The Martens clause: Origin of a new source of International law?

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, grade: 1,3, University of Bremen, language: English, abstract: Humanitarian law seems to become a more and more important topic in international law because of events like the war in Iraq and the increasing problems and differences between radical Islamic people and western states. There seems to be a change of attitudes as large parts of our society increasingly show that they are against wars...