@article{1445504,
      recid = {1445504},
      author = {Ramcharan, Bertrand.},
      title = {Modernizing the role of the International Court of Justice  /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxi, 195 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book discusses the future role of the International  Court of Justice (ICJ) in a world facing survival  challenges. It discusses threats such as climate change,  environmental degradation and pandemics, and argues that in  the future the ICJ will need to carry out judicial,  security and protection functions as it is the only organ  of the United Nations (UN) that can discharge such  functions in view of its independence and expertise. The  author proposes that the ICJ can apply a hitherto unused  jurisdictional provision in Article 36 of its statute that  allows it to deal with "All Matters Specially Provided for  in the UN Charter" and presents three examples of issues  that would require the urgent attention of the ICJ: vaccine  equity in a global pandemic, climate disaster, and mass  movements of people across frontiers due to climate change  and environmental degradation. Bertrand Ramcharan (Guyana)  is a Barrister-at-Law of Lincoln's Inn with a Doctorate in  international law from the London School of Economics (LSE)  and the Diploma in International Law of the Hague Academy  of International Law. He was LSE International Law Scholar  and has been Commissioner of the International Commission  of Jurists and a Member of the Permanent Court of  Arbitration. He has also been Director of the Research  Centre of the Hague Academy of International Law (The Right  to Life), Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, and  Chancellor of the University of Guyana. He is a former  Chief speech-writer of the UN Secretary-General, and has  performed the functions of UN High Commissioner for Human  Rights. His doctoral thesis was on the approach of the  International Law Commission to the codification and  progressive development of international law.--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1445504},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-519-5},
}