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7 - Peremptory Norms in the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Decolonisation of Mauritius and the Chagos Archipelago

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2021

Thomas Burri
Affiliation:
Universität St Gallen, Switzerland
Jamie Trinidad
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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When negotiating states introduced the notion of peremptory norms or ius cogens norms into the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT), they foresaw a specific mechanism for settling disputes that referred to an alleged breach of a peremptory norm of general international law (ius cogens norm) as grounds for voiding or terminating a treaty, circumstances specifically provided for in Articles 53 and 64 of the Convention. Indeed, paragraph (a) of Article 66 provides that such disputes should be submitted to arbitration or to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).1 It was considered appropriate, therefore, that when settling such disputes, courts should address the question of how the effects of peremptory norms of general international law specifically apply to treaties.2

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The International Court of Justice and Decolonisation
New Directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion
, pp. 117 - 143
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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