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The International Court of Justice: Its Role in Contemporary International Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Max Sørensen
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In his concluding volume in the Carnegie Endowment's series of National Studies on International Organization, Professor Maclver observes that the International Court of Justice, as set up in 1945, was not so much a new institution as a new promise. It was closely modelled on its predecessor, the Permanent Court of International Justice, and Article 92 of the UN Charter expressly recognized the continuity with the past in affirming that the Statute of the new Court was based upon chat of the old one. The promise lay in the fact that the new Court was declared to be “the principal judicial organ of the United Nations” and thus called upon to play a more significant role than the old Court, which had never been an organic part of the League of Nations structure. Professor Maclver concludes, however, that the promise remains in important respects unfulfilled.

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International Organization , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , Spring 1960 , pp. 261 - 276
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1960

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