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Introduction |
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1 A Framework for Analysing General Principles |
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I Introduction: A Tetrahedral Framework |
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II Jurisprudential Legitimacy: A Brief Consideration of Positivism and Natural Law |
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6 | (2) |
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III Function: A Binding Source of International Law? |
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8 | (4) |
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A `Hard' and `Soft' Rhetoric: Consent and Voluntarism |
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9 | (1) |
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10 | (1) |
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ii Customary International Law |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (1) |
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12 | (2) |
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13 | (1) |
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B Content of General Principles |
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13 | (1) |
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14 | (5) |
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A Domestic/International Forum |
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15 | (1) |
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B Comparativism/Categoricism |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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i Discretion and Gaps in International Law |
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17 | (2) |
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19 | (1) |
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19 | (2) |
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2 History of Article 38(l)(c) |
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21 | (31) |
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21 | (1) |
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II Development Pre-World War I |
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22 | (12) |
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A Arbitral Procedure Regulations 1875 |
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23 | (3) |
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B Permanent Court of Arbitration: 1899 and 1907 |
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26 | (1) |
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C Court of Arbitral Justice: 1907 |
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27 | (2) |
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D International Prize Court: 1907 |
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29 | (1) |
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i General Principles of Justice and Equity |
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29 | (3) |
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ii The Prize Court's Failure: A Bold Solution Goes Too Far |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (1) |
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III Development Post-World War 1 |
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34 | (4) |
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34 | (1) |
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i Draft Scheme of Denmark, Norway and Sweden: 1918 |
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34 | (2) |
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ii Swiss Avant-projet: 1918-19 |
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36 | (1) |
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iv Proposals of the German Government: 1919 |
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v Draft Prepared by Clovis Bevilaqua |
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vi Memorandum, Permanent Secretariat |
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37 | (1) |
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B Discretion and General Principles |
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38 | (1) |
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IV Article 38(l)(c) and the PCIJ |
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38 | (14) |
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A Advisory Committee of Jurists |
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38 | (2) |
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i 13th Meeting of the Committee |
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40 | (2) |
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42 | (2) |
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44 | (2) |
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B Passage through the League of Nations |
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46 | (1) |
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V Conclusion: Applying the Tetrahedral Framework |
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47 | (1) |
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A Jurisprudential Legitimacy |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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i The Role of Judicial Discretion |
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49 | (1) |
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ii The Forum from which General Principles are Drawn: The Role of Municipal Law |
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49 | (1) |
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D Type of General Principles |
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50 | (1) |
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50 | (1) |
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ii Procedural General Principles |
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50 | (1) |
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50 | (2) |
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3 Consideration of Article 38(l)(c) by the PCIJ |
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52 | (39) |
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I Introduction: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff |
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52 | (3) |
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II Cases in Chronological Order |
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55 | (36) |
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55 | (1) |
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i Salus populi supreme lex |
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56 | (1) |
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ii Good Faith - Impossible Consequences |
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56 | (1) |
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B Mavrommatis Palestine Concessions |
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57 | (1) |
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i Rejection of the Comparative Methodology |
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58 | (1) |
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ii Allegans Contraria Now Est Audiendus |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (1) |
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C Mavrommatis Jerusalem Concessions |
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60 | (1) |
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D Polish Upper Silesia (Preliminary Objections) |
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60 | (1) |
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61 | (1) |
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62 | (1) |
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E Polish Upper Silesia (Merits) |
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62 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (1) |
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64 | (1) |
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65 | (1) |
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iii General Principles as a Source of Law |
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66 | (1) |
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iv Logical Principles of Law |
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67 | (1) |
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68 | (1) |
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i Obligation to Make Reparation |
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68 | (3) |
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ii No One Can Take Advantage of Their Own Wrong |
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71 | (1) |
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iii Content of Reparations for an Illegal Act |
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71 | (1) |
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I Jurisdiction of the Courts of Danzig |
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72 | (1) |
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J Interpretation of Judgments Nos 7 and 8 (The Chorzdw Factory) |
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73 | (1) |
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73 | (1) |
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74 | (1) |
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74 | (1) |
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L Interpretation of the Greco-Turkish Agreement |
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75 | (1) |
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M Greco-Bulgarian Communities |
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76 | (1) |
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N Polish Nationals in Danzig |
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76 | (1) |
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O Free Zones of Upper Savoy |
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77 | (1) |
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77 | (1) |
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78 | (1) |
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78 | (1) |
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79 | (1) |
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80 | (1) |
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81 | (1) |
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81 | (1) |
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S Consistency of Certain Danzig Legislative Decrees |
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82 | (1) |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (1) |
