ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cuius Regio, Eius Religio, Peace Of Westphalia, Vedic Period
30 Sep 2020
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Generally, law lays down rules of behavior (establishes duties, rights, obligations) and provides a framework within which the society will be governed (place of actors or officials police, legislators, etc. , of a particular legal system). International law (term first used by bentham), however, governs the relations between state, which are the primary subjects of il. Concern situations involving individuals structures them; however, today also with a transboundary element (e. g. concerns the lives of individuals, since the international marriages, trade). Governs role of il has evolved. conflicts of rules of domestic legal systems. Treaties have existed since the beginning of civilization, e. g. interactions in mesopotamia, Vedic india, classical greece, treaty between egyptian pharaoh and hittite king, roman peace treaties. Then, in the middle ages, feudal agreements were abandoned in favor of centralized structures resembling states. Finally, the peace of westphalia (1648) established the notion of a nation state and started the idea of modern il".
