Pick and Choose at the ICJ - An Appraisal of the Recent Provisional Measures Orders of the ICJ

Pick and Choose at the ICJ - An Appraisal of the Recent Provisional Measures Orders of the ICJ Foysal, Quazi Omar Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-10-17 eng The International Court of Justice has recently begun to deviate from its own standards. Three cases illustrate the emergence of a new approach to assessing “circumstances” required for the indication of provisional measures under Article 41 of the ICJ Statute. Traditionally, the Court has applied a structured five-prong chronological test, established in Belgium v. Senegal. In contrast, it now seems to adopt a more selective, “pick-and-choose” approach to that test. While giving the Court a certain degree of flexibility in assessing the circumstances, this approach creates risks of arbitrariness and unpredictability. CC BY-SA 4.0 Foysal, Quazi Omar Article 41 of the ICJ Statute ICJ International Law Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag Provisional Measures Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/icj-pmo-five-prong-test/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/3fd1c177aaac3d5c 251017 10.59704/3fd1c177aaac3d5c Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)