Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each item by the kind of international source it belongs to.
Groups: Treaty law · Customary law · General principle of law
- Vienna Law of Treaties
- Territorial sea sovereignty
- No profit from own wrong
- Right to be heard
- United Nations Charter
- Head of state immunity
Hints
- One column contains documents with signatures on them.
- The third column contains rules found in most developed national systems rather than in any international instrument.
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Treaty law: Vienna Law of Treaties, United Nations Charter
Customary law: Head of state immunity, Territorial sea sovereignty
General principle of law: No profit from own wrong, Right to be heard
Why
The third column is the one students leave empty. General principles are rules so widely shared across national legal systems that international tribunals treat them as available, good faith, res judicata, the prohibition on profiting from one's own wrong. They exist to stop a tribunal being paralysed when neither a treaty nor a custom covers the point.
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