How the Awareness Criterion for Establishment of Dispute is Antithetical to Judicial Economy

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Lovish Garg is an undergraduate law student from the NALSAR University of Law, India. He is the associate editor of the Indian Journal of Air and Space Law. His areas of interest include Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), Aviation Law and International Refugee Law.

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How the Awareness Criterion for Establishment of Dispute is Antithetical to Judicial Economy

November 10, 2016

Lovish Garg

The International Court of Justice recently in the case concerning the Negotiations relating to Cessation of the Nuclear Arms Race and Nuclear Disarmament ruled that it lacked the necessary jurisdiction, due to the absence of a ‘legal dispute’ between the parties. The Republic of Marshall Islands had sued the nuclear world powers (the application…