The definition of the principles in the Contemporary international law

Abstract

This article has two purposes: the first one is to prove the lack of a conventional, doctrinal and jurisprudential definition of the general principles of the international law. This deficiency has been and continues being, one of the greatest obstacles which have prevented to structure a satisfactory science and philosophy of those principles. The second purpose consists on establishing two definitions for the principles, by doing so, they are put in equal conditions with the other two processes which constitute general norms of the international law: the treaties and the custom, these two sources have indeed conventional, doctrinal and jurisprudential definitions. To reach such purposes, a bibliographical track on contemporary international law is made and an analysis of the philosophical and legal nature of its principles is carried out.