HL, the Foreign Office Legal Department, particularly Sir [William] Eric Beckett, Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office, and the International Court of Justice. Includes Observations and Submissions from the British Government, HL’s and Beckett’s suggestions on the Draft Pleadings...

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Pages noted as having been discarded, as they were too critical, from the ms of "Development of International Law of the International Court" [itself an update of HL's "The Development of International Law by the Permanent Court of International Justice", 1934]. Includes both original pages and later copies [? for HL's Collected Papers].

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Correspondence with representatives of the International Court of Justice, including the Registrar, Julio López-Oliván and the President, Green Hackworth, and also with HL's publishers on the book. Also includes some revisions, the publishing contract and royalty statements.

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List of candidates nominated, with their curricula vitae.

Scope and Contents Papers relating to elections to the International Court of Justice, including: records of meetings of the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council on the elections, Oct 1954, with a legal department note on communications between the two about the election results. Also includes a letter from Oxford University Press on publication of the collected papers of James Brierly, notes on immunities and privileges and a note from HL on trying to find an apartment at The Hague...

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International Court of Justice notes on automatic reservation [to the acceptance by a state of the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court], with some rough notes by HL.

Scope and Contents Tributes to HL including: "Sir Hersch Lauterpacht and the International Court" by Wolfgang Friedmann; tribute by Edvard Hambro; "Hersch Lauterpacht, the Scholar as Judge" by Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice; "The Contribution of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht to the development of International Law" by Philip Jessup and Richard Baxter; "Sir Hersch Lauterpacht's concept of the task of the international judge" by Shabtai Rosenne [earlier Sefton Rowson]; paper by Norman Bentwich, Emeritus Professor of...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Research notes, correspondence, papers and copies assembled by Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, initially for his 5 volume edition of HL's Collected Papers, 1970-2004, but mainly for his biography of HL, "The Life of Hersch Lauterpacht", 2010. Includes a few originals which Elihu had taken out of the main sequence of HL's own papers to work on and could not easily be replaced, particularly HL's memorandum on the draft Peace Act, 1934 (LAUT 7/32), the Nuremberg Indictment (LAUT 7/28), the draft...

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Includes copies of various papers by HL: lecture on "The Legal Aspect", 1937, from a collection entitled "Peaceful Change, an international problem"; paper on "The Judicial Settlement of International Disputes"; observations on amendments to the Statute of the International Court of Justice, relating to the election of judges, 1952 and 1953.

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Rough notes by HL and International Court of Justice papers relating to the Interhandel (Switzerland v. United States of America) case, on shares owned by the Swiss Interhandel company, which had been confiscated by the United States in 1942 on the grounds that they were really owned by a German company. Includes a copy of HL's Separate Opinion, procedural notes, and annotated records of public sittings of the court.

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International Court of Justice notes on Preliminary Objections raised by the United States to the Interhandel (Switzerland v. United States of America) case, on shares owned by the Swiss Interhandel company, which had been confiscated by the United States in 1942 on the grounds that they were really owned by a German company. Includes notes by HL on the draft judgement.

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Includes: letter from Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice on electing an Indian Judge to the Court; draft of a report by Louis Sohn for the International Law Association's Committee on the Charter of the United Nations, on improvements to the process of nominating and electing judges of the Court; note from HL [to 1st Lord McNair] on the need for an investigation into the Court's ineffectiveness.

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Papers from HL's professional legal career, including articles, memoranda, Opinions, papers for the British legal team at the Nuremberg Trials, and papers relating to cases before the Permanent Court of International Justice, and after the war, its successor the International Court of Justice.

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Draft of HL's Separate Opinion on the Certain Norwegian Loans (France v Norway) case, relating to loans made to Norway by French bondholders, and whether they should be paid in Norwegian kroner or according to their value in gold, and an International Court of Justice note on the case.

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Note [? by HL] on typical recent decisions of the Court, particularly the difficulty for a Great Power in winning a case, France's disadvantage, the advantage for Scandinavian countries and the chances for cases with colonial elements.

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Papers of the International Court of Justice relating to the case of a German-born man, Friedrich Nottebohm, who had acquired Liechtenstein nationality by naturalisation, but had his property seized by Guatemala during the war as a German citizen.

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Includes photographs showing HL, particularly a series of portrait photographs of him in his judge's robes.

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Copy of HL's Provisional Report on revision of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, with related papers and correspondence, mainly with Oscar Schachter [Director of the United Nations general legal division].