When you need a starting text on state responsibility, treaty reservations, immunity, or crimes against humanity, the ILC site is a source of draft articles, commentaries, and session materials rather than case strategy. It is most useful when the question is doctrinal: how a rule has been framed, debated, or progressively developed within the UN system.
Assess it as a research and reference source, not a filing channel. It suits academics, government lawyers, students, and policy staff who can read primary materials directly. If your matter turns on jurisdiction, pleading choices, sanctions exposure, domestic transposition, or advice for a live dispute, ILC materials should be supplemented with treaty text, jurisprudence, and qualified counsel.
