Customary international law are those aspects of international law that derive from custom. Along with general principles of law and treaties, custom is considered by the International Court of Justice, jurists, the United Nations, and its member states to be among the primary sources of international law.
The vast majority of the world's governments accept in principle the existence of customary international law, although there are many differing opinions as to what rules are contained in it.
Read more about Customary International Law: Recognition of Customary International Law, The International Court of Justice, Bilateral Versus Multilateral Customary International Law, Other Customary International Laws
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“There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.”
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