The development and general trends of international law in our time

Power to Resort to Equity

“…236 Ultimately, no matter what their genesis, general principles of international law are usually deemed to be tethered to customary international law. 237 By this token, they may also be described as principles of customary international law. 238 If the term 'principles is retained, it is because they tend to be broader in content and scope than customary international law rules.…”

Organizaciones internacionales y tratados asociativos: por una nueva clasificación de los sujetos de derecho internacional

“…En medio a los aspectos significativos de una organización internacional se encuentran sus reglas de funcionamiento interno y, entre estas, se destacan las normativas para resolver conflictos 63 . El ejercicio de identificación de órganos responsables por la solución de controversias en el sistema interno de una organización, incluso para su caracterización como tal, no debe ser eclipsado por la identificación de sus estructuras administrativas, es decir, por una secretaría, por la burocracia internacional 64 .…”

A Global State of Exception? The United States and World Order

“…38 Due to the obvious risks of abuse of such a doctrine, the requirements of necessity and proportionality that govern the ordinary law of self-defence are applied a fortiori to any invocation of anticipatory self-defence. 39 There must be "solid and consistent evidence" that another state is about to engage in a "large-scale armed attack jeopardizing the very life" of a target state, and no peaceful means of resolving the dispute because of the imminence of the attack or the futility of the measures. 40 Whatever claims can be made about Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, it has never been asserted that it had the capacity to deliver them upon the territory of the United States, or that a military attack of any kind by Iraq against the United States was imminent or unavoidable.…”