ABSTRACT
This chapter looks into the post-adjudicative phase of dispute resolution by the International Court of Justice. It reviews the existing legal framework relating to compliance with decisions of the World Court and their enforcement as well as presenting relevant practice, mainly within the United Nations. Those mechanisms, however, prove to be ineffective, insufficient, and often highly politicalised. Thus, the role of municipal courts in enforcing ICJ decisions is examined and their related decisions analysed in detail. As instances of this practise are already numerous, a typology is proposed distinguishing between enforcement sensu stricto, enforcement sensu largo, and the quasi-enforcement of rulings of the ICJ as well as the implementation of its advisory opinions through and by domestic judicial institutions.
