...International Court of Justice required that the body of Judges as a whole should assure the representation of "the main forms of civilization and the principal legal systems of the world" there was a clear expectation that the insights from all these systems would be fed into the developing...

...the League of Nations — the universal organization of that era — in such a way as to "represent the main forms of civilization and the principal legal systems of the world."5 The idea that the bench of an international court should be representative of the membership...

...consists of thirty-four people chosen "as persons of recognized competence in international law" from "the main forms of civilization" and "the principal legal systems of the world." Elected for five-year terms by the General Assembly from candidates nominated by UN member states,...