01
Oct
Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ – Empty Promises: Germany’s Questionable Commitment to International Law
[Matthias Goldmann is Professor of International Law at EBS University (Oestrich-Winkel, Germany) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.] The recent hearings before the ICJ in the case of Nicaragua v. Germany revolved around preliminary objections. Yet the arguments the parties exchanged reached well beyond questions of admissibility and touched repeatedly...