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International Court of Justice

Index International Court of Justice

The International Court of Justice (ICJ; Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the only international court that adjudicates general disputes between nations, and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues. [1]

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  1. 162 relations: Abdulqawi Yusuf, Ad hoc, Adjudication, Advisory opinion, Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Africa, Alain Pellet, Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, Arbitration, Arnold McNair, 1st Baron McNair, Asia Times, Associated Press, Awn Al-Khasawneh, Bogdan Aurescu, Bohdan Winiarski, Bruno Simma, Burkina Faso, Central American Integration System, Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, Chapter XIV of the United Nations Charter, Charter of the United Nations, China, Christopher Greenwood, Civil law (legal system), Civilization, Common law, Commonwealth of Independent States, Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, Corfu Channel case, Covenant of the League of Nations, Criticism of the United Nations, Dalveer Bhandari, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Deutsche Welle, Dire Tladi, Dispute resolution, Dumbarton Oaks Conference, Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga, EJIL: Talk!, European Journal of International Law, Ex aequo et bono, First session of the United Nations General Assembly, Francophonie, Genocide Convention, Georg Nolte, Gilbert Guillaume, Green Hackworth, Gulf of Maine, Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, Helge Klæstad, ... Expand index (112 more) »

  2. Courts and tribunals established in 1945
  3. Netherlands and the United Nations
  4. United Nations courts and tribunals
  5. United Nations organs

Abdulqawi Yusuf

Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf (Cabdulqaawi Axmed Yuusuf) is a Somali lawyer and judge serving on the International Court of Justice since 2009.

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Ad hoc

Ad hoc is a Latin phrase meaning literally for this.

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Adjudication

Adjudication is the legal process by which an arbiter or judge reviews evidence and argumentation, including legal reasoning set forth by opposing parties or litigants, to come to a decision which determines rights and obligations between the parties involved.

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Advisory opinion

An advisory opinion of a court or other government authority, such as an election commission, is a decision or opinion of the body but which is non-binding in law and does not have the effect of adjudicating a specific legal case, but which merely legally advises on its opinion as to the constitutionality or interpretation of a law.

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Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons

Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons is a landmark international law case, where the International Court of Justice gave an advisory opinion stating that while the threat or use of nuclear weapons would generally be contrary to international humanitarian law, it cannot be concluded whether or not such a threat or use of nuclear weapons would be lawful in extreme circumstances where the very survival of a state would be at stake.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Alain Pellet

Alain Pellet (born 2 January 1947) is a French lawyer who teaches international law and international economic law at the Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre La Défense.

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Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade

Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade (–) was a Brazilian jurist and international judge.

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Arbitration

Arbitration is a formal method of dispute resolution involving a neutral third party who makes a binding decision.

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Arnold McNair, 1st Baron McNair

Arnold Duncan McNair, 1st Baron McNair (4 March 1885 – 22 May 1975) was a British jurist and judge of the International Court of Justice and later the first president of the European Court of Human Rights.

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Asia Times

Asia Times, formerly known as Asia Times Online, is a Hong Kongbased English language news media publishing group, covering politics, economics, business, and culture from an Asian perspective.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Awn Al-Khasawneh

Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh (عون الخصاونة; born 22 February 1950) is a Jordanian former politician and judge who was the 39th Prime Minister of Jordan, serving from October 2011 to April 2012.

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Bogdan Aurescu

Bogdan Lucian Aurescu (born 9 September 1973) is a Romanian judge of the International Court of Justice.

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Bohdan Winiarski

Bohdan Stefan Winiarski (27 April 1884 – 4 December 1969) was a Polish politician and jurist who served as President of the International Court of Justice from 1961 to 1964.

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Bruno Simma

Bruno Simma (born March 29, 1941, in Quierschied, Germany) is a German jurist who served as a judge on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 2003 until 2012.

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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Central American Integration System

The Central American Integration System (Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana, or SICA) has been the economic and political organization of Central American states since 1 February 1993.

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Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter

Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter sets out the UN Security Council's powers to maintain peace.

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Chapter XIV of the United Nations Charter

Chapter XIV of the United Nations Charter deals with the International Court of Justice.

