Nick Gonzalez

About/Bio

Nick Gonzalez is an undergraduate student at Columbia University, where he majors in political science with a concentration in international relations. Most recently, he interned at the Permanent Mission of Ecuador to the United Nations, in New York. His research interests center on informal norms and inherited narratives in Latin American politics and international relations, and how they shape institutional legitimacy.

Recently Published

The ICJ’s Unwritten Rulebook: Regional Succession and Institutional Equilibrium

For almost eighty years, United Nations Member States have behaved as if a mandate required them to maintain regional continuity in elections to the International Court of Justice. Yet, the Court's Statute contains no such rule. Article 9 requires only that the Court, taken as a whole, represent “the principal legal systems and civilizations of the world”;…

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