Resumen de Unilateral Acts of States in Public International Law. By Przemysław Saganek

Joanna Gomula (res.)

• Unlike the law of treaties, which has been codified since the 1960s, the ‘law of unilateral acts’ has featured little regulation and attracted relatively scarce doctrinal attention. In 1996 the International Law Commission (ILC) recognized that the topic of unilateral acts was appropriate for codification and progressive development. However, its work did not result in a comprehensive instrument. At its 58th session in 2006, the ILC adopted ten ‘Guiding Principles applicable to unilateral declarations of states capable of creating legal obligations’ (Guiding Principles).1 As the ILC explained in its introductory remarks, the Guiding Principles were limited to unilateral acts stricto sensu, that is, formal declarations ‘publicly made and manifesting the will to be...