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ii Inadimplenti Non Est Adimplendum |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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U Lighthouses in Crete and Samoa |
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85 | (1) |
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V Panevezys-Saldutiskis Railway |
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86 | (1) |
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W Electricity Company of Sofia and Bulgaria |
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87 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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ii Later v Earlier Intentions |
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88 | (1) |
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88 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (1) |
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D Jurisprudential Legitimacy |
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90 | (1) |
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4 Development of Article 38(1)(c): 1945-91 |
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91 | (48) |
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91 | (2) |
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II Historical Development: PCIJ to ICJ |
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93 | (3) |
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96 | (36) |
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99 | (1) |
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i Circumstantial Evidence |
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99 | (1) |
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ii General Principles and Natural Law |
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100 | (1) |
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iii A Dual Approach to General Principles? |
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100 | (1) |
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B International Status of South West Africa |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (1) |
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E Effect of Awards of Compensation |
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104 | (1) |
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104 | (1) |
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G Certain Norwegian Loans |
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105 | (2) |
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H Right of Passage (Preliminary Objections) |
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107 | (1) |
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I Guardianship of Infants |
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107 | (1) |
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107 | (1) |
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108 | (1) |
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108 | (1) |
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K Right of Passage (Merits) |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (1) |
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111 | (1) |
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111 | (2) |
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113 | (3) |
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116 | (2) |
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M South-West Africa (Preliminary Objections) |
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118 | (1) |
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119 | (1) |
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119 | (1) |
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120 | (1) |
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121 | (1) |
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121 | (2) |
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123 | (1) |
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O North Sea Continental Shelf |
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124 | (1) |
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i Judge Tanaka and Judge Bengzon |
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124 | (1) |
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124 | (2) |
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126 | (1) |
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126 | (1) |
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127 | (1) |
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Q Legal Consequences for States |
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127 | (2) |
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129 | (1) |
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S Fisheries Jurisdiction (Order) |
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129 | (1) |
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T Application for Review of Judgment No 158 |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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ii Dissenting Opinion of Vice President Ammoun |
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130 | (1) |
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131 | (1) |
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U Aegean Sea Continental Shelf |
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131 | (1) |
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V Continental Shelf (Tunisia v Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) |
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132 | (4) |
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132 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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133 | (1) |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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Y UN Privileges and Immunities Convention |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (3) |
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A Conflation of Custom and General Principles |
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136 | (1) |
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B Application of the Tetrahedral Model |
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136 | (1) |
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C The Duality of General Principles |
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137 | (2) |
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5 Development of Article 38(l)(c) by the ICJ: 1992-2019 |
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139 | (38) |
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139 | (3) |
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II Cases (Except for the Separate and Dissenting Opinions of Judges Weeramantry and Cancado Trindade) |
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142 | (18) |
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A Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Provisional Measures) |
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142 | (1) |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (1) |
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B Certain Phosphate Lands in Nauru |
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143 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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145 | (1) |
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D Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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147 | (1) |
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E Application of the Genocide Convention (Preliminary Objections) |
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148 | (1) |
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F Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Preliminary Objections) |
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149 | (1) |
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150 | (1) |
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150 | (2) |
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I Aerial Incident of 10 August 1999 |
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152 | (1) |
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J Maritime and Territorial Questions |
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152 | (1) |
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153 | (1) |
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L Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan |
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153 | (1) |
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154 | (1) |
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N Application of the Genocide Convention (Judgment) |
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155 | (1) |
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O Application of the Interim Accord |
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155 | (1) |
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156 | (1) |
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ii Judge ad hoc Roucounas |
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156 | (1) |
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P Jurisdictional Immunities of the State |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (1) |
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R Question of the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf between Nicaragua and Colombia |
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159 | (1) |
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III Contributions of Judge Weeramantry |
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160 | (5) |
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A Greenland and Jan Mayen |
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160 | (1) |
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B Application of the Genocide Convention (Provisional Measures) |
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161 | (1) |
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C Gabdtkovo-Nagymaros Project |
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161 | (2) |
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D Land and Maritime Boundary (Preliminary Objections) |
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163 | (1) |
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E Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan (Application to Intervene) |
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164 | (1) |
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IV Contributions of Judge Cancado-Trindade |
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165 | (8) |
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A Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Provisional Measures) |
