Codification Light: A New Trend in the Codification of International Law at the United Nations

AuthorSantiago Villalpando
PositionGraduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Pages117-155
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    

    -
  -
        

   
      



-

     3
        
 5 Prevention of
  6  The law
8 and Ef-
         
-

standing on their own, irrespective of a possible follow-up convention.
       
favouring working methods that lead to the preparation of soft law instruments,
which do not have the vocation of becoming an international convention at all.
        
 
       -
2   
         


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4
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        
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clauses.          
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     -
tion effort through hard law instruments, and there is an increased interest in codi-
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international level to result in the adoption of a formal source of law, i.e. an inter-
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     
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          
-
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      
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