The World Court Digest continues the Fontes Iuris Gentium, a series that presents the decisions of the Permanent Court of International Justice, up to 1990. The new volume covers the period from 1996 to 2000. All important pronouncements of the Court in its judgments and advisory opinions, are systematically arranged under specific topics taken from substantive and procedural international law. The World Court Digest provides reliable access to the decisions of the most significant international judicial organ on questions as important as the aerial incident at Lockerbie, the crimes of genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the use of nuclear weapons and the use of force in the Yugoslavian context.

For the readers it will be of particular importance to have a systematical overview over the decisions of the Court to specific topics The special features are that original excerpts from the decisions of the Court are collected under specific topics showing thus on the one hand which questions are important in State relations and on the other hand how the appreciation of those questions has developed or not