General Principles of Law as Applied by International Courts and Tribunals - Paperbackby Bin Cheng (Author), Cheng Bin (Author), Georg Schwarzenberger (Foreword by) The municipal codes of well over a dozen countries expressly provide for the application of the general principles of law in the absence of specific legal provisions or of custom, and the Statute of the International Court of Justice stipulates that 'the general principles of law recognised by civilised nations' constitute one of the sources of international law to be