 | 1949 - 1318 pages
...The IMT associated itself fully with this concept and stated on the subject as follows, and I quote: "The law of war is to be found not only in treaties,...adaptation follows the needs of a changing world." 2 Adaptation to the needs of a changing world — that is also the function of international law and... | |
 | BenjÄ mîn NetanyÄ hû - 1981 - 402 pages
...1945-1946, has added its massive weight. In its judgment that court declared that the law of war was to be found not only in treaties, but in the customs...treaties do no more than express and define, for more accurate reference, the principles of law already exisitng. Another source of international law lies... | |
 | Yoram Dinstein - 1989 - 376 pages
...provisions on the same subject, and particularly so in view of the Nuremberg Tribunal's finding that "the law of war is to be found not only in treaties,...general principles of justice applied by jurists and practised by military courts".5 Although this survival of the 1907 Hague Conventions and Regulations,... | |
 | George Ginsburgs, Vladimir Nikolaevich Kudri︠a︡vt︠s︡ev - 1990 - 314 pages
...Paris have to deal with general principles of law, and not with administrative matters of procedure. The law of war is to be found not only in treaties,...general principles of justice applied by jurists and practised by military courts. This law is not static, but by continual adaptation follows the needs... | |
 | Vincent Coussirat-Coustère, Pierre Michel Eissemann - 1989 - 1048 pages
...Paris have to deal with general principles of law, and not with administrative matters of procedure. The law of war is to be found not only in treaties,...treaties do no more than express and define for more accurate reference the principles of law already existing. The view which the Tribunal takes of the... | |
 | Nagendra Singh, R. S. Pathak, Ramaa Prasad Dhokalia - 1992 - 426 pages
...He also pointed to that important passage in the Nuremberg judgment where the Tribunal States that "the law of war is to be found not only in treaties but in customs and practices of States, which gradually obtained universal recognition, and from the general... | |
 | Academie de Droit International de la Haye - 1994 - 502 pages
...indictment, had made an unfair ex post facto effort to remedy these deficiencies. The Tribunal said : "The law of war is to be found not only in treaties...military courts. This law is not static, but by continual adaption follows the needs of a changing world. Indeed, in many cases treaties do no more than express... | |
 | A. C. Kiss - 1995 - 380 pages
...of specific circumstances. As the International Military Tribunal at Niirnberg put it, international law "is not static, but by continual adaptation follows the needs of a changing world".10 Whenever new institutions are set up that turn out to be useful and productive, they may... | |
 | Joseph Rotblat - 1995 - 224 pages
...Tribunal, convened in Nuremberg to prosecute Nazi leaders after World War II, applied in concluding that the law of war is to be found not only in treaties but also in the customs and practices of states, and that, by its continual adaptation, this law follows... | |
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This law is not static, but by continual adaptation follows the needs of a changing world. Indeed, in many cases treaties do no more than express and define for more accurate reference the principles of law already existing. 
