PLSC 380F Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Peremptory Norm, Opinio Juris Sive Necessitatis, Olive Oil

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PLSC 380F
• Professor: Virginia Brown

Document Summary

Common law: case law judges are arbitrary, and their decisions/ precedents become part of the law living body, grows and evolves. Civil law: set of statutes made to envision a variety of situations and issues about relations between states does not change as much as common law. If there isn"t a law, then everything is legal. what germany did, what she talked about. Ad hoc: law only works from time it is established, does not and cannot penalize laws going back in time. Codi cation of rules oral agreements are legally binding but very hard to prove. Requires consent of all states by signature. sign and ratify the treaty: soft law. Law by bodies who have no leg authority. Olive oil council sets the standard for 100% virgin olive oil, but there is no us law for it. Frats and sororities" law is not in us law.