El desarrollo del Derecho Internacional a través de la función consultiva de la Corte Internacional de Justicia

The Charter of the United Nations Organization establishes twomain functions the International Court of Justice should perform; first, the well known contentious function, which aims to settle differences between Member States, and second, the advisory function, open to the Security Council and to the General Assembly –also to the organisms the General Assembly authorizes–.This article presents general aspects of the advisory function and itsimportance from a double optic: the consolidation of International Lawinstitutions and its potential utility in the settlement of international disputes –or preventive diplomacy–; to concludeconsidering ways of extensive use of the advisory function in theinternational system. These propositions based on more of 60 years of advisory practice of the ICJ