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The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns [Note 1] is a legal treatise on international law by Emerich de Vattel, published in 1758.
International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.
In Roman law and legal traditions influenced by it, ius gentium or jus gentium (Latin for "law of nations" or "law of peoples") is the law that applies to all gentes ("peoples" or "nations"). It was an early form of international law , comprising not a body of statute law or legal code , [ 1 ] but the customary law thought to be held in common ...
International law, also known as "law of nations", refers to the body of rules which regulate the conduct of sovereign states in their relations with one another. [1] Sources of international law include treaties, international customs, general widely recognized principles of law, the decisions of national and lower courts, and scholarly writings.
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.
The Charter of the United Nations (1945) in fact reflects the fact that the traditional notion of state sovereignty remains the key concept in the law of nations. However, as recent research has shown, ius contra bellum (the outlawry of war) has its roots in 19th century legal and political discourse.
The American attitude and actions relating to the international law of trade is just one example of this abandonment. The absence of the international rule of law is the international rule of power.
The 1864 Geneva Convention, one of the earliest formulations of written international law. The concept of a peaceful community of nations had been proposed as early as 1795, when Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch [12] outlined the idea of a league of nations to control conflict and promote peace between states. [13]