POLS 3630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dutch East India Company, Member States Of The United Nations, Montevideo Convention

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3630
• Professor: Cynthia Nantais

Document Summary

This lesson examines who and/or what has direct rights and duties under international law and who and/or what has a legally recognized identity as a primary and secondary actor in the international legal system. Lesson plan: read the lesson notes below, read: dixon, textbook on international law 7th edition, chapter 5, complete the to do list. An entity with international legal personality is said to be a subject of international law. Entities that lack this direct relationship are called objects of international law. Legal personality suggests a person or entity that can act legally. At international law, it means someone (person or entity) who can apply international law and have international law applied against them. Not all subjects have the same rights, duties and obligations at international law. In classical international law, after independent countries had come to dominate international political life, states were the only actors, the only entitles with international legal personality.