Legality of the Threat or Use

ICJ East Timor case (Portugal v. Australia), Judgment 30 June 1995,1.C.J. Reports 1995 ICJ (Advisory Opinion) Legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons, 8 July 1996. See also ICJ (Advisory Opinion) Legal consequences of the construction of a wall in the occupied Palestinian Territory, 9 July 2004... 

Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion, 1996 I.C.J. 226, paras 24-25 (July 8) [hereinafter Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion]. 

Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, [1996] I.C.J. Rep. 226, 234, para 13 (hereinafter the Nuclear Weapons Case) (where the International Court of Justice states The fact that this question also has political aspects, as, in the nature of things, is the case with so many questions which arise in international hfe, does not suffice to deprive it of its character as a legal question and to deprive the Court of a competence expressly conferred on it by its Statute ). 

GA resolutions can be seen as important and influential to international law. The resolutions are mostly connected to customary international law. This was inter alia discussed in the Advisory Opinion of the ICJ on the Legality of the Threat and the Use of Nuclear Weapons. GA resolutions can contribute to customary international law and they can also state what customary international law is. Similarly, GA resolutions can also be connected to the other sources listed under art. 38 (1) ICJ-S where they strengthen or restate existing or emerging law. " ... 

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