REGNRSG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: United Nations Secretariat, Monism, World Trade Organization
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International law: to govern states, how they behave with each other. It is relatively young and continually developing, especially since ww2. There is no central enforcement or legislative system. It is created by states, for states and is enforced by them. International law affects in every day in usually unseen ways; environment, sea, human rights, the use of force by states, space etc. Subjects are the actors within the international legal system; the entities within in. And you are a subject when you have an international legal personality. It means you have the ability to act within international law. Capacities; to create treaties, to enjoy immunity, to bring a case to an international court. International legal personality is not an absolute state, rather a sliding scale. On one end there are states (with absolute personality) and on the other you have individuals, ngos and. States make international law and have original legal personality.
