‘All nations must be considered to be civilized’
General Principles of Law between Cosmetic Adjustments and Decolonization
González Hauck, Sué
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2020
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2020-07-21
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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.
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González Hauck, Sué
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Anthony Anghie
colonialism
General Principles
ICJ Statute
Onuma Yasuaki
Sources of International Law
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