source of international law

A source of international law is any recognized method or process—such as treaties, customary practice, general principles, judicial decisions, and scholarly writings—through which binding legal rules governing relations between states and other international actors are created or identified.

Aliases (4)

• principles of international law ×1
• secondary source of law ×1
• source of international criminal law ×1
• source of obligations under the United Nations Charter ×1

Instances (8)

• Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
• Nuremberg Principles ("principles of international law")
• Statute of the International Court of Justice
• Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
• United Nations General Assembly treaties
• Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Criminal Court ("secondary source of law")
• United Nations Security Council resolutions ("source of obligations under the United Nations Charter")