Jan 1, 1981
While this study is neither government-sponsored nor government-backed, it is mostly the work of lawyers who do their reserve duty in the Israel Defence Forces as legal advisers to the military commanders in the administered areas.
Normally, they engage in private practice as advocates before the ordinary courts of Israel; but for a few weeks each year they perform their military duties by devoting their legal abilities and acumen to fostering the Rule of Law in the administered areas.
Many of them are members or supporters of the Israel National Section of the International Commission of Jurists — whose objects they promote by keeping a constant and jealous watch for any infringement or diminution of the Rule of Law at the hands of military men and administrators not trained in the law.
If they have not always succeeded, it is because security considerations, which are not within their competence or expertise, have been regarded as overriding — as indeed they are under the provisions of international law.
While all of those legal contributors will have to remain anonymous, it is my pleasant duty to mention at least the most active and outstanding among them, Joel Singer, the head of the International Law Branch of the Military Advocate-General’s Unit, without whose devotion and scholarship this study could never have crystallized.
Israel-the rule of law in the administered areas-thematic report-1981-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Jan 1, 1981
The activities of the International Commission of Jurists in the four years 1977-1980 have continued to be directed on the one hand to the positive promotion of human rights and their legal protection, and on the other to studying and publicising violations of human rights and the Rule of Law.
This report seeks to sumarise the main ICJ activities during these four years under a number of different headings. More detailed information on these and other topics will be found in the appendices.
It may be said that during this period the ICJ has taken a more structural approach to human rights problems, as will be apparent in particular from the regional seminars, the content of some of the special reports, and its activities pursuant to its consultative status (Appendix A).
ICJ-report on activities 1977 1980-annual report-1980-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Jan 1, 1981
Our ambitions were relatively modest when we started the planning of this symposium. We hoped to arrange a public meeting in order to prove to ourselves as well as to the Finnish legal community that the Finnish section of the ICJ still exists and is capable of functioning.
The Finnish national group was established in 1956. Unfortunately there has been no activity in the course of the last 13 years. As a result, the work and the role of the ICJ has remained rather unknown to Finnish jurists.
Thanks to the active encouragement of Mr. Hans Thoolen, we managed to re-activate the Finnish section in the spring of 1980. Since both the President and the Vice-President of the Finnish section had died during the years of non-activity, a whole new board was elected with Prof. Tore Modeen as President, Prof. Mikael Hidén as Vice-President and Mr. Christian Reims, Mr. Gustaf Möller and myself as members.
independence of judges and lawyers-conference report-1981-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Dec 1, 1980
Impunidad, crimen de lesa humanidad y desaparición forzada.
ICJ Review-25-1980-spa (La Revista en Español, PDF)
Dec 1, 1980
The purpose of the Review is to focus attention on the problems in regard to which lawyers can make their contribution to society in their respective areas of influence and to provide them with the necessary information and data.
