1 When an international court or tribunal has jurisdiction over a dispute and the claims are admissible, one may be forgiven for thinking that all the court or tribunal has to do is to decide the dispute by applying the ‘applicable rules and principles of international law’, whatever these may be. However, the question of what rules and principles an international court or tribunal is bound to apply—the applicable law—is rarely straightforward, particularly for the great majority of international courts and tribunals with specialized rather than a general...
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