La moralidad interna del derecho internacional
Journal: Revista Jurídica Austral
Year: 2022

In this essay we build on public fiduciary theory and Lon Fuller’s notion of the internal morality of law. We posit two criteria necessary to establish the internal morality of international law. We argue that the internal morality of international law is derived from the synthesis of a fiduciary criterion of legitimacy and the prohibition of unilateralism. The former refers to the idea that any public action which cannot be reasonably said to be made in the name of, or on behalf of, those subje