DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE AND OVERCOMING CRISIS PHENOMENA IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE ISSUE OF CORRELATION

One method for preventing and overcoming crisis phenomena in the international legal system involves the recourse of actors to international courts. However, the pathways to the advancement of international justice are demonstrably unclear, as evidenced by historical examples. This study aims to retrospectively analyze how the evolution of international courts has affected and is affecting the prevention and resolution of crises in the international legal system. This study utilized a combination of general scientific approaches (descriptive, chronological, heuristic, methods of analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction) and specialized legal research techniques (formal-legal, historical-legal and comparative-legal). The study concluded that, although international arbitration and international arbitral proceedings existed in the ancient world, the idea of international justice didn’t receive its scientific foundation and practical implementation as a peaceful dispute resolution method until the 19th century. International courts established during the growing global crisis in early 20th century failed to become an efficient mechanism for overcoming it, in contrast to post-World War I and post-World War II international justice bodies, which were established as components of newly formed international organizations dedicated to preventing future armed conflicts. The positive and negative impact of the rise of specialized international courts in the 20th century was analyzed. The reasons for which the development of international justice can itself provoke crisis phenomena in international law have been identified, namely insufficient development of norms of international procedural law, the activities of ad hoc international courts of a politicized nature, the inadequate «growth» of new international courts affecting their relations with states, etc.