Mumbai University Solved Question Papers
Public International Law and Human Rights
Previous Year Question Paper with Solution
LLB 3 years · Sem 5
May 2019 Examination
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Mumbai University Solved Question Papers
Public International Law and Human Rights
Previous Year Question Paper with Solution
LLB 3 years · Sem 5
May 2019 Examination
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Mumbai
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Answer the following in not more than 2 sentences 20 Marks
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Article 38(1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice directs the Court, whose function is to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it, to apply:
(a) international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognised by the contesting States; (b) international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law; (c) the general principles of law recognised by civilised nations; and (d), subject to Article 59, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations, as subsidiary means for the determination of rules of law.
It is universally treated as the authoritative statement of the sources of international law. Article 38(2) adds that this does not prejudice the power of the Court to decide a case ex aequo et bono if the parties agree.
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