Profili evolutivi dell'intervento nel processo davanti alla Corte internazionale di giustizia

The authors provide a general overview of intevention before the International Court of Justice in order to assess the possibility to use this incidental proceeding for the protection of community interests. The forms of intervention before the Court are addressed first, along with their requirements as clarified in the Court’s case-law. Then, attention is drawn to the recent and unprecedented wave of intervention requests under Article 63 of the ICJ Statute. It is maintained that one of the reasons for this unexpected situation is the protection of general interests of the international community. The article accordingly explores the alternative venue of using intervention under Article 62 of the Statute for the same purpose. The procedural aspects of the protection of such interests are discussed first and the limits of intervention before the ICJ beyond the protection of purely bilateral interests are illustreated at the end.