The equidistance principle was not a necessary consequence of the general concept of continental shelf rights, and was not a rule of customary international law.
1.3 the nature of public international law
the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods as a uniform of international trade ;CISG
No more than individuals do states defend their violations by claiming that they are above the law. States defend their violations by claiming that they are above the law no more than individuals.
International Court of Justice
2. Sources of international law
Formal source
Material source
Article 38(1) of the 1946 Statute of the International Court of Justice Major source
The Peace of Westphalia was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648. These treaties ended the Thirty Years' War (1618– 1648) in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) between Spain and the Dutch Republic, with Spain formally recognizing the independence of the Dutch Republic.