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Whales: Their Emerging Right To Life, Anthony D'Amato, Sudhir K. Chopra
Whales: Their Emerging Right To Life, Anthony D'Amato, Sudhir K. Chopra
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We have contended in this article that the evolution of the opinio juris of nations has encompassed five, and perhaps six, inexorable qualitative stages: free resource, regulation, conservation, protection, preservation and entitlement. We have argued that assigning whales an entitlement to life is the consequence of an emerging humanist right in international law — an example of the merging of the "is" and the "ought" of the law in the process of legitimization