GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nationstates
Document Summary
General principles of law: the most elemental rules contained in national or domestic legal system the world over o rules against theft and murder. International legal decisions: help shape further decisions ensuring consistency and predictability in the rules. International law scholarship: expert, peer-approved articles and books o informing. The goal of international law: order relations between nation-states through rational, predictable and mutually beneficial rules of conduct, institutions created to uphold international law. Intergovernmental organizations (igos) non-governmental organizations (ngos) Started 1648 when the treaty of westphalia was signed o brought end of the thirty-year war. Two core principles of international law o political sovereignty: territorial integrity. The process of treaty-making: problem or opportunity affecting two or more countries, search for solution, through proposals 3. Deal: after negotiated and approved the final treaty is drafted 4. Signing: head of state signs at public signing ceremony 5. Return to home country: treaty is brought back to the home countries 6.
