Treaties as a primary source of public international law

Abstract

The doctrine of the sources of international law has provided many services to international law in the last century, as it provided a coherent legal structure during a period in which international law was expanding rapidly and dramatically, but it began to enter into a strong and increasingly challenge as it is based on the fact that treaties are the first, basis and most important source of commitment In international law, while state practices indicate that treaties are weak guarantees of commitment, and the credibility of their weakness is the repeated violations of treaties, which made skeptics of international law see these violations as evidence of the ineffectiveness of international law, and they pose the following forms, if international law is linked to treaties as The traditional doctrine of sources believes that treaties do not have any effect on the work of the state, so can international law really be a "law"? On the other hand, the expansion taking place in the international community, the emergence of peremptory international rules related to human rights, in addition to recent developments in international legal theory, and the need for the international system to adapt to changing conditions in the international community, all of this pressured us to rethink the hoped-for role of the treaty in determining The rules of international law as well as a review of the credibility of the Treaty is issued as the first and most important sources of international law.