The International Legal System: Cases and Materials. By Joseph Modeste Sweeney, Covey T. Oliver and Noyes E. Leech. Mineola, New York: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1981, Pp. xciii, 1371, U.S. $26.50; and International Law in Contemporary Perspective: The Public Order of the World Community. By Myres S. McDOUGAL and W. Michael Reisman. Mineola, New York: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1981. Pp. lxviii, 1584. U.S. $29.00.

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Harold G. Maier
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Public Order ◽  
The Public ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Perspective ◽  
International Legal System

scholarly journals Why we should see international law as a structure: Unpicking international law’s ontology and agency

2020 ◽  
pp. 004711782091622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Surface Structure ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Deep Structure ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
The World ◽  
International Legal System

This article identifies how three dominant ideas of international law (as a process, an institution and a practice) see its agency, concluding that all three share a reluctance to see international law as doing anything more than enabling the operation of other actors, forces or structures. This article argues that we should see international law as a structure because it possesses both the surface structure of rules, principles, processes, personnel and material elements of the international legal system and a deep structure of values that sits deep within our subconscious. As Shklar’s idea of legalism shows us, legalism plays a powerful role in shaping all our understandings of ourselves and the world that surrounds us. Seeing international law as a structure enables us to see how it locates actors within a social hierarchy and how it behaves in similar ways to recognised structures like capitalism and racism.

Some Aspects of the Jurisprudence of National Claims Commissions

1942 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert R. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
General Public ◽  
The World ◽  
International Legal System ◽  
Principle Of Legality

Many applications of international law receive but little attention from the general public. Unpublicized or little-publicized settlements involving relatively obscure persons and comparatively small amounts of money tend to be undramatic. They may seem of little importance during a period of major, kaleidoscopic developments in a worldwide conflict. But the fact remains that in numerous instances rules have become the bases for the disposition of practical questions which were of importance to the individuals immediately involved and of some concern to their respective governments. Collectively, these dispositions may help to attest the vitality of the principle of legality. At a time when the world situation puts in question the very fundamental elements of an international legal system, there may still be justification for drawing attention to the manner in which settlements of private claims against governments have been and are effected.

scholarly journals THE WORLD OF WHITE DEMOCRATES OR WHY THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEM RE-QUIRES REFORMATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.S. Sokha
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Main Task ◽  
World War ◽  
World Community ◽  
The People ◽  
Priority Task ◽  
The World ◽  
International Legal System ◽  
Second World

International institutions, conventions, agreements, etc. did not realize the main task after the Second World War – maintaining peace, preventing wars, crises, world shocks through diplomatic regulation. Actual is the issue of identifying the causes, analyzing them and proposing solutions to the problems that have arisen before the world community. The new mechanism, which is proposed, should be based on the understanding of naturalness for a certain nation, race, take into account primarily the mental, historical, cultural, and other realities of the people living. The first priority task for international law is to protect and develop issues of global importance, which really affect the interests of each person regardless of their place of residence, but now we observe interference, imposing a model of white democracy for each region.

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