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Warren Calls For Expanded Role
Of International Court Of Justice

Earl Warren, retired Chief Justice of
the United States, called for the
expansion of the role of the International
Court of Justice in world affairs in an
article to be published in the May issue of
the Virginia Journal of International Law.

The Chief Justice's article, the first
which he has written for a law review
since retiring from the Court two years
ago, is one of a series concerning the World
Court which the Journal has solicited for the
special May issue.

The issue is dedicated to Hardy C. Dillard,
present occupant of the "American seat" on
the Court and professor emeritus, former dean,
and former James Monroe Professor of Law at
the Law School.

Joining Mr. Warren in writing this series on
the World Court are former judge Philip C.
Jessup, Mr. Dillard's predecessor on th Court,
and Richard A. Falk of the Woodrow Wilson
School at Princeton, a well-known legal scholar
on the subject of world order and a leading
critic of United States involvement in Vietnam.

Other contributors are Rosalyn C. Higgins of
England's Royal Institute of International
Affairs; Inis L. Claude, Jr. of the University a
political scientist well known for his writings on
world order and world peacekeeping; and
Walter Ullmann, a medieval ecclesiastic scholar
of Trinity College at Cambridge.

Richard R. Baxter, professor of law at
Harvard and editor-in-chief of the American
Journal of International Law, is writing the
introduction to the series.

The Journal's editor-in-chief, Robert K.
Goldman, says that the special issue was
conceived with the view of "nurturing new
interest in the Court."

Mr. Goldman noted that it is unusual for a
law review to include more than two or three
solicited articles in any one issue, but said that
the Journal has been forced to do so in both
this and prior issues because of a lack of
financing.

The Journal, because of increasing
publication costs and the necessity that it
expand its scope and size to keep abreast of the
increasing number of developments in the
international law field, will face an "acute
financial crisis," Mr. Goldman said, "if new
sources of funds are not forthcoming."