Conclusion to Part II

Abstract

Part II has sought to analyze the traditional sources of public international law—general principles of law, conventional international law, and customary international law—from the perspective of the mutual exclusivity of the framework of obligation and the framework of authorization. Relying on the incoherence arising from the vertical structure of the concept of law underlying the concept of public international law, the argument has subsequently resituated the traditional sources of public international law within the reformulated framework developed in Part I.