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Part III The Sources of International Responsibility, Ch.33.2 Circumstances Precluding Wrongfulness in the ILC Articles on State Responsibility: Compliance with Peremptory Norms

Maja Ménard

From: The Law of International Responsibility

Edited By: James Crawford, Alain Pellet, Simon Olleson, Kate Parlett

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 30 March 2023

Peremptory norms of international law—jus cogens—incorporate the fundamental values of the international community. A peremptory norm of general international law is a mandatory norm, one from which no derogation is permitted. They have two main functions: on the one hand, the protection of interests that are superior to the States’ individual interests—the interests of the international community and the international order; on the other hand, the protection of the State against its own weaknesses or against the power of some of its partners, in particular within...
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