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165 | (1) |
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166 | (1) |
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166 | (1) |
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ii Jurisprudential Legitimacy |
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167 | (1) |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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C Certain Activities (Joinder)/Construction of a Road (Joinder) |
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169 | (1) |
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D Access to the Pacific Ocean |
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170 | (1) |
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E Nuclear Arms and Disarmament |
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171 | (1) |
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F Sovereign Rights and Maritime Spaces (Preliminary Objections) |
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172 | (1) |
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173 | (4) |
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6 General Principles in Other Courts and Tribunals |
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177 | (63) |
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177 | (1) |
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II International Criminal Tribunals |
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178 | (15) |
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A International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia |
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179 | (1) |
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i Classification of General Principles |
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180 | (1) |
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181 | (1) |
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iii Methodology and Jurisprudential Legitimacy |
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182 | (6) |
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188 | (1) |
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B International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
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189 | (2) |
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C International Criminal Court |
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191 | (2) |
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III International Economic Law |
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193 | (5) |
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A World Trade Organisation |
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193 | (2) |
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195 | (1) |
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C International Investment Arbitrations |
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196 | (2) |
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IV International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea |
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198 | (1) |
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199 | (7) |
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A European Court of Justice: General Principles of EULaw |
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199 | (2) |
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B European Court of Human Rights |
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201 | (2) |
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C Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
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203 | (3) |
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206 | (7) |
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208 | (2) |
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I Article 38(1)(c) as a Norm-Creating Source of International Law |
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210 | (1) |
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A Function Explained by Source Theory |
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211 | (1) |
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B General Principles as Interpreters/General Principles as Unifiers |
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212 | (1) |
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II The Rule/Principle Distinction |
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213 | (8) |
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A `National' International Law |
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215 | (2) |
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B A Temporal Dimension to the Rule/Principle Distinction |
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217 | (1) |
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217 | (1) |
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218 | (1) |
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218 | (2) |
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220 | (1) |
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221 | (8) |
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A Comparativism, Categoricism and Discretion |
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222 | (2) |
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B Discretion as to Appropriateness |
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224 | (2) |
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226 | (2) |
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D Nationality, Judicial Discretion and Methodology |
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228 | (1) |
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IV Where are General Principles Drawn From? |
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229 | (8) |
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229 | (2) |
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231 | (1) |
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C General Principles Drawn from International Law |
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232 | (1) |
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i General Principles as Deductions from Existing Rules of International Law |
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233 | (1) |
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ii General Principles Gathered from International Material |
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234 | (2) |
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iii International Forum as a Measure of Appropriateness |
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236 | (1) |
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V Content of General Principles |
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237 | (3) |
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237 | (1) |
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238 | (1) |
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C Crimes against Humanity and Jus Cogens |
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238 | (2) |
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8 Global General Principles |
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240 | (28) |
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243 | (6) |
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243 | (2) |
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B Religious Legal Systems |
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245 | (2) |
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247 | (2) |
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II Perspectives on General Principles |
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249 | (12) |
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249 | (1) |
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i Intersection between Chthonic Systems and International Law |
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249 | (1) |
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ii Chthonic Legal Systems and `Nations' |
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250 | (4) |
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B Religious Legal Systems |
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254 | (1) |
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i Intersections between Religious Legal Systems and International Law |
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254 | (1) |
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255 | (2) |
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iii Where Should General Principles be Drawn From? |
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257 | (3) |
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iv Conceptions of International Law |
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260 | (1) |
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261 | (1) |
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III The Comparativist's Warning |
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261 | (2) |
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A `Thin' Law and Legal Cultures |
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261 | (1) |
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B Legal Systems as Representatives of Legal Families |
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262 | (1) |
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IV Global General Principles in the Information Age |
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263 | (5) |
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9 A Model of General Principles |
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268 | (9) |
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I A Tale of Two Sources: Illegitimate Duality |
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269 | (1) |
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A General Principles as Logical Deductions |
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270 | (1) |
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II General Principles and Legitimate Duality |
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270 | (3) |
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271 | (1) |
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B General Principles as Principles |
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272 | (1) |
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C General Principles as Rules |
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272 | (1) |
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III The Future of General Principles |
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273 | (4) |
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