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Nicaragua Before the International Court of Justice

Impacts on International Law

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Edgardo Sobenes Obregon

    1. Embassy of Nicaragua in The Hague, Den Haag, The Netherlands

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  2. Benjamin Samson

    1. University Paris Nanterre, Paris, France

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  • Provides valuable resource for practitioners, academics, diplomats and students in the field

  • Deals with contemporary issues of law, such as maritime delimitation beyond 200 nm

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction from the Bench

      • Mohammed Bedjaoui
      Pages 3-14

    3. Introduction from the Podium

      • Alain Pellet
      Pages 15-39

  3. Evidentiary Matters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Nicaragua v. United States and Matters of Evidence Before the International Court of Justice

      • Paul S. Reichler, Yuri B. Parkhomenko
      Pages 43-56

  4. The Nicaraguan Sagas Before the International Court of Justice (Overviews)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. The Nicaragua v. United States Case: An Overview of the Epochal Judgments

      • Fernando Lusa Bordin
      Pages 59-83

    3. The Saga of the 1858 Treaty of Limits: The Cases Against Costa Rica

      • Daniel Müller
      Pages 85-112

    4. 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

  5. Jurisdictional Issues in the Nicaraguan Cases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. The Pact of Bogotá in the Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice

      • Antonio Remiro Brotóns
      Pages 143-178

    3. Nicaragua’s Impacts on Optional Clause Practice

      • Brian McGarry
      Pages 179-211

  6. Substantive Issues in the Nicaraguan Cases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. Nicaragua in the International Court of Justice and the Law of Treaties

      • Antonios Tzanakopoulos, Anna Ventouratou
      Pages 215-245

    3. Customary Law, General Principles, Unilateral Acts

      • Malgosia Fitzmaurice
      Pages 247-267

    4. Customary Principle of Sovereignty of States in the Nicaragua Case

      • Vaughan Lowe
      Pages 269-279

    5. The Law of State Responsibility in the Nicaraguan Cases

      • Benjamin Samson, Tessa Barsac
      Pages 281-303

    6. The Use of Force in the Nicaraguan Cases

      • William Schabas
      Pages 305-325

    7. International Law of the Sea and the Nicaraguan Cases

      • Donald R. Rothwell
      Pages 327-346
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About this book

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.





Editors and Affiliations

  • Embassy of Nicaragua in The Hague, Den Haag, The Netherlands

    Edgardo Sobenes Obregon

  • University Paris Nanterre, Paris, France

    Benjamin Samson

About the editors

​Edgardo Sobenes Obregon, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Nicaragua
Benjamin Samson, University of Paris Nanterre

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