Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
1 See Second Interim Report of the Committee on the Enforcement of Human Rights Law, in International Law Association, Report of the Sixty-third Conference 40 (1988).
2 See Theodor Meron, Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary Law (1989).
3 See 7 Hum. Rts. Q. 1 (1985).
4 The fundamental concept of the necessity of a proposition (outside the physical realm) is controversial in philosophy. The influential American philosopher Willard Quine doubts whether the concept is useful to thought and regards necessity as no more than a disguised contingency.