Law 2101 Lecture 21: Lecture 21 - International Law Day 2
1 Dec 2017
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In baker, the scc found that canada had not transformed an article in the. There is a continuum between the international and domestic levels. International law automatically incorporated into domestic law without any need for domestic legislation. International law has direct legal effect within a domestic legal system and forms part of the domestic law of the state. November 30, 2017: means that it applies everywhere, to everybody, all the time. Different from treaty law in this way: two elements of customary international law, sufficiently general and widespread state practice and, evidence of opinion juris sense on the part of states that the practice is mandatory. International court of justice rules on this in the north sea continental shelf case (germany v. denmark: when assessing the extent of state practice, the icj counted the number of countries which had delimited their continental shelves.
