Provisional, but Not (Always) Pointless: Compliance with ICJ Provisional Measures

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Matei Alexianu is a judicial law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of international Law. He also holds a BA from the University of Oxford and a Masters from the LSE.

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Provisional, but Not (Always) Pointless: Compliance with ICJ Provisional Measures

November 3, 2023

Matei Alexianu

Provisional measures requests are keeping the International Court of Justice busy. In October alone, the Court heard requests for interim relief in two separate cases, Canada and the Netherlands v. Syria and Armenia v. Azerbaijan, and received a request in one more, Guyana v. Venezuela. This is in line with a broader…