American History Connecting with the Past McGraw HillE ducation (2014)
Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island’s beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts.
Law can only exist in a society, and there can be no society without a system of law to regulate the relations of its members with one another.
This introductory chapter briefly explores the practice of theorizing international law. Theorizing is an inherent part of the practice of international law. Theories of international law have attempted to demonstrate that laws governing the conduct of sovereigns exist at all, and have been concerned with the attempt to connect emerging forms of international legal practice to a philosophical or historical tradition from which international law is said to originate, or to develop a method for interpreting or systematizing international law.
The emergence of international law and its initial development refers to the era of the Ancient World and has received limited coverage in the arena of both foreign and domestic legal science.
The disputes arising among those who are held together by no common bond of civil laws to decide their dissensions, like the ancient Patriarchs, who formed no national community, or the numerous, unconnected communities,
In the longmarch ofmankind from the cave to the computer a central role has always been played by the idea oflaw – the idea that order is necessary and chaos inimical to a just and stable existence.
The term ‘international law’ was first used by Jeremy Bentham in 1780 in his Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Since about 1840, in the English and Romance languages it has replaced the older terminology ‘law of nations’ or ‘droit de gens’
Discuss the significance and increasing role of International Society in the classically sovereign domains of state with reference to United Nations. Also debate whether the UN in its present structure of status can play the increased role expected of it? (2011)