Nicaragua Before the International Court of Justice: Impacts on International Law

✍ Scribed by Edgardo Sobenes Obregon,Benjamin Samson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 438
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyses Nicaragua's role in the development of international law, through its participation in cases that have come before the International Court of Justice. Nicaragua has appeared before the ICJ in fourteen cases, either as an applicant, respondent or intervening State, thus setting an important example of committment to the peaceful judicial settlement of disputes. The “Nicaraguan” cases have enabled the ICJ to take positions on and clarify a whole range of important procedural, jurisdictional and substantive legal issues, which have inspired the jurisprudence of international and regional courts and tribunals and influenced the development of international law. The book focuses on reviewing Nicaragua's cases before the ICJ, using a thematic approach to identify their impact on international law. Each chapter includes a discussion of the relevant cases on a particular theme and their impact over time on general as well as specific branches of international law, notably through their use as precedent by other international and regional courts and tribunals.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Introduction from the Bench (Mohammed Bedjaoui)....Pages 3-14
Introduction from the Podium (Alain Pellet)....Pages 15-39
Front Matter ....Pages 41-41
Nicaragua v. United States and Matters of Evidence Before the International Court of Justice (Paul S. Reichler, Yuri B. Parkhomenko)....Pages 43-56
Front Matter ....Pages 57-57
The Nicaragua v. United States Case: An Overview of the Epochal Judgments (Fernando Lusa Bordin)....Pages 59-83
The Saga of the 1858 Treaty of Limits: The Cases Against Costa Rica (Daniel Müller)....Pages 85-112
The Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia) and Its Implications for Future Maritime Delimitations in the Caribbean Sea and Elsewhere (Lawrence H. Martin, Yuri B. Parkhomenko)....Pages 113-139
Front Matter ....Pages 141-141
The Pact of Bogotá in the Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice (Antonio Remiro Brotóns)....Pages 143-178
Nicaragua’s Impacts on Optional Clause Practice (Brian McGarry)....Pages 179-211
Front Matter ....Pages 213-213
Nicaragua in the International Court of Justice and the Law of Treaties (Antonios Tzanakopoulos, Anna Ventouratou)....Pages 215-245
Customary Law, General Principles, Unilateral Acts (Malgosia Fitzmaurice)....Pages 247-267
Customary Principle of Sovereignty of States in the Nicaragua Case (Vaughan Lowe)....Pages 269-279
The Law of State Responsibility in the Nicaraguan Cases (Benjamin Samson, Tessa Barsac)....Pages 281-303
The Use of Force in the Nicaraguan Cases (William Schabas)....Pages 305-325
International Law of the Sea and the Nicaraguan Cases (Donald R. Rothwell)....Pages 327-346
Environmental Law and Freshwater Ecosystems (Stephen C. McCaffrey)....Pages 347-367
Front Matter ....Pages 369-369
Intervention (Alina Miron)....Pages 371-396
Provisional Measures (Hugh Thirlway)....Pages 397-412
Joinder of Cases: Strengthening the Sound Administration of Justice and the Judicial Economy (Edgardo Sobenes Obregon)....Pages 413-425
Front Matter ....Pages 427-427
Conclusions (Pierre d’Argent)....Pages 429-432
Back Matter ....Pages 433-435

✦ Subjects

Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration