20 February The International Court of Justice & Nuclear Weapons
In October 2016, the ICJ delivered judgments in the case of “Obligations concerning Negotiations relating to Cessation of the Nuclear Arms Race and to Nuclear Disarmament” - Marshall Islands v. the United Kingdom, India and Pakistan, the three states that remained out of the nine states, against which the Marshall Islands had filed Applications. The Marshall Islands contended that the nuclear powers did not fulfill their obligations under Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty ‘to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to […] nuclear disarmament’.
The very notion of this provision figured prominently in the ICJ’s 1996 Advisory Opinion on the “Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons” at the request of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
The event will deal with the history of the Case and the Advisory Opinion (AO), as well as the relevant issues of international law and arms control law.
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