POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Legal Personality, Jus Ad Bellum, United Nations General Assembly
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Domestic law: a rule of conduct or procedure established by custom, agreement, or authority; the body of rules and principles governing the affairs of a community and enforced by a political authority; a legal system. If you sign a contract you must abide by it. Every treaty in force is binding upon the parties to it and must be performed by them in good faith (the vienna convention on the law of treaties, 1969) Roman law: jus civile vs. jus gentium. Natural law: the law of nature; a law that exists independently of the legal. Civil law: regulated the civilians of rome system of given political order; universality. Legal positivism: laws are rules made by human beings and thus are embedded in the social and political contexts in which they were created; there is no inherent or necessary connection between law and morality. Hugo grotius (1583-1645) revives the jus gentium.
