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In this year, Hugo Groot, better known as Grotius, published his book "De Jure Belli ac Pacis", in which he interpreted and systemized international law adding rules and costumes. As a consequence, he is considered for many to be the father of International Law. -
After over 30 years of fighting, the war was ceased and the Peace of Westphalia was negotiated resulting on the recognition of the sovereignty of States. -
Immanuel Kant, among other outstanding philosophers of the century focused on the positive theories, displacing natural law. -
The Congress of Vienna was held with the intention to secure a healthy relation between European power States. Also this agreement permitted the development of both, multilateral conventions, and the creation of international organizations. These two resulted in the construction of the Suez Canal, the division of the Danube and the Rhine, among other important events. -
During the 20th Century a lot of Conventions where held resulting in alliances, international cooperation, permanent international organizations, the agreement of international standards, etc. -
After WWI, power States negotiated peace treaties and the League of Nations was established as the first global organization with wide competence. The League failed due to undeveloped security actions. Nonetheless, it was a very important precedent for the United Nations, as well as for international law and human rights which resulted in the abolition of slavery, the regulation of opium, regulation of international waterways, and many more. -
It was then replaced by the International Court of Justice with the creation of the UN. -
The United Nations was created and originally had 51 member States, however, it now has 193. The creation of the UN began the massive expansion of International Law. After years, human rights were prioritized and concerned all over the world. -
The 5 most powerful countries at the time met in San Francisco and signed the UN Charter, giving birth to the United Nations, with the purpose to maintain international peace and security, working with several committees as the General Assembly and the Security Council as a response to the mistakes made by the League of Nations which made it fail. It also had 16 Specialized Agencies and over 300 intergovernmental organizations. -
The General Assembly created the commission with the intention of following up the development of international law and monitoring multilateral treaties. It creates soft-law which consists in the following: non-binding declarations, guidelines, and norm standards. -
The Council of Europe is in charge of monitoring its compliance. -
It took a lot of time to negotiate as each State's interests played an important role. Nonetheless, at the end the multilateral treatment was signed as there was a need to agree on maritime law. -
The NATO decided deliberately to attack Serb as consequence of the humanitarian crisis taking place in Kosovo -
A group of States led by the United States performed attacks against Iraq arguing this last State was not complying with the UN Security Council's resolutions.