The case where the ICJ noted that self-determination is, indeed, an erga omnes obligation.
What is the East Timor case?
100
The number of NATO states against which Yugoslavia instituted proceedings in the Legality of Use of Force cases?
What is 10 states? (United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Portugal, and Spain)
100
The ICJ cited this erga omnes right of the Palestinian people as the basis for its holding that Israel's construction of the wall violated international law in the Wall Advisory Opinion case.
What is the right to self-determination?
100
The issue before the ICJ in the Nuclear Weapons advisory opinion?
What is ‘Is the threat or use of nuclear weapons in any circumstance permitted under international law?’?
100
The three times of jurisdiction the Court must possess in order to hear a claim.
What are personal (ratione personae), subject matter (ratione materiae), and temporal (ratione temporis)?
200
The intervening State in the Jurisdictional Immunities of the State case.
What is Greece?
200
The three states against which the Democratic Republic of Congo initiated proceedings against in the Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo Cases.
What are Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda?
200
The dual holding from the ICJ related to the status of nuclear weapons under customary international law in the Nuclear Weapons advisory opinion. (Hint: There are two pieces to the holding).
What is that nuclear weapons are neither specifically authorized nor prohibited under customary international law.
200
The two primary issues raised by the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Arrest Warrant case?
What is whether Belgium violated the DRC's sovereignty and whether the arrest warrant violated international law pertaining to the immunity of high-ranking State officials?
200
The three different legal paradigms in use of force law under which a State may be acting, two of which can overlap.
What is human rights law, self-defense law, and armed conflict law (or international humanitarian law)?
300
The ICJ held that it had jurisdiction over the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY - or Serbia and Montenegro) despite the fact that a U.N. General Assembly Resolution stated that FRY did not automatically do these things.
What is could continue in, or succeed to, the U.N. membership of socialist Yugoslavia?
300
The U.S. failed to perform this obligation under The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations in the LaGrand case, and acknowledged its failure to do these things.
What is the obligaiton to inform the LaGrand brothers, without delay, after their arrest and detention of their right to communicate with the consulate of Germany?
300
The ICJ found that Belgium had jurisdiction in the Obligation to Extradite or Prosecute Case under this doctrine.
What are obligations erga omnes partes?
(Meaning a State may bring a claim against another State, regardless of direct injury, based on violations of erga omnes obligations contained within a treaty regime if both States are party to the treaty).
300
Italy asked the ICJ to decide it had immunity based on the location of the act, under this theory. (Name and explanation of the theory).
What is the theory of a "territorial tort," in which Italy would be entitled to ignore immunity because torts were committed on Italian territory?
300
In the Wall Advisory Opinion, the ICJ held that the Israeli wall constituted a violation of this prohibition, as articulated under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter.
What is the prohibition against the illegal use or threat of force?
400
The ultimate rule from the LaGrand case, which the ICJ held for the first time in its jurisprudence.
What is the rule that provisional measures under Article 41 of the ICJ Statute are binding on States?
400
The parties to the Pulp Mills case.
What are Argentina and Uruguay?
400
The ICJ held in the Genocide cases that Serbia had not committed genocide, but it had failed to do this regarding genocide itself.
What is to prevent genocide?
400
In the Cameroon-Nigeria boundary case, the ICJ held that Equatorial Guinea could intervene because it possessed this, relating to it the maritime boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria?
What is an interest of a legal nature? (Or a legal interest?)
400
Judge Weearmentary stated in his separate opinion to East Timor that a state could have standing under this type of norm.
What are erga omnes obligations?
500
In the Aveena case, the ICJ held that, pending the determination of the case, the United States should not execute three named Mexican nationals due for early execution and cited this case for that proposition.
What is the LaGrand Case?
500
The U.S. defended its attack of the Iranian oil platforms in the Oil Platforms case based on this doctrine of use of force law, which the Court rejected because there an essential element activating this right was not proven?
What is (individual) self-defense?
500
The ICJ held that it did not have jurisdiction, ratione personae, over the claims submitted by Yugoslavia in the Legality of the Use of Force cases (in most of the cases), because of this reason.
What is the fact that Serbia and Montenegro were not party to the U.N. at the time of the application?
(and not being a member of the United Nations, equally could not be a party to the Statute of the I.C.J.)
500
The issue before the ICJ in the 2012 case between Belgium and Senegal.
What is whether Senegal was obligated to extradite or prosecute Chad’s former head of state, Mr. Hissène Habré, for his alleged crimes, including torture?
500
The two ways in which the ICJ can obtain personal jurisdiction over a State.
What is being a party to the ICJ Statute or being a member of the UN (and ipso facto party to the ICJ Statute)?