Landmark case · Public International Law · Semester 4

Asylum Case (Colombia/Peru)

ICJ Reports 1950, p. 266 · International Court of Justice

A customary rule must be the expression of a constant and uniform practice accepted as law; Colombia failed to prove a regional custom of unilateral diplomatic asylum.

From topic

Article 38 sources: treaties, custom, general principles and subsidiary means — Unit I, Public International Law.

Related sections:

Statute of the International Court of Justice, 38(1)(a) — International conventions
Statute of the International Court of Justice, 38(1)(b) — International custom as evidence of a general practice accepted as law
Statute of the International Court of Justice, 38(1)(c) — General principles of law recognised by civilised nations
Statute of the International Court of Justice, 38(1)(d) — Judicial decisions and teachings as subsidiary means