Posted on November 04, 2016
The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that Professor Dire Tladi from the Department of Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria has been re-elected by 153 votes on Thursday, 3 November 2016, as Special Rapporteur of the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC) for the topic Jus Cogens.[1] Since his first appointment at the end of May 2015, Professor Tladi is leading the Commission to give content to Jus Cogens, by identifying how rules and norms are elevated to the status of Jus Cogens and determining the impact of these norms.
The International Law Commission was established by the General Assembly, in 1947, to undertake the mandate of the Assembly, under article 13 (1) (a) of the Charter of the United Nations to "initiate studies and make recommendations for the purpose of ... encouraging the progressive development of international law and its codification".[2]
[1] Jus Cogens is a body of peremptory principles or norms from which no derogation is permitted; those norms recognized by the international community as a whole as being fundamental to the maintenance of an international legal order. Elementary rules that concern the safeguarding of peace and notably those that prohibit recourse to force or the threat of force. Norms of a humanitarian nature are included, such as prohibitions against genocide, slavery, and racial discrimination. Therefore Jus Cogens may operate to invalidate a treaty or agreement between states to the extent of the inconsistency with any such principles or norms.
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