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Cours general de droit international public. By Georges Abi-Saab. In Recueil des cours: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law (Vol. 207, 1987). The Hague, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1996. Pp. 463.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Bruno Simma
Bruno Simma*
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University of Munich
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 92 , Issue 3 , July 1998 , pp. 577 - 579
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1998

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References

1 La Coutume dans tous ses états, ou le dilemme du développement du droit international général dans un monde éclaté, 1 Le Droit International à L’heure de sa codification: Etudes en l’honneur de Roberto Ago 53 (1987).

2 This reviewer has nowhere found a more vivid description of the very essence of this difference than that on p. 178:

De fleurs sauvages, les règies coutumières sont devenues des plantes de serre, des peries de culture. La coutume traditionnelle, celle que le professeur René Jean Dupuy appelle la «coutume sage» lente et imperceptible, est en réalité la «coutume sauvage» et la nouvelle coutume, apprivoisée et mise en service commandé, la vraie «coutume sage».

3 Martti Koskenniemi, Book Review, 9 Eur. J. Int’l L. (forthcoming 1998).