Resolutions from this organ of the UN are binding upon member states, contains the P5.
What is the UN Security Council? (UNSC)
100
Law is power of the strongest, as such it is codified based on self-interest and enhancement of power.
International Organizations are NOT effective.
What is Realism?
100
Function/Def of Law: Law is necessarily incomplete, derived from social sources, no necessary link between law and morality.
Who is H.L.A. Hart?
100
Rules so fundamental that they bind even if the state has not given consent; ex=Diplomatic Immunity
What is jus cogens?
200
ICC
What is the International Criminal Court?
200
Only organ of the UN in which all member nations have equal representation, resolutions are non-binding.
What is the UN General Assembly? (UNGA)
200
Law is a form of cooperation and is found in International Institutions such as the WTO.
Law governs most of modern life.
What is (neo) liberalism?
200
Law must have a moral purpose, Be general, Be generally known, Not be retroactive, Be reasonably clear, Not be contradictory etc.
Who is Lon Fuller (1902-1978)?
200
Creating a small risk of disaster; a “slippery slope” (ex. threat of using WMDs). Practice of pushing dangerous events to the edge of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome.
What is Brinkmanship?
300
NATO
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
300
Norms agreed upon between nations; implied rights.
What is Soft Law?
300
Law is a form of mutual understanding and legitimacy, a form of reasoning and agreement.
Party's interests are socially constructed.
Logic of appropriateness.
What is Constructivism?
300
Law is interpretive where judges interpret the law in terms of communal principles.
Who is Dworkin?
300
Although democracies fight on average as frequently as other states, they tend not to fight one another.
What is Democratic Peace Theory?
400
ICJ
What is the International Court of Justice?
400
The seat of government in the Netherlands, and the capital city of the province of South Holland. The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court are also housed here.
What/where is the Hague?
400
The consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct; the ends matter.
What is Consequentalism?
400
“When men have done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think that they had better agree among themselves to have neither, hence there arise laws and mutual covenants; and that which is ordained by law is termed by them lawful and just.”
Who is Plato?
400
A type of Law that posits certain rights or values are inherent in society. i.e. The moral standards that govern human behavior are, in some sense, objectively derived from the nature of human beings and the nature of the world.
What is Natural Law?
500
MOU
What is a Memorandum of Understanding?
500
The international equivalent of good manners.
What is Comity?
500
Law emerges from and is reflective of custom, treaties, and consent of states; laws are to be understood as social rules, valid because they are enacted by authority or can be logically derived.
What is Positivism?
500
Justice is “treating equals equally and unequals unequally
according to relevant differences.”
Law=Justice
Who is Aristotle?
500
What is the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual? Individuals have consented to surrender some of their freedoms and submit to the authority of the state in exchange for protection of rights and provision of state services.