In 1991 Manfred Lachs asserted that ‘it is difficult […] in our day to deny the existence of a “juridical international community”, imperfect and incomplete as it may be’.1 The affirmation of peremptory norms, and of erga omnes obligations, the articulation of the concept of international crimes, now replaced with the concept of serious breaches of peremptory norms of general international law, are normative evolutions which have, little by little, contributed to the emergence of this abstract entity. But, if the phrase ‘international community’ is nowadays...
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