Document Type

Article

Repository Date

1982

Keywords

International Law, Jurisprudence, Naturalism, Positivism

Subject Categories

International Law | Jurisprudence | Law | Legal History | Legal Theory

Abstract

A reader of jurisprudence might conclude that only philosophers raise the question whether international law may be said to exist or is really law. But in terms of frequency, the question is probably raised more often by governments and states that are not trying to be philosophical. The increasing attention being paid to the need for, and the procedures for, objective validation of rules of international law in a burgeoning literature of international law evidences the seriousness of the problem, the responsibility of scholars for careful scholarship in this area of legal theory, and ultimately the good possibility of generally accepted standards for that kind of objective validation.

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