Practice question
Under the ILC identification framework, what quality must a practice have to be general?
- It must be performed once by one private person
- It must be exactly one hundred years old
- It must appear only in secret private notes
- It must be identical to a domestic criminal statute in every State
- It must be sufficiently widespread, representative and consistent
Legal references
- Statute of the International Court of Justice, Article 38(1)(b): https://legal.un.org/avl/pdf/ha/sicj/icj_statute_e.pdf
- International Law Commission, Conclusions on identification of customary international law (2018), Conclusions 2–12 and 15: https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/draft_articles/1_13_2018.pdf
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