As Shannon Bosch (EdithCowanU) puts it (parallel to points in my timeline yesterday):
'International law matters precisely because departures from it can be identified, judged & condemned'.
This remains important because as Louis Henkin pointed out:
'Almost all nations observe almost all principles of international law and almost all of their obligations almost all of the time' (a quote I have alluded to myself).
International law is not useless!
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