III Points of Substantive Law, Division A: The Law Of The Sea, Preface (2009)

The present article is intended to be the penultimate in this series. It is now 20 years since the author embarked on the task of completing and continuing the series of articles from the pen of Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice, commenting on the decisions of the International Court of Justice, which had been published in this Year Book between 1950 and 1959.1 There was thus at the outset in 1989 a backlog of some 30 years’ jurisprudence to be dealt with; and the author’s first modest proposal was to examine this material so as to provide, with Sir Gerald’s articles, a...