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Laurynas Ramuckis 2118 International Environmental Law Prof. R. Caddell What is the status of the precautionary principle in International Law? 1. Introduction Development of International Environmental Law cannot be traced too deep into the past. The concepts of this subject are still relatively new in the international arena. Nevertheless, they play major roles in the process of the evolution of customary international law rules. That is to say about precautionary principle which has attained a significant role in the national and international discourse of environmental law and policy. 1 This paper is an effort to define precautionary principle within the frames of international environmental law and to look into the history of evolution of this principle. Furthermore, it is an attempt to assess the role of this principle in the international customary law through treaties' provisions embodying the precautionary principle and the decisions of the International Court of Justice with regard to the present approach. Moreover,...

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