Author Description

Introduction / Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Dai Tamada -- Methodologies and motivations: was Japan's whaling programme for purposes of scientific research? / Caroline E. Foster -- From the requirement of reasonableness to a 'comply and explain' rule: the standard of review in the whaling judgment / Shotaro Hamamoto -- The whaling convention and thorny issues of interpretation / Malgosia Fitzmaurice -- The 'margin of appreciation' in the use of exemptions in international law: comparing the ICJ whaling judgment and the case law of the ECtHR / Theodore Christakis -- Unfavourable but unavoidable procedures: procedural aspects of the whaling case / Dai Tamada -- Roads not taken, opportunities missed: procedural and jurisdictional questions Sidestepped in the Whaling Judgment / Christian J. Tams -- Whaling judgment and the challenges of dynamic treaty regimes / Mika Hayashi -- IWC and the ICJ judgment / Joji Morishita -- The whaling case: an Australian perspective / Donald R Rothwell -- After the whaling in the Antarctic judgment: its lessons and prospects from a Japanese perspective / Hironobu Sakai -- Science in the court!: the role of science in 'Whaling in the Antarctic' / Anthony Press -- Conclusion: the judgment, its implications and prospects / Akiho Shibata -- Conference report on 'Whaling in the Antarctic: the ICJ judgment and its implications', 31st May-1st June 2014, Kobe University, Japan / Yuri Takaya