TY - JOUR
AU - Saunders, Imogen
AB - 1IntroductionSir Robert Jennings once wrote ‘I have never been convinced of the supposed importance of ‘general principles of law’ as a source of international law’.1 I like this quote so much that I opened my own book on Article 38(1)(c) with it.2 In his book on general principles of law (referred to as General Principles in this essay), Patrick Dumberry also contextualises his work in light of the historical disinterest paid to General Principles in the discussion of sources of international investment law, complete with a dismissive quote from Patrick Juillard (p. 3). Perhaps it is a trend for those studying General Principles to point to its neglect, or comment on the derision with which the source has been treated. Why is it that those who devote considerable amounts of time to studying this source most feel the need to point out its marginalisation?It is true that, with a few notable exceptions,3 for a long time there had not been much academic attention paid to general principles of law since Bin Cheng’s seminal text.4 This has surely changed. In addition to the recent work on General Principles in international investment law that Dumberry identifies (p. 3), there has been 
TI - Chasing the Rabbit: The Resurgence of General Principles of Law in International Investment Law and Beyond
JF - The Journal of World Investment & Trade
DO - 10.1163/22119000-12340233
DA - 2021-12-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/chasing-the-rabbit-the-resurgence-of-general-principles-of-law-in-ljVN0rVo4T
SP - 457
EP - 475
VL - 23
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -