Legal Consequences of Peremptory Norms in International Law

This work explores in depth the legal consequences of peremptory norms.

List of contents

1. Peremptory norms and their legal consequences as a feature of general international law; 2. Legal consequences for treaties; 3. Peremptory norms outside the Vienna convention: treaties of questionable validity by reason of their content; 4. Legal consequences for security council resolutions; 5. Legal consequences for certain unilateral acts; 6. Legal consequences in the law of international responsibility; 7. Legal consequences for state immunity; General conclusions.

About the author

Daniel Costelloe is a senior associate in the international arbitration group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. Before this he held a W. M. Tapp Studentship in Law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Summary

When is a norm peremptory? This question has troubled legal scholars throughout the development of modern international law. In this work, Daniel Costelloe suggests that only the legal consequences of a norm distinguish it as peremptory, and sheds light on those consequences.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Costelloe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781316508404
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50840-4
• No. of pages: 379
• Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law; Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, International Relations, Public International Law, International Organisations & Institutions, Responsibility of states & other entities