International Law for Humankind ─ Towards a New Jus Gentium

Trindade (currently a judge of the International Court of Justice) developed this text from the prestigious General Course on Public International Law that he delivered at The Hague Academy of International Law in 2005. The intention of his text is to provide an over-all vision of the present state and perspectives of international law based on a selection of topics governed by the idea that the purely interstate dimension of international law has been surpassed and that the conditions are now such that it is possible to move towards a new jus gentium, wherein international law takes into account the social needs and aspirations of humankind as a whole. This account of international law moves through eight main areas: the evolution towards a new jus gentium and the temporal dimension in international law; foundations of international law; contemporary international law-making, including formal and material sources of international law; states, international organizations, and the human person as subjects of international law; conceptual constructions of international law for humankind; basic considerations of humanity in the corpus juris of international law; the construction of the international rule of law and the quest for international compulsory jurisdiction; and the legacy the United Nation World Conferences in the codification and progressive development linked to the universalization of international law in the evolution towards the new jus gentium. Martinus Nijhoff is an imprint of Brill. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)