The sources of international law / Hugh Thirlway.
2014
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Title
The sources of international law / Hugh Thirlway.
Published
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Call Number
KZ1279 .T45 2014
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780199685394 (hardback)
0199685398 (hardback)
9780199685400 (paperback)
0199685401 (paperback)
0199685398 (hardback)
9780199685400 (paperback)
0199685401 (paperback)
Description
xxi, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers
60001907997
System Control No.
(OCoLC)864787490
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Thirlway, H.W.A., 1937- Sources of international law. First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014 (OCoLC)902734453
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Table of Contents
Glossary of Latin Phrases
xiii
Table of Cases
xv
Table of Legislation
xix
I.
The Nature of International Law and the Concept of Sources
1
1.
Introduction
1
2.
Formal and material sources
3
3.
Enumeration of the recognized formal sources
5
4.
Nature and operation of the sources
8
5.
Whose law? States and non-State actors
16
6.
Are there additional sources, not in Article 38?
19
6(a).
Unilateral acts
20
6(b).
Decisions of international organizations
21
6(c).
Agreements between States and international enterprises
23
6(d).
Other proposals
24
7.
Religious law as a rival or additional source
25
8.
Is the theory of sources still sufficient?
28
II.
Treaties and Conventions as a Source of Law
31
1.
Pacta sunt servanda
31
2.
The limits of treaty-law: jus cogens and the relative effect of treaties
34
3.
Commitment to the treaty-obligations
37
4.
Unilateral acts as inchoate treaties?
44
III.
Custom as a Source of Law
53
1.
Introduction
53
2.
Constituent elements of custom
56
2(a).
Introduction
56
2(b).
State practice
63
2(c).
The opinio juris
72
2(d).
The role of General Assembly resolutions
79
3.
Changes in customary law
81
4.
The relevance of ethical principles to customary law
83
5.
The `persistent objector'
86
6.
General and local customary law
88
IV.
General Principles of Law as a Source of Law
93
1.
What are the `general principles of law'?
93
2.
The role of equity
104
3.
General principles of law and non liquet
111
V.
The Subsidiary Sources
117
1.
Introduction
117
2.
Judicial decisions
120
2(a).
International tribunals
120
2(b).
Municipal courts
124
3.
The teachings of publicists
126
VI.
Interaction or Hierarchy between Sources
129
1.
Simultaneous and identical obligations under treaty and under customary law
129
2.
The `hierarchy of sources'
132
VII.
Specialities: jus cogens, Obligations erga omnes, Soft Law
143
1.
Superior norms and their sources: jus cogens and obligations erga omnes
143
1(a).
The source or sources of obligations erga omnes
146
1(b).
The source or sources of norms of jus cogens
154
2.
Soft law
163
VIII.
Subsystems of International Law
173
1.
`Self-contained regimes' and their limits
173
2.
Human rights law
175
2(a).
Human rights law under treaty and as custom
175
2(b).
Human rights as deriving from general principles
180
2(c).
Human rights and Islam
181
3.
Humanitarian law
185
3(a).
Treaties and conventions
185
3(b).
Customary law or an independent source of law?
185
4.
WTO, ICSID: trade and investment law dispute settlement
190
5.
International environmental issues
194
6.
International criminal law
195
IX.
Alternative Approaches
199
1.
Alternatives to the traditional doctrine of sources as a whole
199
1(a).
Rational Choice Theory: Andrew T. Guzman
203
1(b).
Jean d'Aspremont: Formalism and the Sources of International Law
206
1(c).
Matthias Goldmann: Standard instruments for the exercise of international public authority
215
2.
New approaches to customary law
220
2(a).
`A new theory with practical applications': Brian D. Lepard
221
2(b).
Reconciliation of `traditional' and `modern' approaches: Anthea Roberts
225
X.
Some Concluding Reflections
231
Index
233