Course Description

This course explicates the law and procedure of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The content of the course is as follows.

(1) "How were nuclear weapons on trial?”; (2) the ICJ as the Principal Judicial Organ of the United Nations; (3) the Composition of the ICJ; (4) Jurisdiction; (5) Optional Clause System as general; (6) Reservations of the Optional Clause Declarations; (7) Parties; (8) Proceedings; (9) Preliminary Objection; (10) Interim Measures of Protection; (11) Monetary Gold Case Principle and Intervention; (12) Res Judicata, Interpretation, and Revision of Judgment; (13) Advisory Opinion.