In the first study devoted to the World Court, Manley Hudson was largely concerned with the formal steps leading to its establishment and its organization. He placed the Court in historical perspective by linking it with the fruitless efforts at the 1907 Hague Peace Conference to set up a Permanent Court of Arbitral Justice.

In determining the location of a boundary, international as well as national tribunals have in the past been reluctant to place much evidentiary value on maps, regardless of their number or designation.

It is now over ten years since the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its Protocol were completed.

While the world is experiencing its industrial revolution, demand for the efficient exploitation of global natural resources is making states increasingly interdependent.

There is widespread interest in the United Nations in fostering international co-operation in outer space for two basic reasons: first, to maximize co-operation between the two major space Powers despite their political differences; and second, to encourage the increased peaceful uses of outer space to benefit all countries irrespective of the stage of their economic or scientific development.