The interview contribution will be featured in the forthcoming Volume 27 of the UN Yearbook.
On 30 April 2024, an interview with Professor Giorgio Gaja was conducted virtually for the forthcoming Volume 27 of the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (UNYB). The interview contribution will be transcribed in text form and will be featured as a part of the thematic forum for Volume 27 on ‘Assessing the International Law Commission: the past, present and future’.
Currently, the UN Yearbook is working towards the production of Volume 27, which will feature a special thematic forum of contributions on ‘Assessing the International Law Commission: The Past, Present and Future’. For more information on the UNYB, including guidelines for the submissions, please visit here.
Professor Giorgio Gaja is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Florence and an eminent scholar in the field of international law. Notably, he had formerly served as a Judge at the International Court of Justice from 2012 to 2021. Professor Gaja was also a member of the International Law Commission, from 1999 – 2011, wherein he was the special rapporteur on the topic of ‘Responsibility of International Organizations‘. In his interview contribution for the UNYB, Professor Gaja provided insights on his distinguished work and legacy in the field of international law, while fielding a few specific questions on his time at the Commission and at the World Court. The interview for the UNYB was conducted by Dr Kathrin Maria Scherr, co-Editor-in-Chief, and, Sai Sathyanarayanan Venkatesh, Managing Editor.
Volume 27 will feature a thematic forum of contributions that critically engage with and examine the work of the International Law Commission, in light of the recently concluded 75th anniversary of the body. This interview with Professor Gaja will be one of the two, special format contributions to be featured in Volume 27. The other being a first-of-its-kind conversation interview with Sir Michael Wood and Professor Alain Pellet, both of whom had exchanged their views and opinions on the work of the Commission amongst other related points of discussion. This conversation was convened virtually in April 2024 and was moderated by Dr Omri Sender, who is the Forum Editor for Volume 27 and is also an Editorial Advisory Board member of the UNYB. In addition to this thematic section, Volume 27 will also feature a select number of articles that relate to the general editorial line of the publication (Law and Practice of the United Nations and Legal Issues related to the Goals of the United Nations). The full edition is expected to be published and available online by the end of this year, with the printed version to be ready by early 2025.
For more information on the UNYB, including past volumes of the publication, please visit here.