nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/ca99ffd63031501e DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250801s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/ca99ffd63031501e doi eng 342 23 De Spiegeleir, Antoine Author aut The Ruling and the Mirror - The ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion as Institutional Self-Portrait De Spiegeleir, Antoine Verfassungsblog 2025-08-01 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Much of the commentary that has emerged so far, in this symposium and in seemingly every other corner of the internet, focuses on the legal content of the opinion: the articulation of States’ obligations under international law, the rejection of the lex specialis argument, and the recognition of the right to a healthy environment, inter many alia. Yet beyond the legal reasoning and doctrinal outcomes lies something else. The opinion is also an act of identity performance: a way for the ICJ to speak about itself. CC BY-SA 4.0 Advisory Opinion Climate Crisis ICJ International Court of Justice Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag Klimakatastrophe climate change (DE-588)36344-3 gnd Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag (DE-588)4234460-8 gnd Klimakatastrophe Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-ruling-and-the-mirror/ raw object