There has been a recent proliferation of scholarship on the development, identification, and determination of customary international law [CIL]. Much of this has focused on explication of the theoretical and practical problems inherent in the modern use of CIL as a source of international law. However, there are influential voices who argue that CIL nevertheless continues to play a necessary role in the international legal system, and that many of the problems that have been identified are exaggerated. This paper maintains that the problems which have been identified in the processes of identification and determination of CIL are of such a serious and institutionalized nature as to produce a presumptive distrust of any statement about what is or is not CIL. It argues that the process of identifying and authoritatively determining CIL must evolve to more objectively evidence the positive assent of states to the making of customary rules.

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为什么我不再相信习惯国际法

最近，关于习惯国际法 [CIL] 的发展、识别和确定的学术研究激增。其中大部分集中在解释现代使用习惯国际法作为国际法渊源所固有的理论和实践问题。然而，有影响力的声音认为，尽管如此，习惯国际法仍继续在国际法律体系中发挥必要的作用，并且已经确定的许多问题被夸大了。本文认为，在识别和确定习惯国际法的过程中发现的问题具有如此严重和制度化的性质，以至于对任何关于什么是或不是习惯国际法的陈述产生推定的不信任。