Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 July 2020
The infinite variety of ephemeral arbitral tribunals may well use abuse of right as a high-sounding phrase to justify their intuitions, but it takes more than that to establish a general principle of international law under the Statute of the International Court of Justice. The Court itself has never decided a case on the basis of abuse of right. In one of its judgments in 2018, its prudence with respect to such abstract notions was illustrated by refusal to accept ‘legitimate expectations’ as a general principle.
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