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Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America) Judgments
- Correspondence
Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against...
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Fixing of time-limits: Memorial and Counter-Memorial...
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United States of America) - Request for the indication of...
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Exhibits and Documents submitted by Nicaragua and the United...
- Intervention
United States of America) - Intervention Written...
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The subsequent proceedings took place in the absence of the...
- United States of America
Aerial Incident of 7 October 1952 (United States of America...
- Correspondence
The Republic of Nicaragua v. The United States of America (1986) was a case where the International Court of Justice (ICJ) held that the U.S. had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Sandinistas and by mining Nicaragua's harbors.
May 2, 2012 · Abstract. The notion of ‘armed attack’ is at the heart of the law on the use of force in self-defence. The ICJ first addressed the issue in its judgment in Nicaragua; however, its formulation of the legal parameters of ‘armed attack’ has not been without controversy.
- Judge Abdulqawi A. Yusuf
- 2012
Jun 27, 2024 · With hindsight, Judges Lachs and Oda expressed their regrets for not having admitted El Salvador's request for permission to intervene – see [1986] ICJ Rep., at 170–1, and 244, para. 66 – Judge Lachs calling it a ‘judicial error’.
- Cristina Hoss, Santiago Villalpando, Sandesh Sivakumaran
- 2012
Nov 22, 2017 · The 1986 judgment in Nicaragua v. United States is of seminal importance in the development of international law governing the use of force, crowning a process of legal development that began in the first decades of the century.
- William A. Schabas, William A. Schabas, William A. Schabas
- w.schabas@mdx.ac.uk
- 2018
Report of the International Court of Justice, 1 August 1985-31 July 1986. ICJ. 1986
In June 1985, the United States Congress was asked to approve the appropriation of $38 million to fund military or paramilitary activities against Nicaragua during the fiscal years 1985 and 1986 (ending 30 September 1986). This appropriation was approved by the Senate on 7 June 1985.
