General Principles of Law: The Gentle Guardians of Systemic Integration of International Law

• Authors: Kwiecień Roman
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

There are different meanings and functions of what is called a “general principle of law.” This article seeks to address their importance as the basis for the systemic integration of the international legal order. When international law is considered as a legal system, its normative unity and completeness seems essential. This article argues that general principles of law are a necessary, although less visible, element of international legal practice and reasoning, which secure the systemic integration and long­lasting underpinnings of international law. In this sense they may be seen as the gentle guardians of international law as a legal system.

Keywords

EN

coherence of the legal order; completeness of the legal order; general principles of law; international legal reasoning; sources of international law; systemic integration of international law

• Publisher: Instytut Nauk Prawnych PAN / Institute of Legal Studies PAN
• Journal: Polish Yearbook of International Law
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 37
• Pages: 235-242

Dates

published

2018-09-01

Contributors

author

Kwiecień Roman

• Faculty of Finance and Law, Cracow University of Economics

Identifiers

DOI

10.7420/pyil2017k