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2000 Austl. Int'l L.J. 271 (2000)
The Court in 2000

handle is hein.journals/austintlj17 and id is 287 raw text is: [20001 Australian International Law Journal THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE THE COURT IN 2000 Snapshot At present, the Court is composed as follows: Gilbert Guillaume P; Shi Jiuyong V-P; Shigeru Oda, Mohammed Bedjaoui, Raymond Ranjeva, G~za Herczegh, Carl-August Fleischhauer, Abdul G. Koroma, Vladlen S Vereshchetin, Rosalyn Higgins, Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren, Pieter H Kooijmans, Francisco Rezek, Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh and Thomas Buergenthal JJ. * On 7 February 2000, the Court elected Guillaume J as President and Shi J as Vice-President for a three-year term. * Following the resignation of Stephen M Schwebel J effective from 29 February 2000, the General Assembly and Security Council on 2 March 2000 elected Mr Thomas Buergenthal for the remainder of Schwebel J's term, which will expire on 5 February 2006. On 10 February 2000, the Court elected Mr Philippe Couvreur as Registrar of the Court for a seven-year term following the resignation of Mr Eduardo Valencia-Ospina. The Deputy-Registrar is Mr Jean- Jacques Arnaldez. * From January - November 2000, the Court held 29 public sessions and a large number of private, administrative and judicial meetings. * During the same period as above, the Court inter alia rendered a Judgment on the merits in Case Concerning Kasikili/Sedudu Island (Botswana/Namibia) and a Judgment on its jurisdiction in the Case Concerning Aerial Incident of 10 August 1999 (Pakistan v India). It made an Order indicating provisional measures in the Case Concerning Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v Uganda). On 31 July 2000, 23 cases remained on the Court's docket and they come from all over the world. Five of them are between African States, two between Asian States, ten between European States, one between Latin American States, and five are of an intercontinental character. The hearings for Qatar v Bahrain, the longest running case in the Court, began in 1991 and were fmalised in June 2000 after five weeks of oral argument. The Court has retired to prepare its judgment in accordance with its internal judicial practice. * The Court's budget for 2000 is approximately US$10 million, which

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