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As exemplified in the work of the World Court during the Presidency of Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2009
International law can never be a panacea, for law is only one aspect of the immensely complex as well as immensely urgent problem that faces our civilization today. But international law is, if only one aspect, nevertheless an essential aspect.
R. Y. Jennings, The Progress of International Law’, BYbIL, 34 (1958), p. 334, at p. 355INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
It is an honour to have a place in this tribute to Judge Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings, who is by nature as much scholar as practitioner, and whose outstanding professionalism has been of continuing guidance in my attempts to grasp the essence of equitable maritime boundary delimitation and other issues of international law.
The international law of the sea has taken an important part in Sir Robert's approach to the development of international law and its role in a modern multicultural world, which involves the inescapable evolution of that law towards universality in terms of, as he put it, not uniformity but rather ‘richness of variety and diversity’. As he remarked, the law of the sea has always been ‘a specially significant part of the entire international law system’.
The great economic and political importance of traditional law of the sea, as emphasized by the then Professor Jennings in 1963, found adequate reflection in his excellent General Course delivered at The Hague Academy in 1967 and in a major article on the continental shelf published in 1969.
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