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International law, in the form we know it today, emerged in the 17th century.
If we are seeking a date for this beginning of “modern” international law, we can select either 1625 or 1648. -
was first coined by Jeremy Bentham in 1789, and came to replace the earlier appellation of “law of nations”.
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After the Napoleonic wars, the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was intended to secure the long-term peace of Europe and establish regular meetings of European States.
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the peace negotiators included in the peace settlement of 1919 The League of Nations
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The World Court was created, but is restricted to deciding cases where both disputant States have consented to jurisdiction.
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From the early years of the 20th century, particularly since 1945, there has been an enormous extension of international law.
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Fifty States met in San Francisco for 2 months in 1945, at the end of which they signed the UN Charter, which came into force on 24 October of that year.
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the General Assembly established the International Law Commission, charged with the progressive development and codification of International Law
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the Council of Europe, for example, is the organisation responsible for the sophisticated European Convention on Human Rights of 1950.
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In the last 60 years, the law has developed almost exclusively through multilateral treaties and through what has often been called “soft law”: