Decisions of international courts and arbitrators, as well as judgments of national courts, are fundamental elements of modern public international law. The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of such decisions. It is an absolutely essential work of reference. The series, established sixty years ago (originally under the title of Annual Digest and Reports of Public International Law Cases), covers the years from 1919. The cases are drawn from every relevant jurisdiction, international and national....

Volume 114 of the International Law Reports contains the first available report of the recent large arbitration award in October 1998 involving the Government of the Republic of Yemen and the Government of the State of Eritrea. This was an unresolved border dispute that also included an overlapping maritime claim. A selection of United Nations Human Rights Committee cases from 1989 to 1994 are also included in Volume 114. Sovereignty and diplomatic immunity cases are also featured from the United States, Australian and English courts.

Among the consular relations cases reported in Volume 118 are the International Court of Justice decisions on the request for provisional measures in the Case Concerning the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Paraguay v. United States) in 1998, the LaGrand Case (Germany v. United States) in 1999, and the corresponding decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Human rights cases include the 1999 decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Waite and Kennedy v. Germany. Also included are fifteen important decisions of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.