Introduction: treaties in international relations
Robert Kolb
It has been claimed quite often that customary international law, is, unwritten rules based on practice and done in the belief their righteousness or lawfulness, is oldest source of law. In other words, law pre-existed treaties. Logical analysis may seem to suggest same temporal priority: a treaty can seemingly be adopted under only if there are some common meeting wills, binding nature compact, so on. However, historical tends show treaties between relatively independent political collectivities preceded rules. order create an ‘international society’ must have developed minimum sense commonalities constituent crystallized.
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