Two Remarkable Men Have Left the International Court of Justice

Abstract

In February 2000, two distinguished judges, Judge Christopher G. Weeramantry and Judge Stephen M. Schwebel, resigned from the International Court of Justice as respectively Vice-President and President. Both men left a clearly recognizable stamp on the Court's case law, although their trademark was very different. What they had in common, however, was that they wrote a great number of highly interesting and thought-provoking opinions, sometimes of considerable length. In this article, the intention has been to let both judges speak for themselves as members of the Court, as representatives of the judicial branch which they both held in high esteem.