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The ICJ and Multi-forum Litigation Strategy

The ICJ and Multi-forum Litigation Strategy

Name: The ICJ and Multi-forum Litigation Strategy
Brand: Brill Nijhoff
SKU: 9789004704558
Price: 2407.30 HKD
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Author: Nikolaos Voulgaris
ISBN: 9789004704558

By Nikolaos Voulgaris

Brill Nijhoff August 2025

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9789004704558
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Publication: August 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Countri(es) for reference only

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"In a world where inter-State multi-forum litigation multiplies, so does the risk of courts becoming diplomatic platforms to air State grievances."

Nowadays, the ICJ is called to confront this risk when dealing with the main political issues of the day. The book draws inferences from legal and political sciences to assess ICJ authority when crises make their way to it as part of a multi-forum litigation strategy. It identifies the essential characteristics of this strategy and delineates ICJ instrumentalization against this background. Three running examples expose the many roles implanted in the ICJ when it is so instrumentalized. And they determine the legal and policy ramifications ensuing from a State's attempt to engage in such a judicial-'diplomatic' campaign.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Multi-forum Litigation Strategy in an Inter-state Setting: What Is, Thrust of, Systematization

Chapter 2 Engaging the ICJ in a Multi-forum Litigation Strategy

The One Where an Old Map Was Used to Vindicate New Myths

Chapter 3 Provisional Measures: Unripe Dispute Settlement

The One Where Isolation Was Not Good for Anyone

Chapter 4 Advisory Opinions: Bilateral Disputes in a Multilateral Setting

The One Where Postal Stamps Herald Justice

Chapter 5 The Many Roles of the Court in the Changing Landscape of Inter-state Litigation

Index