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Comment: Role of international Law in international cooperation.

  • UPSC 1995
  • 20 marks
  • United Nations

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International law, the term Jeremy Bentham coined in 1789, is the body of rules states treat as binding in their mutual relations. Its sources, listed in Article 38 of the ICJ Statute, are treaties, custom (practice plus opinio juris), general principles, and, subsidiarily, judicial decisions and scholarly writing. In a system with no world government,…

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  • How law enables cooperation
  • Why states comply
  • The sceptical case
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