particular state, but rather to the rules generally accepted by municipal
legal systems which, in this case, recognise the idea of the limited company.
Equity and international law
147
Apart from the recourse to the procedures and institutions of municipal
legal systems to reinforce international law, it is also possible to see in a
144
See e.g. the
Gabˇc´ıkovo–Nagymaros Project
case, ICJ Reports, 1997, pp. 7, 76; 116 ILR,
p. 1, and the
Brcko
case, 36 ILM, 1997, pp. 396, 422.
145
ICJ Reports, 1970, p. 3; 46 ILR, p. 178.
146
ICJ Reports, 1970, p. 37; 46 ILR, p. 211. See also generally the
Abu Dhabi
arbitration, 1
ICLQ, 1952, p. 247; 18 ILR, p. 44, and
Texaco
v
. Libya
53 ILR, p. 389.
147
See M. Akehurst, ‘Equity and General Principles of Law’, 25 ICLQ, 1976, p. 801; B. Cheng,
‘Justice and Equity in International Law’, 8
Current Legal Problems
, 1955, p. 185; V. Degan,
L’Equit´e et le Droit International
, Paris, 1970; C. de Visscher,
De l’Equit´e dans le R´eglement
Arbitral ou Judiciaire des Litiges de Droit International Public
, Paris, 1972; E. Lauterpacht,
‘Equity, Evasion, Equivocation and Evolution in International Law’,
Proceedings of the
American Branch of the ILA
, 1977–8, p. 33, and E. Lauterpacht,
Aspects of the Administration
of International Justice
, Cambridge, 1991, pp. 117–52; R. Y. Jennings, ‘Equity and Equitable
Principles’,
Annuaire Suisse de Droit International
, 1986, p. 38;
Oppenheim’s International
Law
, p. 43; R. Higgins,
Problems and Process
, Oxford, 1994, chapter 13; M. Miyoshi,
Considerations of Equity in the Settlement of Territorial and Boundary Disputes
, The Hague,
1993; S. Rosenne, ‘Equitable Principles and the Compulsory Jurisdiction of International
Tribunals’,
Festschrift f¨ur Rudolf Bindschedler
, Berne, 1980, p. 410, and Rosenne, ‘The
Position of the International Court of Justice on the Foundations of the Principle of Equity
in International Law’ in
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Equity
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1973, p. 131; Chattopadhyay, ‘Equity in International Law: Its Growth and Development’,
106
i n t e r nat i o na l l aw
number of cases references to equity
148
as a set of principles constituting
the values of the system. The most famous decision on these lines was that
of Judge Hudson in the
Diversion of Water from the Meuse
case
149
in 1937
regarding a dispute between Holland and Belgium. Hudson pointed out
that what are regarded as principles of equity have long been treated as
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