What Is Active Retention?

Automatic retention is also called "self-judgment retention" and "arbitrary retention." What the parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice make when making a statement under optional clauses is for the parties to judge for themselves whether the court has reservations over a particular case. More often take the form of "national disputes that are essentially related to matters within the domestic jurisdiction of the country are not under the jurisdiction of the court". ^[1]