 He was elected to Vice President of the Court from 1994 to 1997 and served as President of the Court from 1997–2000.During his tenure on the Court Judge Schwebel adjudicated 38 cases.These cases included advisory opinions such as "Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons " and "Difference Relating to Immunity from Legal Process of a Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights ," and contentious cases between nations such as " Aerial Incident of 10 August 1999 (Pakistan v. India)".His opinions in these cases have been characterized by scholars as expansive, impassioned, exhaustive, closely reasoned and, by those who share his views, brilliant.