Abstract
The settlement of international disputes by international courts or tribunals, which a century ago was just at its beginnings, can today be considered a success story. This chapter focuses on a particular instrument which has increasingly been used-perhaps also abused-in international adjudication, namely provisional measures of protection. It address some recent developments which can be summarized under the heading of interim measures as a means of and then turns to the particularities of the use of interim protection in the field of human rights and in the context of the Law of the Sea (LOS) Tribunal's competence to issue provisional measures to safeguard the marine environment; this will lead to an assessment of the issue of de facto substitution of the decision on the merits by the decision on provisional measures. Keywords:human rights; interim protection; international courts; litigation strategy
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