The International Court of Justice Is Fundamentally Flawed
A not-so-independent judiciary.
January 30, 2024
A not-so-independent judiciary.
When international law is applied to Israel, Shany Mor recently wrote, it doesn’t function like law at all, in the sense of general rules applied consistently to particular cases. Another basic requirement for a legal system is that judges are impartial and free to evaluate cases on their merits. But this too is something the International Court of Justice lacks, as Peter Berkowitz observes:
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