Corpus of Decisions: International Court of Justice (CD-ICJ)

<strong>Overview</strong> The <strong>Corpus of Decisions: International Court of Justice (CD-ICJ)</strong> collects and presents for the first time in human- and machine-readable form all published decisions of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Among these are judgments, advisory opinions and orders, as well as their respective appended minority opinions (declarations, separate opinions and dissenting opinions). The International Court of Justice has kindly made available these documents on its website. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the primary judicial organ of the United Nations and one of the most consequential courts in international law. Called the ‘World Court’ by many, it is the only international court with general thematic jurisdiction. While critics occasionally note the lack of compulsory jurisdiction and sharply limited access to the Court, its opinions continue to have an outsize influence on the modern interpretation, codification and wider development of international law. Every international legal textbook covers the workings and decisions of the Court in extenso and participation in international moot courts such as the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court without regular reference to and citation of the International Court of Justice’s decisions is unthinkable. This data set is designed to be complementary to and fully compatible with the <strong>Corpus of Decisions: Permanent Court of International Justice (CD-PCIJ)</strong>, which is also available open access. <strong>Citation</strong> A peer-reviewed academic paper describing the construction and relevance of the data set entitled <strong>'Introducing Twin Corpora of Decisions for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ)'</strong> was published open access in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (JELS). It is also available in print at JELS 2022, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 491-524. If you use the data set for academic work, please cite both the JELS paper and the precise version of the data set you used for your analysis. <strong>New in Version 2022-09-07</strong> Full recompilation of data set Scope extends up to case number 183: Jurisdictional Immunities (Germany v Italy) CHANGELOG and README converted to external markdown files The ZIP archive of source files includes the TEX files Config file converted to TOML format All R packages are version-controlled with {renv} Data set creation process cleans up all files from previous runs before a new data set is created Removed redundant color from violin plots Added custom split instructions for the 2021-07-21 Order in the Amity Treaty case <strong>Updates</strong> The CD-ICJ will be updated two times per year, ideally every six months. In case of serious errors an update will be provided at the earliest opportunity and a highlighted advisory issued on the Zenodo page of the current version. Minor errors will be documented in the GitHub issue tracker and fixed with the next scheduled release. The CD-ICJ is versioned according to the day the data was acquired from the website of the Court, in the ISO format YYYY-MM-DD. Its initial release version is 2021-11-23. Notifications regarding new and updated data sets will be published on my academic website at www.seanfobbe.com or via Mastodon at @[e-mail] <strong>Recommended Variants</strong> Target Audience Recommended Variant <em>Practitioners</em> PDF_BEST_MajorityOpinions <em>Traditional Scholars</em> PDF_BEST_FULL <em>Quantitative Analysts</em> CSV_BEST_FULL Please refer to the Codebook regarding the relative merits of each variant. All variants are available in either English or French. Unless you have very specific needs you should only use the variants denoted 'BEST' for serious work. <strong>Features</strong> Fully compatible with the Corpus of Decisions: Permanent Court of International Justice (CD-PCIJ) 27 variables Public Domain (CC-Zero 1.0) Open and platform independent file formats (PDF, TXT, CSV) Extensive Codebook Compilation Report explains construction and validation of the data set in detail Large number of diagrams for all purposes (see the 'ANALYSIS' archive) Diagrams are available as PDF (for printing) and PNG (for web display), tables are available as CSV for easy readability by humans and machines Secure cryptographic signatures Publication of full source code (Open Source) <strong>Key Metrics</strong> <em>Version:</em> 2022-09-07 <em>Temporal