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Beyond the Control Paradigm? International Responsibility and the European Union (2013)
Journal Article
Hernández, G. (online). Beyond the Control Paradigm? International Responsibility and the European Union. The Cambridge yearbook of European legal studies, 643-668. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474200349.ch-022

From the perspective of public international law, the legal personality of the European Union (EU) carries with it the possibility for it to exercise rights and to bear obligations on the international plane. Its quasi-federal structure, however, req... Read More about Beyond the Control Paradigm? International Responsibility and the European Union.

A Reluctant Guardian: The International Court of Justice and the Concept of 'International Community' (2013)
Journal Article
Hernández, G. (2013). A Reluctant Guardian: The International Court of Justice and the Concept of 'International Community'. British Yearbook of International Law, 83(1), 13-60. https://doi.org/10.1093/bybil/brt003

The concept of ‘international community’, nebulously defined at best, has the potential to generate specific and far-reaching legal effects if understood in a certain manner. In this article, the author asserts that the understanding of the judicial... Read More about A Reluctant Guardian: The International Court of Justice and the Concept of 'International Community'.

The Role of the International Court of Justice in the Development of the Institutional Law of the United Nations (2013)
Book Chapter
Sloan, J., & Hernández, G. (2013). The Role of the International Court of Justice in the Development of the Institutional Law of the United Nations. In C. Tams, & J. Sloan (Eds.), The development of international law by the International Court of Justice (197-235). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199653218.003.0010

This chapter focuses on the influence of the Court on the development of the law relating to the UN. It considers the impact of the Court's findings with respect to the interpretation of the UN Charter, and the functioning and status of the UN as an... Read More about The Role of the International Court of Justice in the Development of the Institutional Law of the United Nations.