LAWS 2908 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: World Trade Organization, United Nations Human Rights Committee, Soft Law
16 Mar 2017
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Intro to international law: sources of international law (prof kuzmarov) What is int. law: ways states interact/relate with each other - treat states as people represented by official actors, different types of cooperation, national/transnational/international, public/private. Is there evidence and does it look like a custom that many states are participating in: general principles of law. Custom - practice taken under belief in the legality of the act. General principles: principles common to law (debate international/national: courts/tribunals. Icty/ictr: sierra leone/cambodia/timor leste/jordan (originally from bora laskin law library, u of t, ^ these are the bodies to look for customs or general principles of law, classic sources of law, growth of international bodies. Igo sources: un security council resolutions (binding, un general assembly resolutions (not binding, ex. United nations, recommendations on consent to marriage, minimum age for marriage and registration of marriages. Ga. res 2016, un doc a60141965: un agencies - who/unicef/ilo, bretton woods organizations: wto (world bank)
