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Connie Peck & Roy S. Lee, Increasing the Effectiveness of the International Court of Justice. Proceedings of thc ICJ/UNITAR Col ...

Connie Peck & Roy S. Lee, Increasing the Effectiveness of the International Court of Justice.... There once was a time when the International Court of Justice could hardly com- plain of a heavy work load. Currently the Court is facing a docket that comprises more than twenty cases, some of which have been pending for years. By the same token, however, the Court has to cope with significant challenges brought about by the changing environment in which it operates. These challenges are manifold and include the competition, as it were, among the various rather recently established judicial dispute settlement bodies, and the increased recourse to the Court by States willing to submit cases to the Court (more often than not by unilateral application). No doubt the Court has to react as efficaciously as possible to these new develop- ments (for stimulating ideas on a reform of the work method of the Court by way of an "introspective inquiry", see Rosalyn Higgins, "Respecting Sovereign States and Running a Tight Courtroom", 50 ICLQ 121 [1991]). The Court's fiftieth anni- versary was therefore an excellent occasion to examine feasible responses to these changed circumstances which the Court is facing today. Apart from the festschrift in honour of Sir Robert Jennings (Fifty Years of the International Court of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Austrian Review of International and European Law Online Brill

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1573-6512
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10.1163/157365101X00218
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Abstract

There once was a time when the International Court of Justice could hardly com- plain of a heavy work load. Currently the Court is facing a docket that comprises more than twenty cases, some of which have been pending for years. By the same token, however, the Court has to cope with significant challenges brought about by the changing environment in which it operates. These challenges are manifold and include the competition, as it were, among the various rather recently established judicial dispute settlement bodies, and the increased recourse to the Court by States willing to submit cases to the Court (more often than not by unilateral application). No doubt the Court has to react as efficaciously as possible to these new develop- ments (for stimulating ideas on a reform of the work method of the Court by way of an "introspective inquiry", see Rosalyn Higgins, "Respecting Sovereign States and Running a Tight Courtroom", 50 ICLQ 121 [1991]). The Court's fiftieth anni- versary was therefore an excellent occasion to examine feasible responses to these changed circumstances which the Court is facing today. Apart from the festschrift in honour of Sir Robert Jennings (Fifty Years of the International Court of

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Austrian Review of International and European Law OnlineBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2003

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