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100
After this case was decided, Columbia asked for an interpretation of the judgment by the ICJ because of too many gaps in the reasoning, a request which the Court declined.
What is the Asylum Case?
100
The state where Nottebohm was born.
What is Germany?
100
In this case the ICJ noted there can be regional or local customary international law.
What is the Asylum Case?
100
The case decided in 1969 in which the ICJ was asked to apply the equidistance principle?
What is the North Sea Continental Shelf Case?
100
The ICJ decided it had jurisdiction over the U.S. in the Nicaragua case, despite of its inability to base jurisdiction on the ICJ Statute, because this norm applied?
What is customary international law?
200
The State parties to the Lichtenstein case.
What are Liechtenstein and Guatemala?
200
One of the first cases the ICJ decided involving a plebiscite with an issue arising about potential violations of a Trusteeship agreement.
What is the Northern Cameroons case?
200
The main holding from the ICJ in the North Sea Continental Shelf case relating to customary international law.
What is the the rule that the practice of states must be sufficiently extensive and uniform to crystallize customary international law?
200
The two issues raised by the U.K. in the Corfu Channel case?
What is whether Albania was internationally responsible for the damage and loss of life caused by the mines, and whether Albania had a duty to pay compensation to the U.K.?
200
The rule related to inferences from the Corfu Channel case.
What is that the Court may make reasonable inferences of fact where there is only circumstantial evidence, especially where one party fails to provide evidence in its control?
300
The case in which the ICJ ordered provisional measures requiring one State party to immediately to ensure the restoration of diplomatic and consular premises, and return all personnel, to the other State party.
What is the U.S. Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran Case?
300
The Administering Authority state in the Northern Cameroons case.
What is the United Kingdom?
300
The case in which the ICJ decided that Morocco did not have sovereignty over certain lands?
What is the Western Sahara Advisory Opinion Case?
300
In this case, the ICJ was asked whether the U.K. or France had title over a group of tiny islands.
What is the Minquiers and Ecrehos case?
300
The case in which the ICJ found that the right to self-defense is also customary international law?
What is the Nicaragua case?
400
The case in which the ICJ discussed its own jurisdiction, ex proprio motu, in accordance with its practice, and held that it had jurisdiction when one of the parties (Iceland) failed to appear for the proceedings.
What is the Fisheries Jurisdiction Cases (of 1972)?
400
The distance which Iceland was claiming it had sovereignty over related to its fishing rights in the Fisheries Jurisdiction cases?
What is 50 nautical miles?
400
The main legal test the Court announced in the Nottebohm case.
What is the genuine connection for nationality test?
400
The main issue before the Court in the Western Sahara Advisory Opinion case.
What is whether Western Sahara at the time of colonization by Spain was a territory belonging to no one (terra nullius)?
400
This case is where the "effective control test" first originated.
What is the Nicaragua case?
500
The argument the U.S. advanced as to why the ICJ did not have jurisdiction over it in the Nicaragua Case?
What is the "multilateral treaty reservation" declaration (relating to the U.S.'s compulsory jurisdiction)?
500
The case where the ICJ found an important cultural object was situated in territory under Cambodian sovereignty, and that Thailand was under an obligation to restore to Cambodia objects removed by Thai authorities.
What is the Temple of Preah Vihear Case?
500
The ICJ's holding related to the equidistance principle in the North Sea Continental Shelf case.
What is that the equidistance principle was not inherent in the basic doctrine of the continental shelf and was not customary international law?
500
The primary issue before the Court in the Nicaragua case.
What is whether the U.S. is internationally responsible for the acts of the El Salvadoran contras?
500
The case in which the ICJ thoroughly discussed the two part test for state responsibility, particularly the element of imputability?
What is the U.S. Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran Case?
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