Foreword Preface List of abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. The growth of the Court's case law 3. Range of precedential resources 4. The bases of the system 5. The Advisory Committee of Jurists 6. The view taken by the League of Nations 7. The possibility of judge-made international law 8. Stare decisis 9. Distinguishing 10. Departing from a previous decision 11. Ratio decidendi and obiter dictum 12. Advisory opinions and decisions of chambers 13. The precedential impact of individual opinions 14. Effect and scope of the Court's case law 15. Conclusion Index.
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