POLI 359 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Permanent Court Of International Justice, Soft Law, Estoppel

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 359
• Professor: Fernando Nunez- Mietz

Document Summary

January 13, 2016 white with blue stripes (blue undershirt) The legal actors of the united nations system. Artificial actors: natural actors: you can point to an actor. Legal personality: implies legal subjectivity, which implies that the entity in question has rights or obligations derived from international law: artificial actors: more difficult to point to an actor. States, international organizations, ngos, multinational corporations have personality under international law: actorhood: purposeful entity, one that has intentionality. Legal subjects vs. legal objects: legal subjects: have rights and or obligations under international law, legal objects: do not have rights/obligations directly recognized by intl law. Property: protected because it"s your property, and you have rights, but not the property, rather the fact that it is your rights that are being protected. Individuals became part of international law after war in the 19th c: states would get together and decide: If we go to war, then we will not torture each other"s captured soldiers.