LCP4801
Assignment 2 Semester 1 2024
Detailed Solutions, References & Explanations
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Due Date: 2024
QUESTION 1 (3 ANSWERS PROVIDED)
Article 38(1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice lists the sources of
international law individually and consecutively, under points (a) to (d) as follows:
a. international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly
recognized by the contesting states,
b. international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law,
c. The general principles of law recognized by civilized nations,
d. Subject to the provisions of Article 59, judicial decisions and the teachings of the
most highly qualified publicists of the various nations, as subsidiary means for the
determination of rules of law1
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