Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. A Short History of the Arbitral Settlement of Interstate Disputes till the Establishment of the PCIJ
Chapter 2. The Legislative History of the Optional Clause and its Conception
Chapter 3. Declarations Accepting the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the Court
Chapter 4. Admissibility of Reservations to Declarations of Acceptence
Chapter 5. The Legal Character of the Optional Clause System
Chapter 6. Reciprocity and the System of Optional Clause Declarations
Chapter 7. Generally Accepted Reservations to Declarations of Acceptance
Chapter 8. Destructive Reservations
Chapter 9. Termination and Amendment of Declarations of Acceptance
Chapter 10. Objecting to the Court's Jurisdiction
Chapter 11. Reconsidering the Optional Clause System
Appendix
Bibliography
Index