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The International Law Commission Reinvents Itself?

Part of: The Sixty-Fifth Session of the International Law Commission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Kristina Daugirdas
Kristina Daugirdas*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan Law School
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For most of its history, the International Law Commission has been in the business of producing draft articles. Yet, Sean Murphy’s coverage of the Commission’s sixty-fifth session reveals that the Commission has decisively turned away from this format. As Jacob Katz Cogan’s earlier post observes, the Commission is demonstrating a new-found preference for outputs that are explicitly non-binding and betray no aspiration to form the basis for multilateral treaties. The Commission’s embrace of alternative formats is a promising response to some of the risks and criticisms associated with producing draft articles. But it is also an incomplete response. To ensure that its work continues to be relevant, ambitious, and influential, the Commission must revise its working methods as well as its outputs. In particular, the Commission should develop procedures for engaging with and soliciting input from the non-state actors who are becoming an increasingly important audience for the Commission’s work.

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Symposium: The Sixty-Fifth Session of the International Law Commission
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AJIL Unbound , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 79 - 82
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

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