Title: The Contribution of the International Court of Justice to the Development of the Law of Treaties
Abstract: International Court of Justice(ICJ) has itself stated that '[i]ts duty is to apply the law as it finds it, not to make it', it is by now a truism to state that it has played an important role in the development of international law both through its advisory opinions and contentious cases. Treaties are par excellence the legal act or transaction by which social claims and hence social change cross the normative threshold, although the increasing role played by soft law has made the shifting boundary between the normative and non-normative more difficult to seize. In the realm of treatymaking it has been conscious of the impact of the substantive content of a treaty on its formal and procedural rules and it is in particular in furthering the concept of treaties with a collective interest that it has been most responsive to current developments and needs of the international community. Keywords:international community; International Court of Justice(ICJ); international law; Treaties
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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