LAWS 2601 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hugo Grotius, Close And Open Harmony, Utopia
21 Nov 2017
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Week 1 a short history of international law. Introduction: state practice is concerned with what states actually did. It was the two in combination if not always in close harmony that made international law what it became. (3-4) Ancient worlds: for a vivid indication of how persons from even the most diverse cultures can relate to one another in a peaceful, predictable, and mutually beneficial fashion, it is difficult to top. Herodotus"s description of silent trading" between the carthaginians and an unnamed north. African tribe in about the sixth century bc. (4) Just as the law of nature was universal in the natural world, so was the jus gentium universal in the human world. (5) This in fact was the conceptual kernel of natural law"s most outstanding contribution to international law: the doctrine of the just war. (6-7) Instead, it simply treated each side as if it had lawfully resorted to war.
