LAW 1508 Study Guide - Final Guide: Question Answering, Contiguity, Absolute Liability
19 Sep 2018
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The field of international law is concerned with law that principally operates among sovereign countries (states) arising from sources such as treaties and the customary practice of states. Analytical framework directed at the study of common legal subjects across different domestic (national) legal systems. The location and use of a particular legal jurisdiction to resolve private legal disputes that cross national borders. All law is politics, has some sort of political influence. States are the objects and not the subjects of international law. Legal capacity to make international law, bind themselves to treaties, create/ resist customary international law, only states my develop international law. Sources of international law article 38(1) icj statute. Only states may enter into treaties/ develop customary international law. Erosion of national barriers, leading to an increase in power of international bureaucracies and organizations. Steady and inexorable growth of international law as a distinct discipline and vocabulary.
