The Unilateral Actions of Persons of International Law and their Impact on the Emergence of Customary International Rule

Abstract

Unilateral actions derive their international validity from their conformity and non-violation of the principles of international action in general, while there is another field for unilateral actions that are issued by a group of countries by adopting texts of similar legal legislation, that is, joint adoption of a specific rule, but despite this, such texts remain acts. Unilateralism has no legal effect towards other countries unless it gradually moves to the ranks of customary international rules. Thus, it can be said that the framework mentioned in the above article regarding the official sources of international law cannot encompass all the legal rules that govern international relations at the present time, and the extent to which These unilateral actions and their role in forming customary international rules.                                                

  Thus, hardly any book on public international law is devoid of addressing the subject of international custom as it is one of the main sources of public international law referred to in Article (38/1/b) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice as the article responsible for clarifying these sources, as it is considered Customary international rules are among the most important sources of public international law, because most of the rules of this law have acquired a global character and have become established in the international environment through customary rules, thus revealing the factors of integration and cooperation that can occur between them.