Based on the International Court of Justice's 2012 judgment concerning the application filed by Nicaragua against Colombia, this article explains how this court applied various methods of legal interpretation that treat legal sources differently., These forms of interpretation are essential when states decide to take their disputes to an international tribunal since the various ways these cases can be resolved have their own logic and they cannot be evaluated according to domestic law principles.
Keywords:
legal interpretation, role of the international judge, sources of international law, International Court of Justice, dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua
Author Biography
Alexander Cruz Martínez, Universidad Jorge Tadeo de Bogotá
Abogado, Universidad de Ibagué, Colombia; Magíster en derecho administrativo de la Universidad del Rosario, Colombia y en políticas públicas, de la Universidad de Chile. Doctor (c) en derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Cruz Martínez, A. (2014). Legal interpretation by the ICJ in the territorial and maritime dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia. Estudios Internacionales, 46(178), 111–131. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2014.32526
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