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Book Review The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 4 : 523–528, 2005 © 2005 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Evidence in International Litigation by Chittharanjan F. Amerasinghe. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2005, xxxiv + 492 pages. ISBN 90 04 14449 8. This book follows on three of the author’s earlier works, Jurisdiction of International Tribunals (2003), Local Remedies in International Law (2nd edn., 2004) and Principles of the Institutional Law of International Organizations (2nd edn., 2005). The author, distinguished for his academic standing in the University of Sri Lanka and for his official duties as Executive Secretary of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal and later as a member of the UN Administrative Tribunal, is certainly well qualified to study major problems of the contemporary international system of courts and tribunals and their functioning. In 2000 he was chosen by the Bureau of the Institute of International Law to serve as rapporteur for the topic of principles of evidence in international litigation, the first occasion for a thorough study of the matter by the Institute. Unfortunately ill-health led him to resign from that position shortly before the Institute’s 2003 session at Bruges, and the Institute itself never http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals Brill

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Brill
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© 2005 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1569-1853
eISSN
1571-8034
DOI
10.1163/157180305774859587
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The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 4 : 523–528, 2005 © 2005 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Evidence in International Litigation by Chittharanjan F. Amerasinghe. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2005, xxxiv + 492 pages. ISBN 90 04 14449 8. This book follows on three of the author’s earlier works, Jurisdiction of International Tribunals (2003), Local Remedies in International Law (2nd edn., 2004) and Principles of the Institutional Law of International Organizations (2nd edn., 2005). The author, distinguished for his academic standing in the University of Sri Lanka and for his official duties as Executive Secretary of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal and later as a member of the UN Administrative Tribunal, is certainly well qualified to study major problems of the contemporary international system of courts and tribunals and their functioning. In 2000 he was chosen by the Bureau of the Institute of International Law to serve as rapporteur for the topic of principles of evidence in international litigation, the first occasion for a thorough study of the matter by the Institute. Unfortunately ill-health led him to resign from that position shortly before the Institute’s 2003 session at Bruges, and the Institute itself never

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The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2005

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