Ius Cogens, Soft Law and the Current Political Goals of Participants in International Relations: An Example of Research in the Common Field of Political Theory and International Legal Theory Cover Image

Ius cogens i soft law a bieżące cele polityczne uczestników relacji międzynarodowych – przykład badań mieszczących się we wspólnej przestrzeni teorii polityki i teorii prawa międzynarodowego
Ius Cogens, Soft Law and the Current Political Goals of Participants in International Relations: An Example of Research in the Common Field of Political Theory and International Legal Theory

Author(s): Brygida Kuźniak
Subject(s): International Law, Politics and law, Sociology of Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Keywords: public international law; ius cogens; soft law; politics; international relations;

Summary/Abstract: The vast majority of norms constituting public international law are ordinary norms (ius dispositivum), however, some of them are of a special nature, and this specificity places them at the two opposite poles of this specialty of law. These are the mandatory norms (ius cogens), from which no deviation is allowed, and the norms that are not legally binding, i.e., are only postulative (soft law). The aim of this paper is an attempt to answer the question whether those specific norms of public international law, i.e., those having a character of ius cogens as well as the norms of soft law, can be used as an instrument for the realization of the current political goals of participants in interna- tional relations.

  • Issue Year: 48/2022
  • Issue No: 41
  • Page Range: 41-51
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish