ACCTG 1 Lecture 20:
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The lack of a universal legislature and a system of courts with compulsory jurisdiction often make the task of uncovering the law more difficult. Since international law is a decentralized legal system, legal obligations may derive from more than one particular source. Legal sources enable legal subjects to distinguish between norms and legal character and those of a political, moral or ethical nature. Difference between law and politics on a number of occasions. * south west africa case : humanitarian considerations are sufficient in themselves to generate legal rights and obligations. Positivist will here look at the states will to find the legal sources (art 38 icj statutes) All international legal obligations are considered to be derived from the consent of the state. However not all answers in int law can be found freely undertaken obligations ( it is a fallacy to assume that states cannot be bound by an obligation t which they have not consented)
