• Statute of the International Court of Justice (see Art. 38)
  [www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/ibasicdocuments/ibasictext/ibasicstatute.htm]

Unilateral acts of States

Legal effects of unilateral undertakings:

• World Trade Organization, Panel report of 22 December 1999, United States-Sections 301-310 of the Trade Act of 1974, §§ 7.114-124 and 7.125-6
  [www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/distabase_e.htm] (click on year 1999 of the column 'panel report' and then look for the report of 22 December)

Promise:

• International Court of Justice, judgement in Nicaragua (merits), § 261
  [www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/icases/inus/inusframe.htm]

Binding decisions of International Organizations

• UN Charter, see Art. 2, par. 6, Art. 25, Art. 41
  [www.un.org/aboutun/charter/index.html]
• ICAO Convention (1944)
  [www.iasl.mcgill.ca/airlaw/public/chicago/chicago1944a.pdf]

Judicial decisions based on equitable principles

• Annex 2 of the Dayton-Paris Accord (see Art. V.3)
  [www.ohr.int/dpa/default.asp?content_id=370]
• Supplemental Award of 15 March 1998 of the Arbitral Tribunal for Dispute Over Inter-Entity Boundary in Brcko Area
  [www.ohr.int/ohr-offices/brcko/default.asp?content_id=5345] (see §§ 20, 101, 102)

General Principles of Law recognized by the community of nations:

Resort to general principles by international courts:

• On 'nemo iudex in re sua', PCIJ, Mosul Boundary case, at 32
  [www.icj-cij.org/cijwww/cdecisions/ccpij/serie_B/B_12/01_Article_3_
  du_traite_de_Lausanne_Avis_consultatif.pdf]
• On the 'duty of reparation of international wrongs' and on the principle whereby one cannot take advantage of one's own misconduct, PCIJ, Chorzow Factory case, at 29 and 31, respectively
  [www.icj-cij.org/cijwww/cdecisions/ccpij/serie_A/A_17/54_
  Usine_de_Chorzow_Fond_Arret.pdf]
• On 'inademplenti non est adimplendum', PCIJ, Dissenting Opinion of Judge Anzilotti in the case Prise d'eau à Meuse
  [www.icj-cij.org/cijwww/cdecisions/ccpij/serie_AB/AB_70/04_
  Meuse_Opinion_Anzilotti.pdf], at 50
• On 'contra proferentem', PCIJ, Brazilian Loans case, at 114
  [www.icj-cij.org/cijwww/cdecisions/ccpij/serie_A/A_20-21/62_
  Emprunts_Serbes_Arret.pdf]
• On the principle of good faith, ICJ, Nuclear Tests case, § 46
  [www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/icases/iaf/iaf_ijudgment/iaf_ijudgment_19741220.pdf]
• On the 'rule of law', ILO Administrative Tribunal, judgement n. 963, consideration n. 5
  [www.ilo.org/public/english/tribunal/fulltext/0963.htm]
• On the principle 'expressio unius est exclusio alterius', ICTY, Kupreskić, 14 January 2000, § 623

General principles relating to the judicial process:

• On the principle whereby tribunals must be established by law, ICTY, Tadić, 2 October 1995, § 42
  [www.un.org/icty/tadic/appeal/decision-e/51002.htm]
• On 'equality of parties', ICJ, Judgements of the ILO Administrative Tribunal (summary)
  [www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idecisions/isummaries/iilunsummary561023.htm]
• On the principle of the proportionality of the penalty, ICTY, Blakić, 3 March 2000, § 796
  [www.un.org/icty/blaskic/trialc1/judgement/index.htm]

Conditions for the application of general principles at the international level:

• ICTY, Erdemović, 7 October 1997, Separate and Dissenting Opinion of Judge Cassese, §§ 1-6
  [www.un.org/icty/erdemovic/appeal/judgement/erd-adojcas971007e.htm]