ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Positivism, Peremptory Norm, Adversarial System
Document Summary
The nature of international law and the international. System: the existence of any set of rules. Its effectiveness in controlling states and other international actors in real life" situations. One of the primary purposes of international law the maintenance of an ordered community where the weak are protected from arbitrary action by the strong. The most obvious and most frequently used test for judging the existence" or. Success" of international law is to compare it with national legal systems. International law: comprises a system of rules and principles that govern the international relations between sovereign states and other institutional subjects of international law (such as un, the arab league and the african union). The rules of international law are created by states themselves: either for their own purposes, or as a means of facilitating and controlling the activities of other international actors. International law facilitates the functioning of the international community.
