Jurisprudence has up until recently largely neglected international law as a subject of
philosophizing. The Nature of International Law tries to offset against this deficiency by …

International Law as a Belief System considers how we construct international legal
discourses and the self-referentiality at the centre of all legal arguments about international …

This article sketches out two distinct attitudes towards textuality in international law, namely
international hermeneutics and international poetics. It argues that these two attitudes …

Scholars recently have been arguing that one can interpret rules of customary international
law. This article argues that the case for the interpretability of custom is unpersuasive and …

Along with treaties, custom is one of the sources of international law. It is known to consist of
two elements: state practice and opinio juris. While many studies have looked at traditional …

This is the first study to provide both a systematic assessment of the ways by which the
dispute settlement bodies of the United Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) …

This paper aims to examine whether a different methodology has emerged to identify
customary rules in the field of international criminal law. For this purpose, this paper briefly …

This article tells the story of customary international law in the 98 years between the
introduction of the draft rules to the new Permanent Court of International Justice and the …

Although much honoured to have been invited to give this “General course” within the
framework of the Morelli Lectures, whose first edition was a real success, 1 I have a first …

Customary international law (CIL), alongside treaties and general principles, is one of the
three primary sources of international law. Historically, rules of CIL are some of the oldest …