Intervening for the community? the law and politics of third-party intervention before the International Court of Justice

Intervening for the community? the law and politics of third-party intervention before the International Court of Justice

This article explains why states intervene before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and how they choose between Articles 62 and 63 of the ICJ Statute. Against accounts of a general turn from bilateralism to community interests, it offers a comprehensive mapping of all interventions and classifies them as ‘community interest’ or ‘self-interest intervention’ by reference to the rights invoked, the submissions made and the overall context of…