Vienna Convention

Jus cogens, or compelling law, refers to a category of norms that govern customary international law. The Latin term is used interchangeably with the English term “peremptory norm”. 

Jus cogens norms differ from other norms in two key respects. 

• international law
• International Court of Justice
• Vienna Convention
• international treaties
• TREATIES

• evidence
• international law
• criminal law
• suppression
• constitutional law
• Vienna Convention
• habeas relief
• consular relations

Appealed from: Sanchez: Supreme Court of Oregon; Bustillo: Supreme Court of Virginia

Oral argument: March 29, 2006