The Future of International Law

Complete and Unabridged. An excerpt from the beginning of the INTRODUCTION. 1. He who would portray the future of international law must first of all be exact in his attitude towards its past and present. International law as the law of the international community of states, such as is the present-day conception of it, is of comparatively modern origin. Science dutifully traces it back to Hugo Grotius as its father. In his immortal work on the "Law of War and of Peace" he, with masterly tou...