如果会员国甚至国际律师坚持将跨时代原则用作对种族不公正和不平等进行赔偿和补救的壁垒，他们实际上就是在坚持适用新殖民主义法。法律工作更适当地面对了发展能够确保所有人得到不分种族的平等待遇和承认的国际理论，这在一定程度上就是关于对奴隶制和殖民主义作出赔偿问题的辩论所涉及的利害关系。
When Member States and even international lawyers insist on the application of the intertemporal principle as a bar to pursuing reparation and remediation of racial injustice and inequality, they are, in effect, insisting on the application of neocolonial law. Legal efforts are more appropriately directed at developing international doctrine that can ensure the equal treatment and recognition of all human beings irrespective of race, and that is, in part, what is at stake in debates on reparations for slavery and colonialism.