The Role of the International Law Commission in the United Nations. Progress or Stagnant?
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201209.316How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- International Law Commission, progressive international law
- Abstract
The urgent need for international law codification leads us to the establishment of The International Law Commission (ILC). The principle purpose of codification is to tackle obstacles due to the uncertainty of customary and the abstract aspect of the general principle. In daily interaction, the subject of international law requires concrete law which is understood commonly. To fulfill the need, ILC endeavors many occasions result in various kinds of work. The purpose of its work not solely codification but also encourage the progressive development of international law. The tasks they did and trying to do, also facing issues and conditions who not always in line with their purpose. This condition raises a question regarding ILC’s role in international law development and at the same time regarding its capability to perform. This work will discuss the above question by elaborate on the work of ILC. Through the elaboration, we will find the strengths and weaknesses of it. Using two approaches: history and teleological. The collected data will be analyzed and described in qualitative. Finally, this paper concludes the alteration of ILC’s work aligned to their establishment’s purpose.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ria Karlina Lubis PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/14 TI - The Role of the International Law Commission in the United Nations. Progress or Stagnant? BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Law, Government and Social Justice (ICOLGAS 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 380 EP - 385 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201209.316 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201209.316 ID - Lubis2020 ER -