The So, Hi comrades and relatives welcome back to the Red Nation podcast. I'm Jen Marley, your

host. Today we have with us a very special guest. I'd like to welcome

Professor Miriam Jamschidi. She is an

international law professor and would you please introduce yourself?

Hi, it's wonderful to be here.

So yeah, I'm an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado Boulder Law School,

where I teach public international law, national security, the law of foreign relations, and tort law.

And a lot of my scholarship is about sort of the role of private parties in international law,

and national security, and the law of foreign relations.

Oh wow that is profoundly interesting we can have several conversations.

Yeah, so today we're trying to focus on the recent ICJ ruling.

Palestine is on everybody's hearts and minds as it has been.

Real quickly, just for our viewers, can you explain what the ICJ is?

How did this entity come into existence

and what is its function in holding countries accountable?

Okay, so the International Court of Justice is the primary judicial organ for the United Nations.

It came into existence in 1945 along with the United Nations itself. It did have a precursor

court. We don't need to really worry about that, but there was a League of Nations that also predated the UN.

And that institution had a court of its own,

but the ICJ is modeled on.

So the ICJ is a court that primarily hears cases brought by states

against other states.

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