LAWS 2601 Study Guide - Hugo Grotius, Monoculturalism, Inter Se
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International law and developing world: a millennial analysis. The article entitled, international law and developing world: a millennial analysis 1, seeks to proliferate knowledge about international law. In this, the author, justice christopher: weeramantry purports to offer up a non-western idealization of international law but instead he looks to amalgamate various outlooks from different historical cultures derived from the third. In his article, weeramantry sets out to help the reader realize that international law did not derive from one culture but instead, many. He notes that unless the problems pertaining to the third world are not fixed that international law will not be able to deliver what is expected and will therefore not be universal law. His view is that the idea of international law needs to be essentially reinvented. In its reinvention it needs to be multi-faceted in the way of taking different cultural historical literatures into account.
