Profound and irreversible changes have taken place in three interconnected
areas: the legal landscape, the judicial landscape and the judicial functions.
In order to meet the challenges flowing from these changes the Court has to restore
the balance between its institutional and systemic role. In the process of doing so the
Court has to relax its policy of judicial economy and to adopt a more pro-active
judicial policy. Furthermore, the Court has to improve the quality of its reasoning
and to take further steps towards the completion of an autonomous regime for
provisional measures. Time has also come to reconsider the political and judicial
monitoring of the implementation of judgments and to explore some ideas for an
accountability regime for the Court itself.

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