Nicaragua Before the International Court of Justice Impacts on Inter
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, resp
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icaragua Before the International Court of Justice Impacts on International Law
Nicaragua Before the International Court of Justice
Edgardo Sobenes Obregon • Benjamin Samson Editors
Nicaragua Before the International Court of Justice Impacts on International Law
Editors Edgardo Sobenes Obregon Embassy of Nicaragua in The Hague The Netherlands
Benjamin Samson University Paris Nanterre Paris, France
ISBN 978-3-319-62961-2 ISBN 978-3-319-62962-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-62962-9
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Editors’ Note and Acknowledgements
At the very beginning the idea behind the preparation of this book was to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the 1986 Judgment in the case concerning the Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America). However, it became obvious that the contributions embodied in the jurisprudence of the cases to which Nicaragua has been a party extend well beyond the case against the United States, which is why it was decided that the approach should be general. Until now, the general contributions of the Nicaraguan cases had not been put together in a single book nor have they been analyzed with a thematic approach and according to their procedural, jurisdictional, or substantive nature. Evidently, 14 cases and more than 30 years of jurisprudence cannot be limited to a single volume. For this reason, Nicaragua before the International Court of Justice aims at identifying and discussing findings of the ICJ which constitute contributions to the de
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