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The Role of Non-state Actors in International Law-Making During the UN Decade of International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Catherine Tinker*
Affiliation:
University of South Dakota School of Law: Chapman University School of Law

Abstract

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Type
The UN Decade on International Law: Progress and Promises
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1995

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References

1 UN Press Release, Department of Public Information, “Secretary-General Says UN Plays Major Role in Process Leading to New Bodies of International Law,” Doc. SG/SM/5583, L/2710, 17 March 1995.

2 Speech by Lord Devlin, quoted in William Hurlburt, Law Reform Commissions In The United Kingdom, Australia And Canada 3 (1986). Hurlburt states that the “greatest risk to law reform is indifference”; the law reform commissions are already doing work that governments are not interested in doing themselves.