Jus inter gentes is the body of
treatiesA treaty is an agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely sovereign states and international organizations. A treaty may also be known as: agreement, protocol, covenant, convention, exchange of letters, etc...
, U.N. conventions, and other international agreements. Originally a
Roman lawThe term Roman law denotes the legal system of ancient Rome, and the legal developments which occurred before the seventh century AD — when the Roman–Byzantine state adopted Greek as the official lingua franca. The development of Roman law comprises more than a thousand years of jurisprudence —...
concept, it later became a major part of
International lawPublic international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states, analogous entities, such as the Holy See, and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...
. The other major part is
jus gentiumJus gentium, Latin for "law of nations", was originally the part of Roman law that the Roman Empire applied to its dealings with foreigners, especially provincial subjects...
, the Law of Nations referred to in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 10.
Jus inter gentes, literally, means "law between the peoples".
Jon Roland, of the Constitution Society, notes that
John Foster DullesJohn Foster Dulles served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world...
pronounced the so-called Dulles Doctrine that treaties and
United NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace...
resolutions can be part of the Law of Nations for purposes of the U.S.
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Jus inter gentes is the body of
treatiesA treaty is an agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely sovereign states and international organizations. A treaty may also be known as: agreement, protocol, covenant, convention, exchange of letters, etc...
, U.N. conventions, and other international agreements. Originally a
Roman lawThe term Roman law denotes the legal system of ancient Rome, and the legal developments which occurred before the seventh century AD — when the Roman–Byzantine state adopted Greek as the official lingua franca. The development of Roman law comprises more than a thousand years of jurisprudence —...
concept, it later became a major part of
International lawPublic international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states, analogous entities, such as the Holy See, and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...
. The other major part is
jus gentiumJus gentium, Latin for "law of nations", was originally the part of Roman law that the Roman Empire applied to its dealings with foreigners, especially provincial subjects...
, the Law of Nations referred to in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 10.
Jus inter gentes, literally, means "law between the peoples".
Jon Roland, of the Constitution Society, notes that
John Foster DullesJohn Foster Dulles served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world...
pronounced the so-called Dulles Doctrine that treaties and
United NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace...
resolutions can be part of the Law of Nations for purposes of the U.S. Constitution.
This is
not the same as
jus gentium, argues Francisco Martin and his co-authors in "International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law" (2006), because
jus inter gentes includes internationally recognized
human rightsHuman rights refer to the "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled." Examples of rights and freedoms which have come to be commonly thought of as human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the...
.
See also
- Monograph on jus inter gentes: http://www.law.nyu.edu/kingsburyb/fall06/globalization/papers/Kingsbury,NewJusGentiumandInter-PublicI1.pdf
- Human rights violations
- International law
Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states, analogous entities, such as the Holy See, and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...
- Jus gentium
Jus gentium, Latin for "law of nations", was originally the part of Roman law that the Roman Empire applied to its dealings with foreigners, especially provincial subjects...
- Law of nations
- United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace...