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Rethinking Compulsory Jurisdiction: The Case for U.S. Reentry into the ICJ's Optional Clause System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2018

Brian McGarry*
Affiliation:
Geneva LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement, a joint program of the University of Geneva Law School and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Extract

During his presentation, Mr. McGarry critiqued the common wisdom that the United States is not well served by acceding to compulsory jurisdiction systems and proposed his draft text for a declaration accepting the World Court's compulsory jurisdiction with reservations and conditions that advance American interests.

Type
New Voices: Jurisdictional Issues in International Law
Copyright
Copyright © by The American Society of International Law 2018 

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Footnotes

*

Judge Simma and Mr. Ghappour did not submit remarks for the Proceedings.

This panel was convened at 9:00 a.m., Saturday, April 15, 2017, by its moderator, Judge Bruno Simma of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, who introduced the panelists: Brian McGarry of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; Ben Love of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP; Maggie Gardner of Cornell Law School; and Ahmed Ghappour of University of California, Hastings College of Law.*

References

1 Simma, Bruno, How Has Article 36(2) of the ICJ Statute Fared?, in A Wiser Century?: Judicial Dispute Settlement, Disarmament and the Laws of War 100 Years after the Second Hague Peace Conference 456 (Giegerich, Thomas ed., 2009)Google Scholar.

2 See Mobil Corp. and Others v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, ICSID Case No. ARB/07/27, Decision on Jurisdiction, paras. 84, 170 (June 10, 2010).

3 United Press International, Times Call for Liberal Action, Says Kennedy, Lodi News-Sentinel, May 13, 1961.