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Sep
Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ – From Historical Context to Succeeding Conduct: Germany’s Arms Transfers and the Temporal Scope of ICJ Jurisdiction
[Dr Nahed Samour is Associate Researcher at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.] While the oral hearings in the ICJ Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v. Germany) from September 7-10, 2026 raise questions of jurisdiction and admissibility only, it would be misleading to understand the question of temporal limitations (ratione temporis) as...