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Jul 21, 2020 · To eliminate colonial thought from the doctrine of general principles of international law, international lawyers will have to do more than avoid the term ‘civilized nations’.
Committee that the term “civilized nations” contained in Article 38, paragraph 1 (c), of the Statute of the Court was anachronistic and should be avoided. 178. Fifth, the Special Rapporteur...
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Nov 2, 2021 · The phrase “community of nations”, already employed in the widely accepted International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, should be used in the Commission’s work as well as throughout the...
1 The phrase ‘civilized nations’ (also known as ‘civilized peoples’, ‘civilized countries’, or, collectively, as the ‘civilized world’) has long served to distinguish European Christian States from States not thought to possess similar legal systems or values.
Even though the UN’s civilization initiatives may change beyond recognition or fall into oblivion, there is a central lesson to be found in them: the conceptual germs of legal ideas about social belonging, properly cultivated in the language of rights, have a remarkable capacity to come to life. download Download free PDF. View PDF chevron_right.
In this regard, the Committee considered different expressions to replace “civilized nations”, such as “States”, “community of States”, “the international community”, “nations”, “nation...
Vázquez-Bermúdez is of the opinion that civilized nations as a phrase should be “avoided” preferring instead ‘the general principles of law recognized by States’.46 Nonwestern judges and developing states parties to disputes before the ICJ have already done so.
