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Role, consensus and opinion analysis at the International Court of Justice*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Lyndel V. Prott
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Sociologically oriented studies of courts have been well-established in the United States for many decades. The interest of the American Realist School of Jurisprudence in how courts actually do work, as opposed to how they say they work, has ensured a reception for those studies which might help us better understand judicial behaviour. They have been accepted much more slowly in other jurisdictions such as Germany and the United Kingdom and are yet to be accepted in France. Sociological analyses of court processes and judicial behaviour in international tribunals have also been slow to be accepted. As recently as 1975 an eminent international lawyer found a first attempt at such a study on the International Court of Justice “disconcerting”.

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Netherlands Yearbook of International Law , Volume 14 , December 1983 , pp. 69 - 85
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1983

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