International Common Law: The Soft Law of International Tribunals

InternatIonal Soft law

Although the concept of soft law has existed for years, scholars have not reached consensus on why states use soft law or even whether “soft law” is a coherent analytic category. In part, this confusion reflects a deep diversity in both the types of international agreements and the strategic situations that produce them. In this paper, we advance four complementary explanations for why states u...

The Theoretical Foundations of Jus Cogens in International Law

International Law has it's Constituent elements (legal systems, regimes and collections of rules); Those have  interrelations from which legal networks are created. Having this in mind,  the question is whether these Constituent elements only have horizental nexus or are ordered by means of factors which unified them in a vertical manner and because of that International Law is named legal orde...

"COVID-19" and International Law: Prosecution of China in International Court of Justice

"COVID-19", which was first seen in China in December 2019, outbreak worldwide in a short time and took the lives of many people around the world. In addition to claims concerning Chinachr('39')s fault in creating the disease and failing to prevent its spread, it is seriously claimed that China has delayed and sometimes incorrectly reported information concerning disease to the World Health Org...

Sexual Violence as Genocide: The Developing Law of the International Criminal Tribunals and the International Criminal Court

The Teaching of International Law

Let me say in the beginning that I do not take it as my responsibility in this program to describe the teaching of international law in the United States. I would not dare to give my version with my colleague, Professor Stevens, an ex-colleague, Professor McWhinney, and other friends and associates present in the audience. I do not think, either, that I will attempt to make any comparison betwe...