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Standards for Granting Provisional Measures in International Court Proceedings

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International courts, such as the ICJ and ITLOS, rarely grant provisional measures—they have been requested in hundreds of cases but granted in only a fraction, often reserving them for extreme situations where rights are genuinely at risk of irreparable harm.

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When a nation takes another to an international court, the case can drag on for years. What if one side is about to build a dam that floods the other's land—or start a military campaign that destroys the very thing being argued over? Courts have a tool to stop the clock: provisional measures.