The Legal Community of Mankind: A Critical Analysis of the Modern Concept of World Organization

Walter Schiffer

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The Legal Community of Mankind

A Critical Analysis of the Modern Concept of World Organization

Walter Schiffer

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1954

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Examines the historic background of the concept of world organizations such as the League of Nations and the United Nations. Also looks at the concepts which recur when the needs of some world organization is made clear.

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Frontmatter
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Preface
V
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Foreword
VII
Helene Schiffer

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Contents
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Introduction
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Part One: The Concept of Natural Law and the Growth of the Science of International Law
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1. The Unity of Western Christendom in the Late Middle Ages and Its Disappearance
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2. Grotius’ Theory of The Legal Community of Mankind Without a Central Organ
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3. Pufendorf’s Concept of Free and Equal States Coexisting in a State of Nature and Wolff’s Doctrine of a Fictitious World State
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4. The Positivist Theory of International Law As Law Created by Sovereign Civilized States
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Part Two: The Concept of the Community of Mankind, the Theory of the Natural Interests of Men, and the Belief in Progress
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5. The Doctrine of Universal Reasonable Standards of Government
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6. The Doctrine of the Natural Interests of Men
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7. The Idea of Progress and The Belief in the Power of Public Opinion
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8. The Nineteenth-Century Concept of the Undesirability of a World State
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9. The Combination of the Positivist Theory of International Law With the Progressive Concept of a Democratic Union of Free Nations
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Part Three: The League of Nations Concept
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10. The First World War and the Rise of the League of Nations
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11. The Idea of Collective Security
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12. The League As Universal Quasi Government
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13. The League As a Center of Nonpolitical Activities
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14. The Modern Theory of Universal Law and the League of Nations; Legal Monism and the Primacy of the Law of Nations
257

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Some Conclusions: United Nations and World State
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Notes
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https://doi.org/10.7312/schi93718

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The Legal Community of Mankind

Overview

About this book

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Preface

Foreword

Contents

Introduction

1. The Unity of Western Christendom in the Late Middle Ages and Its Disappearance

2. Grotius’ Theory of The Legal Community of Mankind Without a Central Organ

3. Pufendorf’s Concept of Free and Equal States Coexisting in a State of Nature and Wolff’s Doctrine of a Fictitious World State

4. The Positivist Theory of International Law As Law Created by Sovereign Civilized States

5. The Doctrine of Universal Reasonable Standards of Government

6. The Doctrine of the Natural Interests of Men

7. The Idea of Progress and The Belief in the Power of Public Opinion

8. The Nineteenth-Century Concept of the Undesirability of a World State

9. The Combination of the Positivist Theory of International Law With the Progressive Concept of a Democratic Union of Free Nations

10. The First World War and the Rise of the League of Nations

11. The Idea of Collective Security

12. The League As Universal Quasi Government

13. The League As a Center of Nonpolitical Activities

14. The Modern Theory of Universal Law and the League of Nations; Legal Monism and the Primacy of the Law of Nations

Some Conclusions: United Nations and World State

Notes

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