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Jus Cogens
A peremptory norm (also called jus cogens or ius cogens, Latin for "compelling law") is a fundamental principle of international law which is accepted by the international community of states as a norm from which no derogation is ever permitted.
There is no clear agreement regarding precisely which norms are jus cogens — or indeed how a norm reaches the status of jus cogens — but it is generally accepted that jus cogens includes the prohibition of genocide, piracy, slaving in general (to include slavery as well as the slave trade), torture, and wars of aggression and territorial aggrandizement.
Criddle & Fox-Decent on Jus Cogens
Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent (Syracuse University College of Law and McGill University - Faculty of Law) have posted A Fiduciary Theory of Jus Cogens (Yale Journal of International Law, Vol...
The Religiosity of Jus Cogens: A Moral Case for Compliance?
Jus cogens can be defined as law that imports notions of universally applicable norms into the international legal process.
New L&C Law Scholarship: Why Private Remedies for Environmental Torts Under the Alien Tort Statute Should Not Be Constrained by the Judicially Created Doctrines of Jus Cogens and Exhaustion
Mark W. Wilson, Why Private Remedies for Environmental Torts Under the Alien Tort Statute Should Not Be Constrained by the Judicially Created Doctrines of Jus Cogens and Exhaustion, 39 Environmental Law Review 451 (2009)
This Comment examines the history of the Alien Tort Statute, a provision of the Federal Judiciary Act of 1789, and demonstrates how [...
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