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Compliance with Decisions of the International Court of Justice.(Book review)
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American Journal of International Law
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April 1, 2007
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- Bjorklund, Andrea K.
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 American Society of International Law. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Compliance with Decisions of the International Court of Justice. By Constanze Schulte. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxxiii, 485. Index. $165.
A court's pronouncements may be legally persuasive and intellectually sound, but if the parties before it do not abide by the judgment, its words will carry less weight than if the parties do its bidding. Moreover, the likelihood that disputants will seek justice before the court will also diminish if after a lengthy and perhaps expensive endeavor, there is no certainty that the losing party will honor the decision. In most municipal legal systems, the sovereign government has mechanisms, such as the ...
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