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I General Principles and Sources of Law, Division B: Sources Of Law, Ch.I: Miscellaneous Minor Sources or Pseudo-Sources

From: The Law and Procedure of the International Court of Justice: Fifty Years of Jurisprudence Volume II

Hugh Thirlway

Content type:
Book content
Product:
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law [OSAIL]
Published in print:
21 February 2013
ISBN:
9780199673384

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 21 March 2023

Subject(s):
International courts and tribunals, decisions — Opinio juris — Customary international law — Economic, social, and cultural rights
The earlier article on this question contained a discussion343 whether the references to ‘considerations of humanity’ in the Court’s case-law were to be understood as identifying such considerations as a separate source of law; or whether the law in this field was to be regarded as customary in nature, or as deriving from ‘general principles of law’. The conclusion reached was that some of the Court’s dicta pointed one way, and some another. The advisory opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons is clearer on this issue. The Court began its...
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