Episode 18: Be Careful What You Ask For

In this episode Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb
are joined by Philippe Sands and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh. They
reflect on the role and significance of advisory opinions by
international courts, particularly in the context of various
current efforts to litigate legal issues regarding climate change
in such advisory proceedings in several different courts. They
also discuss previous high-profile advisory proceedings before
the ICJ, including the Nuclear Weapons, Wall and Kosovo cases,
focusing on the different types of advisory cases, their legal
and political purposes, the litigations strategies of the parties
and the need to formulate questions tailored to the particular
moment and the particular forum.