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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Connally Reservation

Carsten Stahn

Content type:
Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
December 2006

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 10 December 2024

Subject(s):
Recognition and enforcement

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 On 14 August 1946, the United States qualified its acceptance of the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) under Art. 36 (2) Statute of the International Court of Justice (the ‘Optional Clause’ International Court of Justice, Optional Clause) in its Declaration of Acceptance (‘1946 Declaration’) through a clause which excludes ‘disputes with regard to matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States of America as determined by the United States of America’ (emphasis added). This clause is known as...
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