The Function of Public International Law

• Main Author: Vos, Jan Anne (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: The Hague, The Netherlands : T. M. C. Asser Press : Imprint: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2013.
• Subjects: Law.; Political science.; Public international law.; Public International Law.; Philosophy of Law.

This book addresses fundamental aspects of the concept of public international law in both theory and practice. The argument developed by the author is that, underlying the traditional, horizontal, structure of public international law, a vertical structure of the concept of law may be discerned. Th...