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customary international law

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Definitions of customary international law

English

international law that has not been codified, but is based primarily on natural law and is recognised by the International Court of Justice and the member nations of the UN

They argued that as long as you can establish that an offence is a crime under customary international law then ipso facto it becomes an offence under English law.