International Law Questions and Answers High Distinction 2023

what is international law? - -law that governs all nations & all ppl -______: "IL as understood among ______ may be defined as consisting in those rules of conduct which reason deduces as consonant to justice from the nature of the society existing among independent nations" - -James Madison: civilized nations -IL is applying - -reason to questions of justice -IL simple rule- just as all people should... - -be free, equal, independent before the law, so should all states be free, equal, independent before the law -Etiamsi daremus - -even if we were to concede -Hugo Grotius - -(17th century) beginning of modern IL - wrote book about war & peace -"everything in book would be true even if we were to concede there is no God (b/c human beings have reason) -etiamsi daremus