Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The growth of the Court's case law
- 3 Range of precedential resources
- 4 The bases of the system
- 5 The Advisory Committee of Jurists
- 6 The view taken by the League of Nations
- 7 The possibility of judge-made international law
- 8 Stare decisis
- 9 Distinguishing
- 10 Departing from a previous decision
- 11 Ratio decidendi and obiter dictum
- 12 Advisory opinions and decisions of chambers
- 13 The precedential impact of individual opinions
- 14 Effect and scope of the Court's case law
- 15 Conclusion
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The growth of the Court's case law
- 3 Range of precedential resources
- 4 The bases of the system
- 5 The Advisory Committee of Jurists
- 6 The view taken by the League of Nations
- 7 The possibility of judge-made international law
- 8 Stare decisis
- 9 Distinguishing
- 10 Departing from a previous decision
- 11 Ratio decidendi and obiter dictum
- 12 Advisory opinions and decisions of chambers
- 13 The precedential impact of individual opinions
- 14 Effect and scope of the Court's case law
- 15 Conclusion
- Index
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- Precedent in the World Court , pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996