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Equity in International Law Revisited (with Special Reference to the Fragmentation of International Law)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Anastasios Gourgourinis
Anastasios Gourgourinis*
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University College London (UCL)
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New Voices: Rethinking the Sources of International Law
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 103 , 2009 , pp. 79 - 82
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2009

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14 E.g., Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, Commentary to Art. 45, ¶ 1, and Art. 56, in Report of the ILC on the Work of its Fifty-third Session, UN GAOR, 56th Sess., Supp. No. 10, at 43, UN Doc. A/56/10 (2001), reprinted in [2001] Y. B. Int’l L. Comm’n 74, UN Doc. A/CN.4/Ser.A/2001/Add.l (Part 2).

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17 Georges Pinson (France) v. United Mexican States [hereinafter Georges Pinson], 5 R. Int’l Arb. Awards 327 (Perm. Ct. Arb. 1928).

18 See Fragmentation Report, supra note 16, at 94 (fn 237), 96, 233, 234, 254.

19 Georges Pinson, supra note 17, at 422.

20 Id. at 355 (Author’s translation).