“Too Soon To Say”: Revisiting Article IX Reservations and the Finality of the ICJ’s Dismissal in Sudan v. United Arab Emirates

By Omar Khoury The story goes that in the 1950s, Zhou Enlai, the first premier of the People’s Republic of China, was asked by a European diplomat about the significance of the French Revolution. Though well over a century had since passed, Enlai wisely replied: “It is too soon to say.” Likewise, it may have […]