How the World Court Actually Works (via a Genocide Case)

The International Court of Justice isn’t a global supreme court. Its jurisdiction is consensual, its judgments are binding but unenforceable, and its procedures are slow. This episode uses the South Africa v. Israel genocide case to walk through every major mechanism the ICJ has: jurisdiction via the Genocide Convention’s compromissory clause, emergency provisional measures, third-party intervention, and the enforcement gap at the Security Council. We cover which states joined the case, what provisional measures the Court actually ordered (and what it didn’t), and why the merits phase will take years. Episode #207741 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/207741