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Charter of the United Nations

The Charter of the United Nations (UN) is the foundational treaty of the United Nations.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Christopher Greenwood

Sir Christopher John Greenwood (born 12 May 1955) is Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge and a former British judge at the International Court of Justice.

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Civil law (legal system)

Civil law is a legal system originating in Italy and France that has been adopted in large parts of the world.

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Civilization

A civilization (civilisation) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or spoken languages (namely, writing systems and graphic arts).

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Common law

Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.

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Commonwealth of Independent States

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia.

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Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation

The Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (sometimes referred to as the Sabotage Convention or the Montreal Convention) is a multilateral treaty by which states agree to prohibit and punish behaviour which may threaten the safety of civil aviation.

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Corfu Channel case

The Corfu Channel case (Affaire du Détroit de Corfou) was the first public international law case heard before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) between 1947 and 1949, concerning state responsibility for damages at sea, as well as the doctrine of innocent passage.

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Covenant of the League of Nations

The Covenant of the League of Nations was the charter of the League of Nations.

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Criticism of the United Nations

The United Nations has been criticized for a variety of reasons, including its policies, ideology, equality of representation, administration, ability to enforce rulings, and ideological bias.

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Dalveer Bhandari

Dalveer Bhandari (born 1 October 1947) is an Indian jurist.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Deutsche Welle

("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.

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Dire Tladi

Dire Tladi is a professor of international law at the Department of Public Law and the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria.

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Dispute resolution

Dispute resolution or dispute settlement is the process of resolving disputes between parties.

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Dumbarton Oaks Conference

The Dumbarton Oaks Conference, or, more formally, the Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization, was an international conference at which proposals for the establishment of a "general international organization", which was to become the United Nations, were formulated and negotiated.

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Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga

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EJIL: Talk!

EJIL:Talk! is an international law blog.

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European Journal of International Law

The European Journal of International Law is a quarterly law journal covering international law in a combination of theoretical and practical approaches.

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Ex aequo et bono

Ex aequo et bono (Latin for "according to the right and good" or "from equity and conscience") is a Latin phrase that is used as a legal term of art.

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First session of the United Nations General Assembly

The first session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on 10 January 1946 at the Methodist Central Hall in London.

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Francophonie

The Francophonie or Francophone world is the whole body of people and organisations around the world who use the French language regularly for private or public purposes.

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Genocide Convention

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or the Genocide Convention, is an international treaty that criminalizes genocide and obligates state parties to pursue the enforcement of its prohibition.

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Georg Nolte

Georg Nolte (born 3 October 1959) is a German jurist and Judge of the International Court of Justice.

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Gilbert Guillaume

Gilbert Guillaume (born 4 December 1930) is a French jurist and judge who served as the 19th President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague from 2000 to 2003.

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Green Hackworth

Green Haywood Hackworth (Prestonsburg, Kentucky, January 23, 1883 – Washington, DC, June 24, 1973) was an American jurist who served as the first U.S. judge on the International Court of Justice, as President of the International Court of Justice, as the longest running Legal Adviser to the US Department of State (1925 -1946) and as a member of Secretary of State Cordell Hull's inner circle of advisers.

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Gulf of Maine

The Gulf of Maine is a large gulf of the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of North America.

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Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907

The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 are a series of international treaties and declarations negotiated at two international peace conferences at The Hague in the Netherlands.

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Helge Klæstad

Helge Klæstad (6 December 1885 – 23 May 1965) was a Norwegian judge.

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Hilary Charlesworth

Hilary Christiane Mary Charlesworth (born 28 February 1955) is an Australian international lawyer.

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Hisashi Owada

is a Japanese former jurist, diplomat and law professor.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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Humphrey Waldock

Sir Claud Humphrey Meredith Waldock, (13 August 1904 – 15 August 1981) was a British jurist and international lawyer.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Injunction

An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a special court order that compels a party to do or refrain from specific acts.

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International Association of Genocide Scholars

The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) is an international non-partisan organization that seeks to further research and teaching about the nature, causes, and consequences of genocide, including the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Burundi, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Bangladesh, Sudan, and other nations.

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International court

International courts are formed by treaties between nations, or by an international organization such as the United Nations – and include ad hoc tribunals and permanent institutions but exclude any courts arising purely under national authority.

