POLS 3652 Lecture Notes - Jus Gentium, Hugo Grotius, Wilhelm Grewe
16 Oct 2013
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Law is a complex set of rules, procedures and agencies supported and enforced by politically organized societies. There is a distinction between law and rights: law is not always right, rights are not always law, the meaning of law is linked to the phenomenon of order. There is no society outside of legal normativity. It shapes the behavior of individuals: the term international law is new and replaced law of nations or jus guntium , bentham was an english thinker who wrote books on criminality. Founding father of legal analysis of criminality. After the book, the term became official. Introduction to the principles of morals and legislations. International society is the society of collective entities. Society of nations, society of state, society of complex entities (ex: organizations) Clarification: public international law vs. private international law. Private governs private relations that has international aspects. Public governs inter-state relations or the subjects of international law.
