# Treaty-Delegated Jurisdiction **Entity class:** Analytic concept **Domain:** International law / sovereignty / institutional power **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition **Treaty-delegated jurisdiction** is authority that participating states confer on an institution through a treaty. The institution can interpret its mandate and issue legally consequential decisions within that system, but its authority originates in the treaty arrangement and its enforcement may still depend on states or infrastructures the institution does not control. ## ICC Application The [[wiki/International Criminal Court|International Criminal Court]] is constituted by the [[wiki/Rome Statute|Rome Statute]]. Its jurisdiction can extend to alleged conduct on the territory of a state party even when the accused is a national of a non-party. Arrest and surrender, however, remain dependent on cooperating states. This separates the authority to issue a warrant from the capacity to execute it. ## Article Function [[blog/20261009 - You Play Your Games - We Play Ours|You Play Your Games - We Play Ours]] uses the concept to name a collision: treaty-delegated jurisdictional performance meets non-consenting [[wiki/Practical Sovereignty|sovereign capacity]]. Its final formulation—“jurisdiction is not a declaration but a capacity”—states the author's hierarchy between formal legal assertion and operative power. ## Evidence Boundary This is an analytic term used by the article, not a claim that treaty jurisdiction is fictitious or that power alone determines legal validity. It distinguishes legal authorization, institutional classification, and practical enforcement so that none is mistaken for the others. ## Relationships - **General concept:** [[wiki/Jurisdiction|Jurisdiction]]. - **Treaty and institution:** [[wiki/Rome Statute|Rome Statute]] and [[wiki/International Criminal Court|International Criminal Court]]. - **Operational limit:** [[wiki/Borrowed Capacity|Borrowed Capacity]]. - **Contrasting capacity:** [[wiki/Practical Sovereignty|Practical Sovereignty]]. - **Classification layer:** [[wiki/Sovereignty by Adjudication|Sovereignty by Adjudication]].