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1 Hague Just. J. 1 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/hgejcejl1 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL The State of International Law in The Hague Harry Post* In the half year since December 2005 when the Hague Justice Portal (Portail Judiciaire de La Haye) went 'live', the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the other international tribunals and international organisations based in The Hague produced a remarkable number of judgements and decisions. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has been particularly productive, but it was by no means the only active court in The Hague. Under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), perhaps a little less in the limelight of the media, also a number of significant decisions have been formulated. Apart from the judicial organisations, the 'legislative' and 'executive' international organisations based in The Hague, from EUROPOL to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), have also performed with remarkable abundance and salience. With the ratification recently of a number of African states, the OPCW now covers 180 countries (or 98% of the world's population). In this first editorial for the new Hague Justice Journal-Journal Judiciaire de La Haye (HJJ-JJH), I will only list some of the most remarkable decisions taken by Hague courts and tribunals in these six months. Further attention is paid to them in this first issue of the HJJ-JJH. 1. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW Many ofthe judgements and other decisions ofthe ICTY not only further clarify the state of international criminal law but also provide invaluable sources of research for historians or political scientists studying the events that have devastated the Balkans in the 1990s. Examples of such judgements are those in the cases ofNaser Orid, who was a senior commander of the Muslim forces defending Srebrenica, or Milomir Stakid, considered responsible for the atrocities in the Prijedor area. On 22nd March 2006, the Appeals Chamber upheld the conviction of Stakid. In 2003 the Trial Chamber found him responsible for over 1500 killings, of which 486 victims were identified. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, the highest Harry Post is General Editor of the HJJ-JJH and Editor-in-chief of the Hague Justice Portal. HAGUE JUSTICE JOURNAL / JOURNAL JUDICIAIRE DE LA HAYE, VOL. 1, NO. 1 (2006), PP 1-5. © HAGUE ACADEMIC COALITION 2006.

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