International Law; Customary International Law; Procedural Law; History of International Law
Résumé :
[en] The article looks at customary international law in a broad comparative perspective to show that, whilst the power to determine what customary law demands has been typically entrusted to authorities acting in the framework of special procedural arrangements, the international variant of customary law has never found a procedural ‘resting place’. The article further argues that there is a connection between the un-procedural character of customary international law and its long-standing ‘identity crisis’. It finally reads the latter through the lens of Jungian concepts of Mask and Shadow, which contribute to explaining the elements of uncertainty, ambiguity and concealment that are so central to discourses about international custom.
Disciplines :
Droit européen & international
Auteur, co-auteur :
GRADONI, Lorenzo ; University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for European Law (LCEL) > LCEL Research ; Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law, Luxembourg
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