’This book devotes an impressive amount of the decisions of the ICJ to the most diverse aspects of the inevitable functional interplay between negotiation and adjudication. Karel Wellens offers lucid and incisive surveys to chart the complicated legal terrain for a new world of peaceful settlement of dispute.’ Hironobu Sakai, Kyoto University, Japan ’This is an original treatment of an important subject that has not previously had the attention it ought to have received. Professor Wellens treats it with his customary thoroughness and care and brings out clearly the continuing relevance of negotiation before and after the judicial phase of dispute settlement, and even during the judicial process itself.’ Sir Franklin Berman QC, Essex Court Chambers, UK