Human rights and humanitarian norms as customary law /

Clarifies the status of international human rights and humanitarian norms in public international law, and examines the sources, evidence, and process of the creation of such rights.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meron, Theodor, 1930-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Humanitarian Instruments as Customary Law. I. The importance of a norm's customary character
  • II. Reservations to humanitarian and human rights instruments and customary law
  • III. The Nicaragua judgment
  • IV. The antecedents to Nicaragua
  • V. Geneva Conventions: assessing practice, opinio juris, and violations
  • VI. Additional Protocols of 1977. Part II: Human Rights Instruments and Customary Law. I. The quest for universality
  • II. The International Court of Justice and customary human rights
  • III. Customary human rights in selected national courts. Part III: Responsibility of States for Violations of Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms. I. Mapping recourse options
  • II. Acts of State, imputability, private acts
  • III. Exhaustion of local remedies
  • IV. Obligations of means and obligations of result
  • V. Obligations erga omnes
  • VI. Judicial remedies: is damage a condition for State responsibility?
  • VII. Violations as international crimes and international delicts
  • VIII. State of necessity and derogations
  • IX. Responsibility for violations of international humanitarian law: special problems
  • X. The relationship between remedies in human rights treaties and other remedies
  • XI. Countermeasures, non-judicial remedies.