OUVRAGE : E. Sobenes Obregon, B. Samson (eds.), Nicaragua Before the International Court of Justice: Impacts on International Law

Edgardo SOBENES OBREGON, Benjamin SAMSON 

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, respondent or intervening State, thus setting an important example of committment to the peaceful judicial settlement of disputes. The “Nicaraguan” cases have enabled the ICJ to take positions on and clarify a whole range of important procedural, jurisdictional and substantive legal issues, which have inspired the jurisprudence of international and regional courts and tribunals and influenced the development of international law. The book focuses on reviewing Nicaragua's cases before the ICJ, using a thematic approach to identify their impact on international law. Each chapter includes a discussion of the relevant cases on a particular theme and their impact over time on general, as well as specific branches of international law, notably through their use as precedent by other international and regional courts and tribunals.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Mohammed Bedjaoui, Introduction from the Bench

Alain Pellet, Introduction from the Podium  

Paul S. Reichler, Yuri B. Parkhomenko, Nicaragua v. United States and Matters of Evidence before the International Court of Justice  

Fernando Lusa Bordin, The Nicaragua v. United States Case: An Overview of the Epochal Judgments 

Daniel Müller, The Saga of the 1858 Treaty of Limits: The Cases Against Costa Rica  

Lawrence H. Martin, Yuri B. Parkhomenko, The Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia) and its Implications for Future Maritime Delimitations in the Caribbean Sea and Elsewhere  

Antonio Remiro Brotóns, The Pact of Bogotá in the Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice  

Brian McGarry, Nicaragua’s Impacts on Optional Clause Practice  

Antonios Tzanakopoulos, Anna Ventouratou, Nicaragua in the International Court of Justice and the Law of Treaties  

Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Customary Law, General Principles, Unilateral Acts  

Vaughan Lowe, Customary Principle of Sovereignty of States in the Nicaragua Case  

Benjamin Samson, Tessa Barsac, The Law of State Responsibility in the Nicaraguan Cases 

William Schabas, The Use of Force in the Nicaraguan Cases  

Donald R. Rothwell, International Law of the Sea and the Nicaraguan Cases 

Alina Miron, Intervention  

Hugh Thirlway, Provisional Measures  

Edgardo Sobenes Obregon, Joinder of Cases: Strengthening the Sound Administration of Justice and the Judicial Economy  

Pierre d’Argent, Conclusions

Edgardo SOBENES OBREGON, Benjamin SAMSON (eds.), Nicaragua Before the International Court of Justice: Impacts on International Law, Cham, Springer, 2018 (435 pp.)