The Bush government continues its open hostility to international law by formally refusing to recognize the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, effective immediately.
This fits the recent pattern of American extreme unilateralism nicely.
So International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice are gone, which leaves the WTO dispute resolution mechanism as the only unconvenient obstacle to the great ideal of Outlaw Nation.
Update: As Michael Froomkin kindly points out in a comment, this withdrawal is only for one particular treaty. The jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice in other cases seems to be still intact for the time being.
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Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at March 11, 2005 08:26 AM