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Introduction to the Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ

[Jinan Bastaki is Associate Professor of Legal Studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi.] The International Court of Justice’s proceedings in Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in Respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v. Germany) raise questions that extend well beyond the immediate dispute between the two States. At their core is the question of when international law can hold one...