An Analysis of the Case Law of the International Court of Justice on the Paradigm Shift in Jurisdiction and its Interaction with Other Critical Principles of International Law

Abstract

On the international plane, there has been an increasing encroachment on the sanctity of the domaine reserve of states, through the necessity to extend the regular notion of territorial jurisdiction, extraterritorially. In this regard therefore, there has been a paradigm shift in the way that jurisdiction is viewed, due to the contemporary challenges posed at the international level. This paper seeks to situate the extensions of jurisdiction within the existing framework governing jurisdictional competence, emphasizing the value of the paradigm shift in addressing critical contemporary challenges on the international stage. This is achieved primarily through an analysis of the case law of the International Court of Justice on matters of extraterritorial jurisdiction.