Law 5110 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Marine Resources Conservation, Multilateral Treaty, Statute Of The International Court Of Justice
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The optional clause: optional clause: allows states to opt in to the court"s jurisdiction over disputes involving them, recognized in art. It may have reservations attaches to it: at the states own peril art. 36(2) makes jurisdiction conditional on the basis of reciprocity: self-judging reservations. Us" vandenberg amendment : excluded matters arising under art. Charter: upheld in the icj, nicaragua: the court decided that it did not excluded disputed arising under customary international law. In respect of certain geographical areas in the high seas: us reservation to the compromissory clause in the vccr, uk reservation to exclude disputes concerning nuclear weapons and disarmament. It is not unlimited: in respect of the fundamental object and purpose of a treaty. Preliminary objections: preliminary objections: a state may challenge the jurisdiction of the court on the basis that it has not validly consented to it or that the two parties do not agree to the extent of the.
