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Throughout his career, Philip C. Jessup was passionately committed to the use of law and diplomacy for the peaceful settlement of international disputes. He provided a generation of leadership in the wide and difficult endeavor that he characterized as "transnational law"—by which he meant to emphasize the importance of a wider storehouse of rules and avoidance of the dogmas and fictions associated with traditional international law.

Litigation of contentious cases before the International Court of Justice has in some instances been a lengthy and comparatively expensive procedure. However, it is not necessarily the Court or its procedure that produces this situation, because governments parties to litigation sometimes feel it is important to retain a number of advocates to plead, and they agree on comparatively long periods for the preparation of written pleadings. Comparing this procedure with ad hoc arbitration before a referee and two arbitrators, the latter looks comparatively swift and inexpensive. However, there are as yet unused possibilities for the International Court to adjudicate cases on a basis comparable in time and expense to ad hoc arbitration. The use of the Court for what might be less important cases would also contribute to its institutional development.