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Islamic Law States
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2022
Does a domestic constitutional court within a state encourage greater acceptance of the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)? This question is particularly relevant in Islamic law states (ILS). One might expect that ILS, which embrace the rule of law domestically, might do so internationally. However, this expectation paints an overly simplistic picture of the constitutional court’s role and its relationship with domestic and international politics. Employing original data on constitutional references to constitutional courts (1946–2012), we show that in the context of ILS, acceptance of the ICJ’s jurisdiction is conditional on an independent constitutional court.
Preliminary versions of this article were presented at Northwestern University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Notre Dame. We thank Jeffrey Harden, Emma Rosenberg, participants at the Power and International Law Workshop and Constitutional Change Conference, and the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments. We are also grateful to Erin Shang for excellent research assistance. Replication materials are available in the JLC Dataverse at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/BVQFPO.