Reassessing State Consent to Jurisdiction

Autor:	Tom Sparks
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	International court Jurisdiction Formalism (philosophy) media_common.quotation_subject International law Sovereignty State (polity) Law Political science Political Science and International Relations International legal system media_common Adjudication
Zdroj:	Nordic Journal of International Law. 91:216-252
ISSN:	1571-8107 0902-7351
Popis:	In Monetary Gold Removed from Rome, the International Court of Justice first articulated the “Monetary Gold rule”: the principle that it cannot rule on cases in which the conduct of a State not party to the proceedings forms the “very subject-matter” of the dispute. That principle is taken to be a fundamental rule of international law, deriving its force from the sovereignty of States and the nature of the international legal system. This article will dispute that claim, and will argue that the principle of consent underpinning Monetary Gold is an empty formalism. Through a comparison of the Court’s approach in its contentious and advisory jurisdictions, it will ask to what States consent and for what purpose they do so, when they “consent to jurisdiction”, and no satisfactory answer will be found. It will conclude that the focus on consent in international adjudication is discretionary.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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