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international customary legal norms  

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  • Lawyers often use customary international law broadly to refer to all generally applicable non-treatybased international law. In a narrower and more technical sense, scholars mean those rules of nonwritten international law that express a consistent and general pattern of state behavior that has continued for some duration of time and that is accompanied with the conviction that the behavior is required as a matter of law (opinio juris).Customary law is one of the three primary sources of international law laid out in the Statute of the International Court of Justice (art. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Customary Legal Norms, International]

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