State responsibility — Nature and kinds of — For revocation of, or interference with, concessions or concessionary contracts — Purported nullification of contract by Iran — Whether engaging State responsbility — lran — United States Claims Settlement Declaration, 1981 — The law and practice of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal

Disputes — Arbitration — Procedure — Competence — Contractual claim — Purported annulment of contract — Whether affecting jurisdiction — Iran-United States Claims Settlement Declaration, 1981, Article II(1) — The law and practice of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal

State responsibility — Nature and kinds of — For revocation of, or interference with, concessions or concessionary contracts — Purported nullification of contract by Iran — Whether engaging State responsibility — Iran — United States Claims Settlement Declaration, 1981 — The law and practice of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal

Disputes — Arbitration — Procedure — Competence — Contractual claim — Purported annulment of contract — Iran-United States Claims Settlement Declaration, 1981, Article II(1) — The law and practice of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal

International law in general — Nature and binding force — Judicial decisions — International Court of Justice — Effect of decision upon States not party to a case

State territory — Parts of-Continental shelf — Dispute concerning delimitation of continental shelf before International Court of Justice — Possible relevance of decision for claims to sovereign rights of proximate State not party to case — Whether rights safeguarded by Article 59 of Statute of the International Court of Justice, 1945

Treaties — Interpretation of — Consideration of preparatory work — Statute of the International Court of Justice, 1945, Article 62 — Application for permission to intervene — Whether jurisdictional link between intervening State and original parties required

Treaties — Interpretation of — Miscellaneous — Statute of the International Court of Justice, 1945 — Articles 59 and 62 — Respective spheres of application

Disputes — International Court of Justice — Contentious jurisdiction — Procedure — Application for permission to intervene — Statute of the International Court of Justice, 1945, Article 62 — Requirement that intervener show an interest of a legal nature which might be affected by decision — Scope of — Object of intervention — Court asked to take account of intervener's claims to sovereign rights — Whether Court thereby called upon to recognize rights — Nature of intervention — Introduction of a fresh dispute — Principle of consent underlying jurisdiction of the Court — Whether jurisdictional link between intervening State and original parties required — Whether Article 62 itself providing basis of jurisdiction — Protection of legal interests of third States — Statute of the International Court of Justice, 1945, Article 59 — Procedural economy of means — Treaties — Interpretation of — Miscellaneous — Respective spheres of application — Consideration of preparatory work

Disputes — International Court of Justice — Contentious jurisdiction — Procedure — Application for permission to intervene — Statute of the International Court of Justice, 1945, Article 62 — Requirement that intervener show an interest of a legal nature which might be affected by decision — Scope of — Object of intervention — Court asked to take account of intervener's claims to sovereign rights — Whether Court thereby called upon to recognize rights — Nature of intervention — Introduction of a fresh dispute — Principle of consent underlying jurisdiction of the Court — Whether jurisdictional link between intervening State and original parties required — Whether Article 62 itself providing basis of jurisdiction — Protection of legal interests of third States — Statute of the International Court of Justice, 1945, Article 59 — Procedural economy of means — Treaties — Interpretation of — Miscellaneous — Respective spheres of application — Consideration of preparatory work

States as international persons — In general — Sovereignty and independence — In foreign relations — Slovakia — Establishment in 1939 — Whether a sovereign independent State — Whether responsible under international law for the diplomatic protection of its nationals abroad — Germany — Slovakia Treaty of Protection, 1939 — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany

The individual in international law — Nationality — Acquisition of — Nationality as affected by change of sovereignty — Germany Slovakia Treaty of Protection, 1939 — Whether acquisition of Slovak nationality under treaty compatible with international law — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany

The individual in international law — Nationality — As determining the right of protection of citizens abroad — Germany Slovakia Treaty of Protection, 1939 — Whether retroactive acquisition of Slovak nationality under treaty compatible with international law — Whether German Reich or Slovakia under duty to provide diplomatic protection to Slovak nationals abroad — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany

War and neutrality — War in general — Enforcement of the laws of war — Compensation and reparation — Person of Jewish descent and German ethnic origin — Emigration from Slovakia to Italy to avoid Nazi persecution — Internment by Italy during Second World War — Whether entitled to compensation from Federal Republic of Germany — Entitlement dependant on loss of German nationality and diplomatic protection of German Reich — Effect of change of sovereignty on nationality — Germany-Slovakia Treaty of Protection, 1939 — Whether retroactive acquisition of Slovak nationality under treaty compatible with international law — Whether German Reich or Slovakia under duty to provide protection to Slovak nationals abroad — Lack of independence of Slovakia — Whether occupying power in wartime under duty to provide protection to nationals of occupied territory abroad — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany