If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law.
Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.
It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.
I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might - which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International...
There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.
President Obama has created the image of an America under President Bush that routinely violated international law.
The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.
The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.
I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.
It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
Thus there is a need for analogical process of deduction of laws and rules in the decision making process by the UN at this juncture, where the world is facing innumerable human rights violation (reported and unreported) pretermitting antithetical im...
I do not understand what I do....It is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me...For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do - this I keep on doing...I find this law at work: when I want to do good, e...
George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.
The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law...
It must be instilled in man that ‘peace’ is the best legacy we would leave behind for the generations to come, as we practice and follow the edicts of human rights.
However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