Coverage</em>: 31 July 1947 – 7 July 2022 <em>Documents:</em> 2215 (English) / 2197 (French) <em>Tokens:</em> 15,421,131 (English) / 15,775,848 (French) <em>File Formats:</em> PDF, TXT, CSV <strong>Source Code and Compilation Report</strong> With every compilation of the full data set an extensive Compilation Report is created in a professionally layouted PDF format (comparable to the Codebook). The Compilation Report includes the Source Code, comments and explanations of design decisions, relevant computational results, exact timestamps and a table of contents with clickable internal hyperlinks to each section. The Compilation Report and Source Code are published under the same DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7051932 For details of the construction and validation of the data set please refer to the Compilation Report. <strong>Disclaimer</strong> This data set has been created by Mr Seán Fobbe using documents available on the website of the International Court of Justice (https://www.icj-cij.org). It is a personal academic initiative and is not associated with or endorsed by the International Court of Justice or the United Nations. The Court accepts no responsibility or liability arising out of my use, or that of third parties, of the documents and information produced, used or published on the Zenodo website. Neither the Court nor its staff members nor its contractors may be held responsible or liable for the consequences, financial or otherwise, resulting from the use of these documents and information. <strong>Academic Publications (Fobbe)</strong> Website — www.seanfobbe.com Open Data — zenodo.org/communities/sean-fobbe-data Code Repository — zenodo.org/communities/sean-fobbe-code Regular Publications — zenodo.org/communities/sean-fobbe-publications <strong>Contact</strong> Did you discover any errors? Do you have suggestions on how to improve the data set? You can either post these to the Issue Tracker on GitHub or write me an e-mail at [e-mail]**概述** **国际法院判决汇编（Corpus of Decisions: International Court of Justice, 简称CD-ICJ）** 首次以人类与机器可读的形式，收集并呈现了国际法院（International Court of Justice, 简称ICJ）所有已公布的判决。其中涵盖判决书、咨询意见与命令，以及各自附带的少数意见（包括声明、个别意见与反对意见）。国际法院已在其官方网站上免费提供了上述文档。 国际法院是联合国主要司法机关，也是国际法领域最具影响力的法院之一，被多数人称为“世界法院”，是唯一拥有普遍主题管辖权的国际法院。尽管批评者时常指出其缺乏强制管辖权且准入渠道极为有限，但其司法意见仍对现代国际法的解释、编纂与整体发展有着远超常规的影响力。每一本国际法学教科书都会详细阐述该法院的运作与判决，而参与菲利普·C·杰瑟普模拟法庭（Philip C. Jessup Moot Court）等国际模拟法庭活动时，若不经常援引国际法院的判决，几乎是不可想象的。本数据集旨在与同样开放获取的**常设国际法院判决汇编（Corpus of Decisions: Permanent Court of International Justice, 简称CD-PCIJ）**形成互补并完全兼容。 **引用说明** 一篇经同行评审的学术论文阐述了本数据集的构建与价值，题为《国际法院与常设国际法院判决双汇编（Introducing Twin Corpora of Decisions for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ)）》，已在《实证法律研究期刊》（Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 简称JELS）以开放获取形式发表，印刷版见于该刊2022年第19卷第2期，第491-524页。若将本数据集用于学术研究，请同时引用该JELS论文以及您所使用的数据集的精确版本。 **2022-09-07版本更新内容** 数据集完成完整重新编译；数据覆盖范围扩展至第183号案件：《管辖豁免权案（德国诉意大利）》；变更日志与自述文件转换为外部Markdown格式；源文件压缩包包含TEX文档；配置文件转换为TOML格式；所有R程序包均通过{renv}进行版本管控；数据集创建流程会在生成新数据集前，清理上一次运行产生的所有冗余文件；移除了小提琴图中冗余的配色；为2021年7月21日《友好条约案》的命令添加了自定义拆分说明。 **更新机制** CD-ICJ每年将更新两次，理想情况下每六个月一次。若出现严重错误，将第一时间提供更新，并在当前版本的Zenodo页面发布高亮公告。轻微错误将记录在GitHub问题追踪器中，并在下一次预定发布版本中修复。CD-ICJ的版本编号采用从法院网站获取数据当日的ISO格式日期（YYYY-MM-DD），首个发布版本为2021-11-23。数据集更新通知将发布在作者的学术网站www.seanfobbe.com，或通过Mastodon账号@[e-mail]推送。 **推荐数据集变体** 适用对象与推荐变体对应如下： - 实务从业者：PDF_BEST_MajorityOpinions - 传统学者：PDF_BEST_FULL - 定量分析师：CSV_BEST_FULL 请参阅代码手册（Codebook）了解各变体的相对优势。所有变体均提供英文与法文版本。除非有特殊定制需求，正式学术研究仅应使用标注为“BEST”的变体。 **数据集特性** - 与常设国际法院判决汇编（CD-PCIJ）完全兼容； - 包含27个变量； - 采用公共领域授权（CC-Zero 1.0）； - 采用开放且跨平台的文件格式（PDF、TXT、CSV）； - 附带详尽的代码手册； - 编译报告详细阐释了数据集的构建与验证流程； - 包含大量适用于各类场景的图表（详见“ANALYSIS”压缩包）； - 图表提供PDF（用于印刷）与PNG（用于网页展示）两种格式，表格则以CSV格式提供，便于人类与机器读取； - 附带安全加密签名； - 完整开源代码公开。 **核心指标** - *版本：* 2022-09-07 - *时间覆盖范围：* 1947年7月31日 – 2022年7月7日 - *文档数量：* 2215份（英文）/2197份（法文） - *Token数量：* 15,421,131（英文）/15,775,848（法文） - *文件格式：* PDF、TXT、CSV **源代码与编译报告** 每一次完整数据集编译都会生成一份格式专业的PDF编译报告（可与代码手册媲美）。该编译报告包含源代码、设计决策的注释与说明、相关计算结果、精确时间戳，以及带有可点击内部超链接的目录。编译报告与源代码的DOI为：https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7051932。如需了解数据集构建与验证的详细信息，请参阅编译报告。 **免责声明** 本数据集由Seán Fobbe先生利用国际法院官网（https://www.icj-cij.org）上的公开文档制作完成，属于个人学术倡议，与国际法院或联合国无关联，亦未获得其背书。国际法院不对本人或第三方使用Zenodo网站上生成、使用或发布的文档与信息所产生的任何后果承担责任。国际法院及其工作人员、承包商均不对因使用这些文档与信息所导致的任何财务或其他后果承担责任。 **Fobbe的学术成果** - 学术网站 — www.seanfobbe.com - 开放数据仓库 — zenodo.org/communities/sean-fobbe-data - 代码仓库 — zenodo.org/communities/sean-fobbe-code - 常规学术成果合集 — zenodo.org/communities/sean-fobbe-publications **联系方式** 若您发现任何错误，或有改进数据集的建议，可通过GitHub问题追踪器提交，或发送电子邮件至[e-mail]