Law-Making in the International Community.

• Superior document: Developments in International Law Series ; v.15
• Author: Danilenko, G. M.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1993.; ©1993.
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Developments in International Law Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Table of Contents
• Abbreviations
• INTRODUCTION
• I. THE CONCEPT OF LAW-MAKING
• 1. The need for continuous law-making
• 2. Some preliminary questions of terminology
• 3. Law-making and the "constitution" of the international community
• II. THE CONCEPT OF FORMAL SOURCES
• 1. The importance of the formal criteria of law
• 2. The notion of formal sources
• 3. Article 38(1) of the Statute of the I.C.J. as the basic norm about sources
• III. TREATIES
• 1. General observations. Terminology
• 2. The limits of formlessness in treaty-making
• 3. Treaties and third states
• A. General
• B. Objective regimes
• C. "Global treaties"
• 4. A legislation by reference?
• IV. CUSTOM
• 1. The concept of international custom
• A. General observations
• B. International custom as a law-making process
• C. Basic elements of custom
• 2. International practice
• A. Subjects of practice
• B. Types of acts
• C Requirements of practice
• 3. Opinio juris
• A. The concept of opinio juris
• B. Individual opinio juris
• C. Persistent objectors
• D. New states
• E. General opinio juris
• F. Ascertainment of opinio juris
• 4. Change in customary law
• 5. The need for further clarification of the criteria of custom
• V. INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN TREATY AND CUSTOM
• 1. The importance of treaty and custom
• 2. The interaction of treaty and custom
• A. General
• B. Treaty restatement of custom
• C. "Crystallization" of customary law
• D. The creation of custom on the basis of treaties
• 3. Changing treaty law by custom
• VI. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LAW RECOGNIZED BY CIVILIZED NATIONS
• 1. Traditional theories
• 2. Judicial and state practice
• 3. A new theory of "the general principles of law"
• VII. THE PROPOSED REFORMS IN THE FORMAL SOURCES.
• 1. The possibility for change in the system of sources
• 2. The movement toward community-based law-making
• 3. Community consensus
• 4. UN General Assembly resolutions
• VIII. THE CREATION OF JUS COGENS
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Natural law vs. positivism
• 3. The law-making process: The controversy unresolved
• A. The basic question of consent
• B. A new peremptory source of law?
• C. A modification of the traditional sources?
• D. Some tentative conclusions
• 4. Peremptory law-making: Existing experience
• 5. Change in jus cogens
• IX. THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
• 1. Judicial decisions as subsidiary means for the determination of rules of law
• 2. The I.C.J. and jus cogens
• X. SOME ISSUES OF PROCEDURE AND LAW-MAKING POLICY
• 1. The choice of law-making arenas
• 2. Consensus as negotiating and decision-making technique
• 3. Global negotiations and package deals
• 4. Anticipatory regulation
• CONCLUDING REMARKS
• Table of cases
• List of treaties
• List of resolutions
• Bibliography
• INDEX.