Monday, October 12, 2015

Quintana: Litigation at the International Court of Justice: Practice and Procedure

Juan José Quintana (Permanent Representative of Columbia to the United Nations, Geneva) has published Litigation at the International Court of Justice: Practice and Procedure (Brill | Nijhoff 2015). Here's the abstract:
Litigation at the International Court of Justice provides a systematic guide to questions of procedure arising when States come before the International Court of Justice to take part in contentious litigation. Quintana's approach is primarily empirical and emphasis is put on examples derived from actual practice. This book is mainly intended to help practitioners and advisors to governments engaged in actual cases and deliberately avoids theoretical discussions, favoring a pragmatic stance that is focused not so much on what authors have to say on any given topic concerning procedure, but rather on presenting, directly “from the Court’s mouth,” as it were, what ICJ judges actually have done and said over the last ninety years concerning such questions.