Research Outputs

View our special issue of the MJIL and other selected publications

This page contains links to the Open Access versions of the articles in our Special Issue on National Encounters with the International Court of Justice (2021) 21:3 Melbourne Journal of International Law 502-811 (ISSN: 1444-8610)  (for audio-visual recordings relating to this Special Issue, see Events).

National Encounters with the International Court of Justice

Resolving Disputes

The Impetus for Contentious Cases

Participation in Advisory Jurisdictions

Inside State Encounters

  • Margaret A Young, ‘Australia in the International Court of Justice’ in Madelaine Chiam and Alison Duxbury (eds) International Law and Australia: From Empire to the Contemporary World (Hart, 2025, forthcoming – published version to be available here soon)
  • Hilary Charlesworth, ‘Epilogue: Exit through the Gift Shop’ in Immi Tallgren (ed) Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023) 513-516
  • Margaret A Young, 'Fragmentation' in L. Rajamani and J. Peel (eds) Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (Oxford University Press, 2021) 85-101 https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198849155.003.0005 (Open Access submitted version: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3441535)
  • Hilary Charlesworth, ‘Australia in the International Order’ in Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2018) 425

    Relevant publications and resources are listed here.

    The Peace Palace Library Staff has prepared a ‘Research Guide on the International Court of Justice’.

    This Research Guide is intended as a starting point for research on the International Court of Justice. It provides the basic legal materials available in the Peace Palace Library, both in print and electronic format. Handbooks, leading articles, bibliographies, periodicals, serial publications and documents of interest are presented in the Selective Bibliography section.

    Other publications that have some relevance to international adjudication and Australia include:

  • Margaret A Young, ‘Systemic Integration of Obligations in an Era of Climate Change: Stability and Optimal Control’ (2025) British Yearbook of International Law (essay under review) available on SSRN at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5207460
  • Hilary Charlesworth ‘Feminist Futures in Human Rights’ in Nehal Bhuta (ed) Human Rights in Transition (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2024) 182-203
  • Hilary Charlesworth, ‘Visualizing the “Women, Peace and Security Agenda”’ in Philip Alston (ed) The Complexity of Human Rights: From Vernacularization to Quantification (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2024) 229-245
  • Margaret A Young contributed to the written statement of International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Environmental Law for the Advisory Opinion on Climate Obligations at the International Court of Justice (written statement submitted 19 March 2024; written response to statements of other states and organisations of 15 August 2024; written response to questions from the bench 20 December 2024)
  • Margaret A Young, Jacqueline Peel, Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb, Janine Felson, ‘ITLOS’ Climate Opinion: What’s its significance?’ MCF Discussion Paper (July 2024) https://www.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/4999627/MCF-Discussion-Paper_ITLOS-opinion_FINAL.pdf
  • Margaret A Young, ‘The role of human rights law in climate obligations’ Open Global Rights (8 March 2024) https://www.openglobalrights.org/role-human-rights-law-climate-obligations/
  • Hilary Charlesworth, ‘The Institut de Droit International in Today’s World’ in M. Kohen & I. Van der Heijden (eds) 150 Years of Contributing to International Law: The Institut de Droit International Sesquicentenary Book (Paris: Editions A. Pedone, 2023) 147-166
  • Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb and Margaret A Young, ‘Could the law of the sea be used to protect small island states from climate change?’ The Conversation (25 July 2023) https://theconversation.com/could-the-law-of-the-sea-be-used-to-protect-small-island-states-from-climate-change-208842
  • Margaret A Young and Markus Gehring, ‘The Climate Regime and Other Areas of Law’ (2023) 13 Climate Law 151-61 https://doi.org/10.1163/18786561-bja10046
  • Margaret A Young & Ella Vines, ‘Biodiversity Litigation in Australia’ in Guillaume Futhazar, Jona Razzaque and Sandrine Maljean-Dubois, Biodiversity Litigation (OUP, 2023) 33-62 https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865465.003.0002
  • Hilary Charlesworth, ‘Culture and Tradition in the International Human Rights System’ in G. Andreopoulos & C. Carey (eds) Justice and World Order: Reassessing Richard Falk’s Scholarship and Advocacy (Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2022) 45-63
  • Hilary Charlesworth, ‘Rituals and Ritualism in the International Human Rights System’ in N. Bhuta & F. Mégret (eds) The Struggle for Human Rights – Law, Politics, Practice: Essays in Honour of Philip Alston (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 202-224
  • Hilary Charlesworth, ‘The Travels of Human Rights: The UNESCO Human Rights Exhibition 1950-1953’ in Shane Chalmers & Sundhya Pahuja (eds) Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities , (Oxford & New York: Routledge,2021) 173-190
  • Laura Schuijers and Margaret A Young, ‘Climate Change Litigation in Australia: Law and Practice in the Sunburnt Country’ in Ivano Alogna, Christine Bakker & Jean-Pierre Gauci (eds) Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives (Brill, 2021) 47-78 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004447615_004
  • Douglas Guilfoyle, ‘Vale Judge James Crawford: A Model PhD Supervisor’ (2021) Opinio Juris
  • Simon Chesterman, ‘Scholar, Advocate, Judge: James Crawford 1948–2021’ (2021) The Interpreter
  • Margaret A Young, Invited keynote address, ‘2021 Climate Change, Law and Legal Education’ Conference, 26-27 February 2021 (Bond University) (online) https://bond.edu.au/files/5353 subsequently published in Margaret A Young, ‘Climate Change and Law: A Global Challenge for Legal Education’ (2021) 40(3) University of Queensland Law Journal 351-370 https://doi.org/10.38127/uqlj.v40i3.6045 (ISSN 1839-289X)
  • Julie Bishop, Richard Maude, Hilary Charlesworth, and Rory Medcalf, ‘Australia's Security and Rules-Based Order: Tracking a Decade of Policy Evolution', (2020) Lowy Institute
  • Hilary Charlesworth, ‘Australia’s Place at the Human Rights Table’ (2017) October Pursuit
  • Hilary Charlesworth,  ‘International Legal Encounters with Democracy’ (2017) 8(6) Global Policy 34
  • Hilary Charlesworth and Gillian Triggs, ‘Australia and the International Protection of Human Rights’ in Donald R Rothwell and Emily Crawford (eds) International Law in Australia (Thomson Reuters, 3rd ed, 2017) 117
  • Margaret A Young and Sebastian Rioseco Sullivan, ‘Evolution through the Duty to Cooperate: Implications of the Whaling Case at the International Court of Justice’ (2015) 16 Melbourne Journal International Law 311