compulsory jurisdiction

This method is based on explicit consent rather than true compulsory jurisdiction.

America, which had long been the court's champion, rejected the judgment and withdrew from compulsory jurisdiction.

But since the court's early years, the fraction of the world's nations subject to compulsory jurisdiction has declined from two-thirds to one-third.

When it lost again, it withdrew its earlier qualified acceptance of the Court's compulsory jurisdiction.

The court has no true compulsory jurisdiction.

The founders of the court of justice hoped that eventually all nations would submit to compulsory jurisdiction.

Italy has not accepted compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice.

Now Moscow for the first time is pondering a list of treaties and agreements on which it may accept the Court's compulsory jurisdiction.

It abolished the Commission, allowing individuals to apply directly to the Court, which was given compulsory jurisdiction and altered the latter's structure.

The Court's jurisdiction was largely optional, but there were some situations in which they had "compulsory jurisdiction", where states were required to refer cases to them.

There is widespread support within the association for the United States to accept once again the compulsory jurisdiction of the World Court, at least in certain cases.

Not all countries accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, ICJ.

But the U.S. abruptly ended its 40-year acceptance compulsory jurisdiction over a legal challenge to its mining of Nicaraguan ports in 1984.

The mandates invoked the compulsory jurisdiction of the Permanent Court of International Justice in the event of any disputes.

On the one hand, it is vested with an original and compulsory jurisdiction with respect to the interpretation and application of the Treaty of Chaguaramas.

And many countries that technically remain subject to compulsory jurisdiction have used various tricks to ensure that it can be used against them only in the narrowest circumstances.

In 1946, the United States accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the World Court in all cases except those falling within the jurisdiction of American courts.

Neither does the exchange of optional clauses of compulsory jurisdiction in accordance with the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Turkey has accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights and has ratified the U.N. Convention on Torture.

The United States has long accepted the Court's compulsory jurisdiction on treaty disputes, while reserving the right to reject its jurisdiction on contentious issues like the use of force.

Mr. Gorbachev had previously proposed compulsory jurisdiction for the International Court of Justice and a United Nations tribunal to deal with terrorists, among other United Nations improvements.

In 1987, upon the initiative of Mikhail Gorbachev, all of the permanent members of the Security Council began negotiations for expanding the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ.

The WTO dispute settlement body has exclusive and compulsory jurisdiction over disputes on WTO law (Article 23.1 Dispute Settlement Understanding).

The Optional Protocol provides that disputes arising out of the interpretation or application of the Vienna Convention "shall lie within the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice".

The imperfection of international law obligations, however, even where (as only seldom happens) the International Court of Justice at the Hague has compulsory jurisdiction, has severely limited the effectiveness of such schemes.