PO333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: United Nations General Assembly, International Law Commission, Ultimate Power
Document Summary
Law can only exist in a society, and there can be no society without a system of law to regulate the relation of its members with one another . International law is the body of rules and regulations that govern the relations between states. States come together and form the global community. Helps create and sustain a global community. Regulates how individual members of that global community: how states should behave toward one another. Modern age (17th century) continues to this day (if you believe this) or ended a the start of the 20th century, replaced by post-modernism. Conditions that gave rise to peace of westphalia 1648 . 1568 80 year war began between spanish and dutch. 1588 spain moves to invade england. 1618 30 year war begins over religious and political difference across. The treaties that ended the wars brought the beginning of the modern. Principle of state sovereignty: fundamental right of self state determination.
