Judgement: The Law Relating to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity[5]; în: arhivele Proiectului Avalon (Avalon Project) de la Facultatea de Drept a Universității Yale (Yale Law School; v. In the opinion of the Tribunal it is not necessary to decide this question. The rules of land warfare expressed in the Convention undoubtedly represented an advance over existing international law at the time of their adoption. But the Convention expressly stated that it was an attempt " to revise the general laws and customs of war," which it thus recognised to be then existing, but by 1939 these rules laid down in the Convention were recognised by all civilised nations, and were regarded as being declaratory of the laws and customs of war which are referred to in Article 6 (b) of the Charter. "
