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020			_a9780199364060 _q(hardback ; _qalk. paper)
020			_a0199364060 _q(hardback ; _qalk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)908838966 _z(OCoLC)913442632
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050	0	0	_aKZ6275 _b.W447 2016
100	1		_aWeisburd, A. Mark _q(Arthur Mark), _d1948- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFailings of the International Court of Justice / _cA. Mark Weisburd.
260			_aOxford, UK ; _aNew York, NY _bOxford University Press _c2016
300			_axi, 416 pages ; _c25 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 367-377) and index.
505	0		_aThe formal authority of the court -- The law the court may apply -- Errors of procedure -- Errors of substance -- The court's performance : summary and suggested explanations.
520			_a"Failings of the International Court of Justice critically examines the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice. Even though the legal instrument that establishes the Court provides that its judgments have no formal precedential value, those judgments are treated as authoritative by international lawyers throughout the world. This would be understandable if the Court's work was uniformly of high quality. Unfortunately, it is not. The thesis of this book is that the Court's decisions are, in a large minority of cases, poorly reasoned and doubtful as a matter of law, and therefore ought not be accorded the deference they receive. The book seeks to demonstrate its thesis by a careful review of the Court's errors. It begins with an examination of the law that created and empowered the Court. It then describes the body of law upon which the Court was intended to base its decisions, and the mistakes in the arguments supporting the Court's drawing legal rules from other sources. The book goes on to analyze in detail cases in which the Court has made serious legal errors, first addressing procedural errors, then turning to mistakes in the application of substantive international law. The book closes with a quantitative summing up of the Court's performance, and a tentative explanation for its relatively disappointing record. This work is intended to provoke thought among persons interested in international law. It is addressed to international legal academics, practitioners, the libraries they use, and anyone else interested in international law"--Unedited summary from book jacket.
610	2	0	_aInternational Court of Justice.
610	2	7	_aInternational Court of Justice. _2fast
650		0	_aInternational courts.
650		7	_aInternational courts. _2fast
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