nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200721-115205-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200721s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200721-115205-0 doi eng 342 23 González Hauck, Sué Author aut ‘All nations must be considered to be civilized’ General Principles of Law between Cosmetic Adjustments and Decolonization González Hauck, Sué Verfassungsblog 2020-07-21 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Even though Art. 38 (1)(c) ICJ Statute is supposed to remain the starting point for the identification of general principles of international law, Special Rapporteur Vázquez-Bermúdez suggests avoiding the reference to ‘civilized nations’. Getting rid of the explicit reference to the standard of civilization remains merely cosmetic as long as international sources doctrine does not simultaneously reflect the persisting influence of colonial ideas. Decolonizing international sources doctrine requires remedying Eurocentrist conceptions of what constitutes ‘the principal legal systems of the world’ and understanding the role of the idea of a legal system in the standard of civilization. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Anthony Anghie colonialism General Principles ICJ Statute Onuma Yasuaki Sources of International Law TWAIL Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/all-nations-must-be-considered-to-be-civilized/ raw object