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International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. International Court of Justice and international Criminal Court are organisations based in The Hague.

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International criminal law

International criminal law (ICL) is a body of public international law designed to prohibit certain categories of conduct commonly viewed as serious atrocities and to make perpetrators of such conduct criminally accountable for their perpetration.

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International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR; Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda; Urukiko Mpanabyaha Mpuzamahanga Rwashyiriweho u Rwanda) was an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to adjudicate people charged for the Rwandan genocide and other serious violations of international law in Rwanda, or by Rwandan citizens in nearby states, between 1 January and 31 December 1994. International Court of Justice and international Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda are United Nations courts and tribunals.

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International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators. International Court of Justice and International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia are Netherlands and the United Nations, organisations based in The Hague and United Nations courts and tribunals.

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International law

International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.

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International organization

An international organization, also known as an intergovernmental organization or an international institution, is an organization that is established by a treaty or other type of instrument governed by international law and possesses its own legal personality, such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization, International Union for Conservation of Nature, and NATO.

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International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is an intergovernmental organization created by the mandate of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.

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Iran Air Flight 655

Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3July 1988 by two surface-to-air missiles fired by, a United States Navy warship.

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Iran hostage crisis

The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States.

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Joan Donoghue

Joan E. Donoghue (born December 12, 1956) is an American lawyer, international legal scholar, former U.S. State Department official, and former president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

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José Gustavo Guerrero

José Gustavo Guerrero (26 June 1876 – 26 October 1958) was a Salvadoran diplomat and jurist.

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José Luis Bustamante y Rivero

José Luis Bustamante y Rivero (January 15, 1894 – January 11, 1989) was a lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat who served as the 44th President of Peru from 1945 to 1948 and President of the International Court of Justice in The Hague from 1967 to 1970.

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José María Ruda

José María Ruda (Buenos Aires, 1924 – Spain, 7 July 1994) was an Argentine jurist.

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Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo Verduzco

Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo Verduzco is a Mexican lawyer and judge on the International Court of Justice.

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Judge

A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges.

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Judicial restraint

Judicial restraint is a judicial interpretation that recommends favoring the status quo in judicial activities and is the opposite of judicial activism.

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Jules Basdevant

Jules Basdevant (April 15, 1877 – March 17, 1968 in Anost) was a French law professor.

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Julia Sebutinde

Julia Sebutinde (born 28 February 1954) is a Ugandan jurist.

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Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction (from Latin juris 'law' + dictio 'speech' or 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice.

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Kosovo War

The Kosovo War (Lufta e Kosovës; Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999.

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Kulbhushan Jadhav

Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav (also spelled Kulbhushan Yadav, alleged alias Hussain Mubarak Patel) (born 16 April 1970) is an Indian national who has been incarcerated in Pakistan since 2016.

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Law of the United States

The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the nation's Constitution, which prescribes the foundation of the federal government of the United States, as well as various civil liberties.

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Le Monde

Le Monde (The World) is a French daily afternoon newspaper.

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League of Nations

The League of Nations (LN or LoN; Société des Nations, SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

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A legal case is in a general sense a dispute between opposing parties which may be resolved by a court, or by some equivalent legal process.

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Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant

Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant (born 15 July 1966) is a Brazilian jurist and International law scholar.

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List of International Court of Justice cases

The list of International Court of Justice cases includes contentious cases and advisory opinions brought to the International Court of Justice since its creation in 1946.

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The contemporary national legal systems are generally based on one of four basic systems: civil law, common law, customary law, religious law or combinations of these.

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List of specialized agencies of the United Nations

United Nations Specialized Agencies are autonomous organizations working with the United Nations and each other through the co-ordinating machinery of the United Nations Economic and Social Council at the intergovernmental level, and through the Chief Executives Board for co-ordination (CEB) at the inter-secretariat level.

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List of treaties that confer jurisdiction on the International Court of Justice

Some treaties that confer jurisdiction on the ICJ include.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Manfred Lachs

Manfred Lachs (21 April 1914 – 14 January 1993) was a Polish diplomat and jurist who served as a Judge of the International Court of Justice and greatly influenced the development of international law after World War II.

