International Commission of Jurists
ICJ Journal vol. II no. 1 (1959)

ICJ Journal vol. II no. 1 (1959)

May 1, 1959

This legal Journal is devoted to the administration of justice within different countries. It also strives to deepen understanding of and widen agreement on the principles of the rule of law in all countries.

This edition coincides with the International Congress of Jurists held in Delhi in January 1959 under the aegis of the ICJ. The 185 judges, lawyers and professors of law who came from 53 countries to take part in the Congress unanimously recognized that freedom and justice were two closely connected concepts deeply rooted in the mind of every human being. Moreover the Congress, in its well-known Declaration of Delhi, reasserted the Rule of Law.

This edition features:

  • Editorial: The rule of law in a changing world
  • International Congress of Jurists, New Delhi, India
      -The Declaration of Delhi
      -Conclusions of the Congress
      -A questionnaire on the rule of law
      -Summary of the working paper on the rule of law
      -Reflections in the Declaration of Dehli, by Vivian Bose
      -The background to the Congress of New Delhi, by Norman S. Marsh
  • Articles
      The layman and the law in England, by Sir Carleton Allen, Q.C.
      Legal aspects of civil liberties in the United States and recent developments
      Notes: Judicial independence in the Philippines, by Vincente J. Francisco
  • Book reviews:
      -Fundamental Law of Pakistan, by A.K. Brohi
      -Journal of the Indian Law Institute, Volume I, Nos. 1 and 2, by the Indian Law Institute
      -The Burma Law Institute Journal, Volume I, No. 1, by the Burma Law Institute
      -The Press in Authoritarian Countries, by the International Press Institute
      -Contempt of Court; Legal Penalties: the need for revision, by ‘Justice’ (British Section of the ICJ)
  • Note on publications of the ICJ

ICJ Journal-II-1-1959-eng (full text in English, PDF)
ICJ Journal-II-1-1959-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)

 

Injustice the regime

Injustice the regime

Jan 1, 1959

Documentary evidence of the systematic violation of legal rights in the Soviet Zone of Germany from 1954 to 1958.

This edition is an extract of the document collection “Unrecht als System”, part III. The document collection “Injustice The Regime” reveals the causes of this stream of refugees constantly flowing to the West. It makes it clear, especially to jurists, what almost unimaginable consequences result from the abuse of law as a means for the achievement of political aims.

Statements made by administrative offices, courts, and leading personalities in the Soviet Zone are reproduced herein to deliver an objective report on the judicial and administrative practice of the Soviet Zone, and to help the reader in gaining a true impression of a system of law, whose representatives assiduously ignore the violations of law and arbitrary actions committed in the name of ‘socialist justice’. which their so eagerly propagate.

East Germany-rights soviet occupation-report-1959-eng (full text in English, PDF)
East Germany-rights soviet occupation-report-1959-fra (full text in French, PDF)

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