Edited by Achilles Skordas, Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol, UK and Senior Research Affiliate, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany and Lisa Mardikian, Senior Lecturer in Law, Brunel University London, UK

• ContentsIntroduction to the Research Handbook on the International Court of Justice 1Achilles Skordas and Lisa MardikianPART I GOVERNANCE FUNCTIONS1 The dispute settlement function of the International Court of Justice:world order or transactional justice? 12Eirik Bjorge and Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik2 Advisory opinions in the UN decision-making process 30Eran Sthoeger and Michael Wood3 The International Court of Justice as a law-creative actor 52Gleider Hernández4 The International Court of Justice and the individual 72Astrid Kjeldgaard-Pedersen5 Majority and individual opinions: constructive dialogue or the worst oftwo worlds? 91Geir UlfsteinPART II JUDICIAL POLICIES6 The International Court of Justice and ‘progressive causes’ 105Callum Musto and Antonios Tzanakopoulos7 The International Court of Justice and the idea of liberal international law 142Russell Buchan8 Ex aequo et bono: the uses of the road never taken 166Shai Dothan9 The International Court of Justice and migration 180Gregor Noll10 Dealing with informational complexity: burden and standard of proof inthe jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice 193Robert KolbPART III THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE ANDSUPRANATIONAL JUDICIAL SYSTEMS11 The International Court of Justice and the Law of the Sea disputesettlement system 211Sir Malcolm D. Evans and Nicholas A. Ioannides12 The International Court of Justice and international criminal courts andtribunals 245Karin Oellers-Frahm13 Benign neglect, anti-model or reverse learning? Tracing theInternational Court of Justice’s influence on WTO dispute settlement 267Jeffrey L. Dunoff14 The International Court of Justice and the Court of Justice of theEuropean Union: between fragmentation and universality of international law 294Jed Odermatt15 The International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights 320Rainer Grote16 The International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Court ofHuman Rights 340Paula Wojcikiewicz AlmeidaPART IV THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE AND THENATIONAL LEGAL ORDERS17 The role and function of the International Court of Justice jurisprudencein the Supreme Court of the United States 365Oren Gross18 The International Court of Justice and the courts of the United Kingdom 387Nigel D. White19 The International Court of Justice and Germany: a survey from theperspective of international law and constitutional law 403Andreas L. Paulus and Matthias Lippold20 Russia, international law and the International Court of Justice 444Iryna Marchuk21 Islamic Law States and the International Court of Justice 473Steve McDowell22 Japan and the International Court of Justice 498Dai Tamada23 China and the International Court of Justice 522Congyan Cai24 The International Court of Justice and South Africa 547Dire TladiPART V THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES25 The International Court of Justice as a discursive actor: mappingself-legitimation in ICJ jurisprudence 566Zuzanna Godzimirska26 The International Court of Justice, mass media and international publicopinion 584Daniel JoyceEpilogue: the Delphic Oracle and a note on the beginnings 600Achilles Skordas

‘An especially rich collection of interventions and insights into the record of the International Court of Justice at a time of “hyperactivity” ... Achilles Skordas and Lisa Mardikian have assembled an assured list of contributors to take forward topics both old and new – from the forms of authority of public international law in action to the possibility of decisions ex aequo et bono, from migration law and migration-related matters to the practice of self-legitimation, from the Court as progenitor of laws to agitator for progressive change. All is here in a major and most welcome addition to the literature on this most venerable of institutions that will reward the attentive reader hour upon reading hour.’