INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION OF THE PROVISION OF THE UN CHARTER ON “THE TEACHINGS OF THE MOST HIGHLY QUALIFIED PUBLICISTS OF THE VARIOUS NATIONS”
- Authors: Savenkov A.N.1, Vylegzhanin A.N.2
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Affiliations:
- Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- MGIMO University
- Issue: No 9 (2025)
- Pages: 7-23
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/1026-9452/article/view/318305
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S1026945225090018
- ID: 318305
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Abstract
The current increase in competition of international legal policy of States call for the paramount importance of interpretations of concepts used in the UN Charter – the core source of International Law which prevails other international treaties. In light of this political and legal background, this paper explores the notion of “teachings of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations”. International legal doctrines of legal scholars, as enshrined in Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, are used as “subsidiary means for the determination of rules of law”. This article reveals the international legal scope of this notion and of the term “the most highly qualified publicists”, as well as the practice of the ICJ in the application of the teachings of legal scholars. The authors also propose a definition of such legal teachings and criteria for qualifying a legal research as international legal teaching according to the ICJ Statute. It is described in the paper why this notion is not legally identical to the notion of “science of International Law”.
About the authors
A. N. Savenkov
Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: an61s@yandex.ru
Moscow
A. N. Vylegzhanin
MGIMO University
Email: danilalvy@mail.ru
Moscow
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