EVOLUTION OF THE APPROACH OF INTERNATIONAL JUDICIAL PRACTICE IN THE PROCESS OF RECOGNITION OF RULES OF CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associated Professor,Public Law Department,University of Tehran

2 Assistant Professor, Law Department,University of Bu-Ali Sina

Abstract

The judicial practice of the international courts and tribunals – especially
International Court of Justice – as the most important official entities for
surveying and identifying legal rules, has always been a valuable source in
the recognition of customary international law. In the recent decades, as a
result of developments caused by improving human concepts and humanity
principles in the international community, the approach of the international
judicial practice has also been evaluated in process of recognition of the
involved customary rules. This approach is on the basis of identifying
centrality and primacy of opinio juris, against the traditional approach,
according to which, customary rule is recognized by the preliminary proof of
practice.

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