STATUTE
OF THE
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter I: Organization of the Court (Articles 2 - 33)
Chapter II: Competence of the Court (Articles 34 - 38)
Chapter III: Procedure (Articles 39 - 64)
Chapter IV: Advisory Opinions (Arti必读书单
cles 65 - 68)
Chapter V: Amendment (Articles 69 & 70)
Article 1
The International Court of Justice established by the Charter of the United Nations as the pr
incipal judicial organ of the United Nations shall be constituted and shall function in accordance with the provisions of the prent Statute.
CHAPTER I - ORGANIZATION OF THE COURT
Article 2
The Court shall be compod of a body of independent judges, elected regardless of their nationality from among persons of high moral character, who posss the qualifications required in their respective countries for appointment to the highest judicial offices, or are jurisconsults of recognized competence in international law.
Article 3
1. The Court shall consist of fifteen members, no two of whom may be nationals of the same state.
2. A person who for the purpos of membership in the Court could be regarded as a nati
onal of more than one state shall be deemed to be a national of the one in which he ordinarily exercis civil and political rights.
Article 4
1. The members of the Court shall be elected by the General Asmbly and by the Security Council from a list of persons nominated by the national groups in the Permanent Court of Arbitration, in accordance with the following provisions.
2. In the ca of Members of the United Nations not reprented in the Permanent Court of Arbitration, candidates shall be nominated by national groups appointed for this purpo by their governments under the same conditions as tho prescribed for members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration by Article 44 of the Convention of The Hague of 1907 for the pacific ttlement of international disputes.
3. The conditions under which a state which is a party to the prent Statute but is not a Member of the United Nations may participate in electing the members of the Court shall,
in the abnce of a special agreement, be laid down by the General Asmbly upon recommendation of the Security Council.
Article 5
1. At least three months before the date of the election, the Secretary-General of the United Nations shall address a written request to the members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration belonging to the states which are parties to the prent Statute, and to the members of the national groups appo部队检讨
inted under Article 4, paragraph 2, inviting them to undertake, within a given time, by national groups, the nomination of persons in a position to accept the duties of a member of the Court.
2. No group may nominate more than four persons, not more than two of whom shall be of their own nationality. In no ca may the number of candidates nominated by a group be more than double the number of ats to be filled.
Article 6
Before making the nominations, each national group is recommended to consult its highest court of justice, its legal faculties and s姜子牙的故事
chools of law, and its national academies and national ctions of international academies devoted to the study of law.
Article 7
1. The Secretary-General shall prepare a list in alphabetical order of all the persons thus nominated. Save as provided in Article 12, paragraph 2, the shall be the only persons eligible.
2. The Secretary-General shall submit this list to the General Asmbly and to the Security Council.
Article 8
The General Asmbly and the Security Coun取代
cil shall proceed independently of one another to elect the 红心杰克
members of the Court.
Article 9
At every election, the electors shall bear in mind not only that the persons to be elected should individually posss the qualifications required, but also that in the body as a whole the reprentation of the main forms of civilization and of the principal legal systems of the world should be assured.
Article 10
1. Tho candidates who obtain an absolute majority of votes in the General Asmbly and in the Security Council shall be considered as elected.
2. Any vote of the Security Council, whether for the election of judges or for the appointment of members of the conference envisaged in Article 12, shall be taken without any distinction between permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council.
3. In the event of more than one national of the same state obtaining an absolute majority of the votes both of the General Asmbly and of the Security Council, the eldest of the only shall be considered as elected.