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Maritime boundary

A maritime boundary is a conceptual division of Earth's water surface areas using physiographical or geopolitical criteria.

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Member states of the United Nations

The member states of the United Nations comprise sovereign states.

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Mohamed Bennouna

Mohamed Bennouna (محمد بنونة; born 29 April 1943 in Marrakech, Morocco) is a Moroccan diplomat and jurist.

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Mohammed Bedjaoui

Mohammed Bedjaoui (محمد بجاوي) (born September 21, 1929 in Sidi Bel-Abbes) is an Algerian diplomat and jurist.

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Moscow Conference (1943)

The Third Moscow Conference between the major Allies of World War II took place during October 18 to November 11, 1943, at the Moscow Kremlin and Spiridonovka Palace.

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Muhammad Zafarullah Khan

Sir Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (محمد ظفر اللہ خان‎; 6 February 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Pakistani jurist and diplomat who served as the first Foreign Minister of Pakistan.

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Multilateral treaty

A multilateral treaty or multilateral agreement is a treaty to which two or more sovereign states are parties.

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Nagendra Singh

Prince Sri Nagendra Singh (18 March 1914 – 11 December 1988) was an Indian lawyer and administrator who served as President of the International Court of Justice from 1985 to 1988.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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Nawaf Salam

Nawaf Salam (نواف سلام; born 15 December 1953) is a Lebanese diplomat, jurist, and academic.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.

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Nicaragua v. United States

The Republic of Nicaragua v. The United States of America (1986) was a case where the International Court of Justice (ICJ) held that the U.S. had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Sandinistas and by mining Nicaragua's harbors.

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Nicholas II

Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; 186817 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917.

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North Macedonia

North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial

The Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial began on 3 May 2000, more than 11 years after the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 on 21 December 1988.

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Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)

The Paris Peace Conference was a set of formal and informal diplomatic meetings in 1919 and 1920 after the end of World War I, in which the victorious Allies set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.

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Party (law)

A party is an individual or group of individuals that compose a single entity which can be identified as one for the purposes of the law.

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Peace Palace

The Peace Palace (Vredespaleis;, The Hague dialect: Freidespalès) is an international law administrative building in The Hague, the Netherlands.

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Peacekeeping

Peacekeeping comprises activities, especially military ones, intended to create conditions that favor lasting peace.

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Percy Spender

Sir Percy Claude Spender (5 October 18973 May 1985) was an Australian politician, diplomat, and judge.

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Permanent Court of Arbitration

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is a non-UN intergovernmental organization headquartered at the Peace Palace, in The Hague, Netherlands. International Court of Justice and Permanent Court of Arbitration are organisations based in The Hague and peace organizations.

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Permanent Court of International Justice

The Permanent Court of International Justice, often called the World Court, existed from 1922 to 1946. International Court of Justice and Permanent Court of International Justice are organisations based in The Hague.

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Peter Tomka

Peter Tomka (born 1 June 1956) is a Slovak judge of the International Court of Justice.

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Philip Alston

Philip Geoffrey Alston is an Australian international law scholar and human rights practitioner.

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Philippe Couvreur

Philippe Couvreur (born 29 November 1951 in Schaerbeek, Belgium) is a jurist specializing in international law.

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Philippe Gautier (judge)

Philippe Gautier (born) is a Belgian lawyer.

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Precedent

Precedent is a principle or rule established in a legal case that becomes authoritative to a court or other tribunal when deciding subsequent cases with similar legal issues or facts.

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Prima facie

Prima facie is a Latin expression meaning "at first sight", or "based on first impression".

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Provisional measure of protection

A provisional measure of protection is the term that the International Court of Justice (ICJ, World Court) uses to describe a procedure "roughly equivalent" to an interim order (which can be either a temporary restraining order or a temporary directive order) in national legal systems.

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Reciprocity (international relations)

In international relations and treaties, the principle of reciprocity states that favors, benefits, or penalties that are granted by one state to the citizens or legal entities of another, should be returned in kind.

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Robert Yewdall Jennings

Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings (19 October 1913 – 4 August 2004) was Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge University from 1955 to 1982 and a Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 1982.

