The Importance of Specificity and Precision in Asking and Answering Advisory Opinions

Michelle asks judges and lawyers to think broader about different kinds of knowledge that might yet inform our decision making in this realm. Andrea says while we want to maintain consensus on the bench it might it's an important point of discerning for ourselves okay which political communities or which communities assume that this is the response we should be taking to climate change. The ICJ originally started as a question being posed by activist and academics in the scholarly community and the University of the South Pacific so I think that that does bring an opportunity to incorporate into the process much more of this disordered thinking, she adds.