DANCEST 805 Lecture 26:
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Buttress the claim of il to be a proper legal syst. Il authority generally derived from consent of the state, developing il rules. States frequently delegating lawmaking authority to spe bodies or organs, may acquiesce or consent to a legal rule. Formal sources of il: methods for law-creation which are generally binding on their addressees and of gene app. Material sources of il: not legally binding but may gather or compile evidence of a binding legal rule: judgments of int court, study of int law commission, resolution of a pol organ, textbooks of il . Art 38(1) statute of the icj lays out the lex arbitri of the icj, i. e. the categories of sources to be applied by icj. Transposition of the statute of pcij from 1920s. Long been regarded as authoritative and complete statement as to the sources of il, in part due to incorporation of the icj statute into the un charter.
