The President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Mr Ronny Abraham, provided the CAHDI with an overview of selected challenges currently being faced by the ICJ.  In his presentation Mr Abraham underlined that during 2016 the ICJ experienced a high level of judicial activity and he observed that most of these cases relate to preliminary objections concerning either jurisdiction or admissibility of certain claims. Furthermore he focused on the essential question of the jurisdiction of the ICJ and noted that jurisdiction would be less frequently based on declarations recognising the jurisdiction of the ICJ as compulsory pursuant to Article 36 of the ICJ Statute than on jurisdictional clauses, so-called compromissory clauses, contained in multilateral treaties concerning a specific subject matter.