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>international law is mostly just whatever the involved sovereign states agree to at the time on the specific issue in question. Thank you. I've long made the
by smutticus 13y ago
>international law is mostly just whatever the involved sovereign states agree to at the time on the specific issue in question.
Thank you. I've long made the argument that international law is arbitrary and capricious without much buy-in from those around me. It's good to hear you say it.
- dragonwriter 13y agoI'm not saying that there aren't some fairly well-settled substantive principles of international law that aren't just arbitrary and capricious, I'm just saying that you don't find any of them illustrated by the decision of where to locate the Lockerbie bombing trial. (OTOH, even where there are well-established principles of international law, the absence of consistent enforcement and application leads to them not being inviolate.)