International Law and International Organizations

Huig de Groot, known as Hugo Grotius, was the author of one of the first and a still influential text on international law, war and justice -- a text titled De Jure Belliac Pacis, or The Rights of War and Peace. Published in 1625, this treatise was based in large measure on principles derived from the Law of Nature and the Law of Nations. Grotius held that a civil right derives from the laws of a sovereign state, "But the law of nations is a more extensive right, deriving its authority from the consent of all, or at least of many nations (BECK Index, 2001, p.2)." Grotius established several principles for international resolution of conflicts, most of which in his era centered upon military interaction between one state and another. From the early work of Grotius through to the present day, nation-state have come together to create mechanisms for resolving international disputes through the processes of arbitration and the law.

The development of a number of treaty agreements and the creation of international organizations such as the League of Nations and its successor, the United Nations, also resulted in the development of several international courts. It is the purpose of this report to compare and contrast the structures, powers, and effects of three international legal bodies. These bodies are the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, the League of Nations Permanent Court of Internati

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Covenant ofa, 2001)." Clearly, the League of Nations believed that an international court was a necessity in resolving the kinds of disputes between nations that had caused World War I. The League viewed the Permanent Court of International Justice as a mechanism for augmenting nation-to-nation diplomacy and as part of its multifaceted approach to the quest for lasting peace (Egerton & Kyne, 1999). Those members of the League who placed their hopes for peace primarily on the growth of international law and arbitration saw their ideals given form in provisions for the Permanent Court of International Justice and the procedures and obligations spelled out for arbitral disputes. The Court was viewed as an important element in the overall strategy of the League of Nations for building a lasting peace and overseeing the maintenance of that peace. Egerton and Kyne (1999) contend that the League of Nations failed miserably in its quest for collective security in part, because an international organization in a world dedicated to the doctrine of national sovereignty was inherently limited in its ability to impose its will on individual states. With a rotating membership of jurists, the Permanent Court of International Justice
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