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Comment: The compulsory jurisdiction clause under the statute of the International Court of Justice.

  • UPSC 2001, 1992
  • 20 marks
  • United Nations

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The compulsory jurisdiction clause is Article 36(2) of the ICJ Statute, better known as the "optional clause". It was a 1920 compromise: the jurists drafting the Permanent Court's Statute wanted general compulsory jurisdiction, the great powers refused, and the Brazilian delegate Raul Fernandes proposed that each state could opt in. The ICJ inherited the formula…

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