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Ronny Abraham

Ronny Abraham (born 5 September 1951) is a French academic and practitioner in the field of public international law who was elected to the International Court of Justice, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of judge and former President Gilbert Guillaume.

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Rosalyn Higgins, Lady Higgins

Rosalyn C. Higgins, Baroness Higgins, (born 2 June 1937) is a British former president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

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Sarah Cleveland

Sarah Hull Cleveland (born September 4, 1965), an American judge, lawyer, law professor, and former State Department official, is a judge on the International Court of Justice and the Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights at Columbia Law School (currently on leave of absence).

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Self-determination

Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage.

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Separation of powers

The separation of powers principle functionally differentiates several types of state power (usually law-making, adjudication, and execution) and requires these operations of government to be conceptually and institutionally distinguishable and articulated, thereby maintaining the integrity of each.

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Serbia and Montenegro

The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (Državna zajednica Srbija i Crna Gora) or simply Serbia and Montenegro (Srbija i Crna Gora), known until 2003 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Savezna Republika Jugoslavija), FR Yugoslavia (FRY) or simply Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija), was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia).

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Sharia

Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.

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Shi Jiuyong

Shi Jiuyong (9 October 1926 – 18 January 2022) was a Chinese judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

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Socialist law

Socialist law or Soviet law are terms used in comparative legal studies for the general type of legal system which has been (and continues to be) used in socialist and formerly socialist states.

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Sovereign state

A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Statute of the International Court of Justice

The Statute of the International Court of Justice is an integral part of the United Nations Charter, as specified by Chapter XIV of the United Nations Charter, which established the International Court of Justice (replacing the Permanent Court of International Justice).

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Stephen M. Schwebel

Stephen Myron Schwebel (born March 10, 1929), is an American jurist and international judge, counsel and arbitrator.

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Supranational aspects of international organizations

Many international organizations also have supranational aspects, meaning that decisions can be made by the organization as a whole that are binding on member states that disagree.

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Taslim Olawale Elias

Taslim Olawale Elias (11 November 1914 – 14 August 1991) was a Nigerian jurist who served as minister of Justice and attorney-general of Nigeria from 1960 to 1966, Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1972 to 1975 and president of the International Court of Justice from 1982 to 1985.

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Ted McWhinney

Edward Watson McWhinney, QC (May 19, 1924 – May 19, 2015) was a Canadian lawyer and academic specializing in constitutional and international law.

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Tehran

Tehran (تهران) or Teheran is the capital and largest city of Iran as well as the largest in Tehran Province.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands.

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The Times of India

The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.

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Treaty

A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement concluded by sovereign states in international law.

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Treaty series

A treaty series is an officially published collection of treaties and other international agreements.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. International Court of Justice and United Nations are peace organizations.

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United Nations Conference on International Organization

The United Nations Conference on International Organization (UNCIO), commonly known as the San Francisco Conference, was a convention of delegates from 50 Allied nations that took place from 25 April 1945 to 26 June 1945 in San Francisco, California, United States.

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United Nations General Assembly

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ. International Court of Justice and United Nations General Assembly are United Nations organs.

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United Nations Regional Groups

The United Nations Regional Groups are the geopolitical regional groups of member states of the United Nations.

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United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter. International Court of Justice and United Nations Security Council are United Nations organs.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Universal jurisdiction

Universal jurisdiction is a legal principle that allows states or international organizations to claim criminal jurisdiction over an accused person regardless of where the alleged crime was committed, and regardless of the accused's nationality, country of residence, or any other relation to the prosecuting entity.

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Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations

The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 is an international treaty that defines a framework for diplomatic relations between independent countries.

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War reparations

War reparations are compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other.

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Working language

A working language (also procedural language) is a language that is given a unique legal status in a supranational company, society, state or other body or organization as its primary means of communication.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Xue Hanqin

Xue Hanqin (born 15 September 1955) is a Chinese jurist at the International Court of Justice.

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Yuji Iwasawa

Yuji Iwasawa (岩沢雄司; born 4 June 1954) is a Japanese jurist.

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See also

Courts and tribunals established in 1945

Netherlands and the United Nations

United Nations courts and tribunals

United Nations organs

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice

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