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Porträtt av Ulf Linderfalk. Foto.

Ulf Linderfalk

Professor

Porträtt av Ulf Linderfalk. Foto.

State Responsibility and the Primary-Secondary Rules Terminology: : The Role of Language for an Understanding of the International Legal System

Författare

  • Ulf Linderfalk

Summary, in English

In the international legal literature, it is commonplace to talk about the law of state responsibility as secondary rules of law. The terminology emphasises that in some way or another the law of state responsibility is different from other rules of the international legal system – what international legal scholars refer to as primary rules of law. The present essay inquires into the soundness of this language. As argued, the primary-secondary rules terminology builds on two assumptions. First, it assumes that the law of state responsibility can be described as separate from the ordinary (or primary) rules of international law. Secondly, it assumes that the two classes of rules can be described as pertaining to different stages of the judicial decision-making process. As shown in this essay, neither assumption can be defended as correct.

Avdelning/ar

  • Folkrätt
  • Juridiska institutionen

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

53-72

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Nordic Journal of International Law

Volym

78

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Brill

Ämne

  • Law

Nyckelord

  • Public international law
  • Folkrätt

Aktiv

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Public International Law

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0902-7351