Concept information
Preferred term
law of nations
Definition
- The law of nations was the old term for what is now called international law, which purports to establish rules and obligations of sovereign states. It is obviously a special kind of law or a quite imperfect law because no international authority can enforce this law in the same way that states enforce law on their own people. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Law of Nations]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/law_of_nations
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