Espósito: Jus Cogens and Jurisdictional Immunities of States at the International Court of Justice: A Conflict Does Exist

Carlos Espósito (University Autónoma of Madrid - Law) has posted Jus Cogens and Jurisdictional Immunities of States at the International Court of Justice: A Conflict Does Exist (Italian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 21, 2012). Here's the abstract:

In its judgment of 3 February 2012 in Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v Italy: Greece intervening), the International Court of Justice has considered the relationship between jus cogens and the rule of State immunity. The Court has denied the existence of a jus cogens exception to the rule of State jurisdictional immunities based primarily on the distinction between peremptory norms as rules of substance and jurisdictional immunities as rules of procedure. For the Court, a conflict between rules on jurisdictional immunities, 'essentially procedural in nature,' and substantive rules of jus cogens is conceptually impossible.

Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia) - Conclusion of the public hearings

Court to begin its deliberation
THE HAGUE, 9 May 2012. The public hearings in the case concerning the Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia) were concluded on Friday 4 May. The Court will now begin its deliberation.

During the hearings, which opened on Monday 23 April 2012 at the Peace Palace, seat of the Court, the delegation of the Republic of Nicaragua was led by H.E. Mr. Carlos José Argüello Gómez, Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as Agent and Counsel; and the delegation of the Republic of Colombia was led by H.E. Mr. Julio Londoño Paredes, Professor of International Relations, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, as Agent and Counsel.

The Court’s Judgment will be rendered at a public sitting, the date of which will be announced in due course.

von Bogdandy & Venzke: International Judicial Lawmaking: On Public Authority and Democratic Legitimation in Global Governance

Armin von Bogdandy (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht) & Ingo Venzke (Univ. of Amsterdam - Law) have published International Judicial Lawmaking: On Public Authority and Democratic Legitimation in Global Governance (Springer 2012). Contents include:

Indian judge elected to serve on UN International Court of Justice

Dalveer Bhandari of India was elected today, during simultaneous balloting in both the General Assembly and the Security Council, to a seat on the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.

Mr. Bhandari’s term at the ICJ, which is also known as the World Court and is based in The Hague in the Netherlands, begins immediately and runs through 5 February 2018.

Nicaragua insiste en soberanía de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina

Este miércoles (25 de abril) Colombia empieza su defensa ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia.
La delegación de Nicaragua continúo defendiendo la soberanía del archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina en el pleito que sobre esos territorios en el mar Caribe mantiene Managua contra Colombia ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ).
El embajador de Nicaragua en Holanda, Carlos José Argüello Gómez, ha seguido trazando su argumentación y explicando mediante mapas y otros documentos gráficos cuál debe ser la delimitación marítima correcta según Managua y que otorgaría a su país la soberanía de los territorios en conflicto.
Nicaragua, que defendió este lunes durante su primer turno de palabra la nulidad del tratado de 1928 sobre el dominio colombiano de San Andrés, dado que el país se encontraba bajo ocupación de Estados Unidos, ha explicado que ese acuerdo no fijó límites marítimos claros.