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  • 10 - The International Court of Justice

  • Ian Hurd, Northwestern University, Illinois
  • Book:
    International Organizations
    Published online:
    17 May 2024
    Print publication:
    06 June 2024, pp 220-247

  • Summary

    The ICJ is the primary court for legal disputes among governments. It hears cases in which one country claims that another country has violated its obligations under international law. This chapter introduces the ICJ by examining its legal foundation in the Statute of the ICJ, and shows its powers and limits in practice by looking at the cases of Belgium v. Congo (on genocide) and Australia v. Japan (on rights and obligations for whale hunting under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling).

  • 11 - The Working Practices of the Court

  • from Part II - The ICJ and International Dispute Settlement
  • Edited by Carlos Espósito, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Kate Parlett, Twenty Essex, London
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to the International Court of Justice
    Published online:
    18 May 2023
    Print publication:
    06 April 2023, pp 223-246

  • Summary

    This chapter describes the working practices of the Court, and the reforms made to increase the speed of cases, as well as to improve the processes. The author notes that the Court has demonstrated significant agility in its more recent amendments to the Rules to take account of the worldwide pandemic, and argues that there is evidence to suggest that the Court is becoming more assertive, moving away from its traditionally high level of deference to States.