Practice question
Under Article 59, an ICJ decision has binding force between whom and in what scope?
- All States for every future case.
- The parties, in respect of that particular case.
- Only the judges who voted for it.
- Every State that reads it.
- Only States that agree with its reasoning afterward.
Legal references
- ICJ Statute, Articles 38(1)(d) and 59: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/statute-of-the-international-court-of-justice
- ILC, Conclusions on Identification of Customary International Law (2018), Conclusions 2 and 12–14: https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/draft_articles/1_13_2018.pdf
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