The Contribution of the Case-Law of International Courts and Tribunals to the Development of International Law, DE ALMEIDA RIBEIRO MANUEL,GALVAO TELES PATRICIA, Editör, Sociedade Portuguesa de Direito Internacional, Lisbon, ss.55-72, 2022
In connection with the arbitral award on dispute between Mauritius and the United Kingdom on Chagos Marine Protected Area, and upon demand by the UN General Assembly on a relevant topic and question, the ICJ recently handed down an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of separation of Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965. Being an “advisory opinion”, this does not only signify, at least in legal-technical terms, that the question put before World Court could not and have not been resolved qua the legal dispute between the mentioned states by a binding judicial ruling, but also connotes, in a broader sense, that fundamentals underlying the creation and operation of advisory proceedings seem still worth questioning.