Cassese: International Law 2e
Chapter 11
The Hierarchy of International Rules: The Role of Jus Cogens
The emergence of Jus cogens:
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (see Artiche 53, 64 and 66, lett. a)
[www.un.org/law/ilc/texts/treatfra.htm]
Instances of peremptory norms:
- Art. 19 of the ILC Draft Articles on State Responsibility, as adopted on first reading in 1996 (click on "State responsibility" and then on "Article 19")
[www.un.org./law/ilc/reports/1996/96repfra.htm] - Commentary on Article 40, para. 2, of the ILC Draft Article on State Responsibility, as adopted on second reading in 2001
[www.un.org/law/ilc/texts/State_responsibility/responsibility_commentaries(e).pdf#pagemode=bookmarks] - Hungarian Constitutional Court , decision No 53/1993 (see section V of the judgement)
[www.icrc.org/ihl-nat.nsf/46707c419d6bdfa24125673e00508145/
e781668ba0b17804c1256b220039e303?OpenDocument] - International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Furundzija, judgement of 10 December 1998, §§153-157
[www.un.org/icty/furundzija/trialc2/judgement/index.htm] - House of Lords, Pinochet, 24 March 1999, Opinions of Lord Hope de Craighead and of Lord Millet on the jus cogens nature of the customary rule banning torture
[www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199899/ldjudgmt/jd990324/pino1.htm] - International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Kupreškic, §14 January 2000, §520
[www.un.org/icty/kupreskic/trialc2/judgement/index.htm]
- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Furundzija, judgement of 10 December 1998, §§154-157
[www.un.org/icty/furundzija/trialc2/judgement/index.htm] - Arbitration Commission on Yugoslavia, Opinion no. 10
[www.ejil.org/journal/Vol4/No1/art8-07.html#TopOfPage]
- Human Rights Committee, General Comment no. 24, §8
[www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/69c55b086f72957ec12563ed004ecf7a?Opendocument]
- Resolution of the Institut de droit international on extradition treaties (1983)
[www.idi-iil.org/idiE/resolutionsE/1983_camb_03_en.PDF]
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