Practice question
A private company wants to sue a foreign State directly before the ICJ in its own name for a broken contract. What is the immediate party-status obstacle?
- The ICJ only hears municipal tax cases
- Every company is automatically a State
- The contract makes the company a UN organ
- Only States may be parties in contentious cases
- Private contracts automatically amend Article 34
Legal references
- ICJ Statute, Article 34(1): https://legal.un.org/avl/pdf/ha/sicj/icj_statute_e.pdf
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