International law and national law pdf

Whether or not international law as a system of law is capable of establishing the rule of law is a difficult question to answer

Often, scholars and diplomats will vary in their understanding of what the rule of law might mean as a concept

This is a different argument to suggesting that rules or principles are indeterminate

However, consider the description of international law by Rosalyn Higgins, a former President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)

1 Higgins emphasises the purpose for having a system of international law rather than what it does functionally: International law is not rules