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  2. Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice - Wikipedia

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    The International Court of Justice has jurisdiction in two types of cases: contentious cases between states in which the court produces binding rulings between states that agree, or have previously agreed, to submit to the ruling of the court; and advisory opinions, which provide reasoned, but non-binding, rulings on properly submitted questions of international law, usually at the request of ...

  3. International Court of Justice - Wikipedia

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    The ICJ is vested with the power to make its own rules. Court procedure is set out in the Rules of Court of the International Court of Justice 1978 (as amended on 29 September 2005). [26] Cases before the ICJ will follow a standard pattern.

  4. International legal system - Wikipedia

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    The International Court of Justice acknowledged in the Reparation for Injuries case that types of international legal personality other than statehood could exist and that the past half century has seen a significant expansion of the subjects of international law. Apart from states, international legal personality is also possessed by ...

  5. International law - Wikipedia

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    There is a distinction between public and private international law; the latter is concerned with whether national courts can claim jurisdiction over cases with a foreign element and the application of foreign judgments in domestic law, whereas public international law covers rules with an international origin. [6]

  6. International court - Wikipedia

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    An international court is an international organization, or a body of an international organization, that hears cases in which one party may be a state or international organization (or body thereof), and which is composed of independent judges who follow predetermined rules of procedure to issue binding decisions on the basis of international law.

  7. Watch live on Friday (24 May) as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rules on Israel’s offensive in Rafah. Judges at the U.N.’s top court are set to rule on an emergency request to order ...

  8. Sources of international law - Wikipedia

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    Article 38(1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice is generally recognized as a definitive statement of the sources of international law. [2] It requires the Court to apply, among other things, (a) international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states; (b) international custom, as evidence of a general ...

  9. Statute of the International Court of Justice - Wikipedia

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    The Statute is divided into 5 chapters and consists of 70 articles. The Statute begins with Article 1 proclaiming: "The international Court of Justice established by the Charter of the United Nations as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations shall be constituted and shall function in accordance with the provisions of the present Statute."