Decisions of international courts and arbitrators, as well as judgements of national courts, are fundamental elements of modern public international law. 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 60 years ago (originally under the title of Annual Digest and Reports of Public International Law Cases), covers the years from 1919. Four volumes a year, each of some 700 pages, is envisaged. The cases are drawn from every...

Volume 112 contains the full text of the important Tadic opinion and judgment of May 7, 1997 and the sentencing judgment of July 14, 1997 from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In addition there are five cases from Australia on aboriginal land rights between 1988 and 1995. This volume also contains a variety of different jurisdiction decisions concerning sexual/gender discrimination.

Among the cases reported in Volume 117 is the ICJ 1998 ruling on preliminary objections in the Lockerbie decision relating to the trial before a Scottish court in the Netherlands, along with additional materials. Six leading cases of the ECJ concerning the implementation of United Nations sanctions are also reported. In addition the United Nations Compensation Commission Egyptian Workers' Claims case, and the Sandline and Papua New Guinea 1998 arbitration under the UNCITRAL rules are reported. Two decisions of the International Tribunal for the Law of Sea are also included.

Among the cases reported in Volume 119 are Pinochet decisions from English, Spanish, Belgian, and Luxembourg courts. The volume also includes an important ICSID arbitral award in Metalclad (and British Columbia decision), and the arbitration tribunal maritime delimitation Phase Two of the Eritrea/Yemen dispute. Finally, Volume 119 reports the Southern Bluefin Tuna (Australia and New Zealand v. Japan) arbitration tribunal award of August 2000.

Volume 116 reports the 1997 "Danube dam" case concerning the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia). Also included is the hitherto unreported decision of the English High Court on act of State and the effect of Security Council resolutions in the latest phase of Kuwait Airways Corp. v. Iraqi Airways Co. Several important decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on State responsibility for human rights actions are reported. Finally, there is a group of newly translated cases on State immunity and international organization immunity from Austria, France, Portugal and...