Practice question
A research team considers a customary rule affecting several regions but searches only sources in one familiar language. It possesses reliable translations of relevant, rigorous scholarship from other legal systems yet excludes them solely for their original language. Which approach follows the ILC commentary?
- Only one language can express international law.
- All translated work is automatically binding.
- Regional diversity makes legal reasoning unnecessary.
- Have regard, so far as possible, to scholarship across principal legal systems, regions and languages while evaluating each work’s quality.
- Exclude every work not published in the forum State.
Legal references
- International Law Commission, 2018 Conclusions on Identification of Customary International Law, Conclusion 14 and commentary paragraphs 1-4: https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/commentaries/1_13_2018.pdf
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