Treaties, Peremptory Norms and International Courts: Is the Hierarchy Theory Treading Water?
Introduction:In its recent report, the ILC addressed two main outstanding issues relating to jus cogens norms: the existence of regional jus cogens and the possibility of an illustrative list.1 The report concludes with draft conclusion 24, which proposes a non-exhaustive list of the “most widely...
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