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  2. History of international law - Wikipedia

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    The history of international law examines the evolution and development of public international law in both state practice and conceptual understanding. Modern international law developed out of Renaissance Europe and is strongly entwined with the development of western political organisation at that time.

  3. Common heritage of humanity - Wikipedia

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    Earthrise, photographed during an orbit of the Moon by William Anders during the 1968 Apollo 8 mission. Common heritage of humanity (also termed the common heritage of mankind, common heritage of humankind or common heritage principle) is a principle of international law that holds the defined territorial areas and elements of humanity's common heritage (cultural and natural) should be held in ...

  4. International law - Wikipedia

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    There is a distinction between public and private international law; the latter is concerned with whether national courts can claim jurisdiction over cases with a foreign element and the application of foreign judgments in domestic law, whereas public international law covers rules with an international origin. [6]

  5. League of Nations Codification Conference, 1930 - Wikipedia

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    The League of Nations Codification Conference was held in The Hague from 13 March to 12 April 1930, for the purpose of formulating accepted rules in international law to subjects that until then were not addressed thoroughly. The conference's main achievement was the conclusion of the first international convention on the conflict of ...

  6. Legal history - Wikipedia

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    Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilisations [ 1 ] and operates in the wider context of social history .

  7. Sources of international law - Wikipedia

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    Article 38(1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice is generally recognized as a definitive statement of the sources of international law. [2] It requires the Court to apply, among other things, (a) international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states; (b) international custom, as evidence of a general ...

  8. Emer de Vattel - Wikipedia

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    The son of a Protestant minister, Vattel was born at Couvet, Neuchâtel, on the 25th of April 1714. [3] He studied classics and philosophy at Basel and Geneva. [3] During his early years his favorite pursuit was philosophy and, having carefully studied the works of Leibniz and Christian Wolff, he published in 1741 a defence of Leibniz's system against Jean-Pierre de Crousaz.

  9. Comparative legal history - Wikipedia

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    Comparative legal history is the study of law in two or more different places or at different times. [1] [2] [3] As a discipline, it emerged between 1930 and 1960 in response to legal formalism, [4] and builds on scattered uses of legal-historical comparison since antiquity. [5]