مصادرالقانون الدولي للمجاري المائية الدولية

Abstract EN

International rivers have benefited from a legal system framed for the way countries would utilize their waters.

This system's rules vary between official and provisional rules.

The official sources are represented by international treaties, customs and the general principles of law.

The provisional sources, to which the judge may have recourse in case the official ones fail to solve the dispute that is assigned to him, are judgements – the first constructive source that builds up the legal rules setting the exploitation of waterways.

Furthermore, the jurists' opinions are considered as the second provisional source.

The principles of justice and fairness are considered as one of the different provisional sources of the international law of rivers.