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Is There a Dispute at All? The Existence of a Legal Dispute and the Critical Date before the International Court of Justice
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Abstract
Chapter 2 of 20 — part of a research treatise in public international law by S.S.Bukhari (The Scholarly Nexus, October 2026), examining ICJ jurisdiction and procedure, expropriation and investment protection, targeted sanctions, the law of the sea, refugee protection, and the formation of customary international law.
Before the International Court of Justice can reach the merits of anything, it must be satisfied of something more elementary: that there is a dispute. This article traces the existence requirement from the Mavrommatis definition through the Marshall Islands cases' awareness requirement and the critical-date doctrine.
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BibTeX
@misc{bukhari2026there,
title = {{Is There a Dispute at All? The Existence of a Legal Dispute and the Critical Date before the International Court of Justice}},
author = {S.S. Bukhari},
howpublished = {Zenodo},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23474706},
url = {https://zenodo.org/records/23474706},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Is There a Dispute at All? The Existence of a Legal Dispute and the Critical Date before the International Court of Justice
AU - S.S. Bukhari
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/19
PB - Zenodo
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23474706
UR - https://zenodo.org/records/23474706
AB - Chapter 2 of 20 — part of a research treatise in public international law by S.S.Bukhari (The Scholarly Nexus, October 2026), examining ICJ jurisdiction and procedure, expropriation and investment protection, targeted sanctions, the law of the sea, refugee protection, and the formation of customary international law. Before the International Court of Justice can reach the merits of anything, it must be satisfied of something more elementary: that there is a dispute. This article traces the existence requirement from the Mavrommatis definition through the Marshall Islands cases' awareness requirement and the critical-date doctrine.
ER -