Internal Court of Justice and its successes and failures
... Court of Arbitration. The International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, was founded in 1945. The main building is situated in The Hague, the Netherlands. These fifteen judges all collaborate to settle arguments and problems concerning states and legal issues. There are two different types of circumstances where the court has power to control: contentious issues between states, and advisory options. The contentious issues are where the court settles disagreeing states under a binding rule. Advisory opinions are questions concerning international law, commonly backed by the United Nations General Assembly. The cases are usually not specific, but generally are controversies that have come up more than once. One of the Internal Court of Justice's failures was when the United States got involved with Nicaragua's government. The U. S. was using "unlawful use of force", and withdrew its acceptance of the Court's compulsory jurisdiction in 1946. Most of the Court ruled in favor of Nicaragua, making the US pay reparations. Reparations are payments from one country (US) to another (Nicaragua) because one country (US) started a war against (Nicaragua) when they both had a peace treaty together. Unfortunately, the US never did pay that reparation to Nicaragua. First of all, it's terrible that the US declared war under a peace treaty. Second, they never ...