James Brown Scott,
Director of the Division of International Law.
Washington, D.C.
February 28, 1921.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
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- [1. International law in the past] 1
- [2. No international law in antiquity] 1
- [3. How the conception of a family of nations arose] 2
- [4. The law of nature as the basis of the law of nations] 2
- [5. Positive international law] 4
- [6. International legislation initiated by the Congress of Vienna] 4
- [7. International Administrative Union] 5
- [8. Legislation of the Peace Conferences and of the Naval Conference of London] 5
- [9. The Permanent Court of Arbitration and other international courts] 6
- [10. The Hague Peace Conferences as a permanent institution] 6
- [11. Uncertainty as to the fate of the Declaration of London and of some of the Hague Conventions] 7
- [12. The task of the future] 7
CHAPTER I
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE SOCIETY OF STATES
- [13. Is the law of nations an anarchic law?] 9
- [14. All law is order] 9
- [15. The family of nations is a society ruled by law although it does not as yet possess special organs] 10
- [16. Not necessary that the family of nations should remain an unorganized society] 11
- [17. The pacificist ideal of an organization of the family of nations] 11
- [18. The world-state is not desirable] 12
- [19. The world-state would not exclude war] 13
- [20. War may gradually disappear without a world-state] 14
- [21. Importance of pacificism] 15
- [22. Impossible for the family of nations to organize itself on the model of the state] 16
- [23. Impossible to draft a plan for the complete organization of the family of nations] 16
- [24. The Permanent Court of Arbitration the nucleus of the future organization of the family of nations] 17
- [25. The Hague Peace Conferences as organs of the family of nations] 17
- [26. Outlines of a constitution of the family of nations] 18
- [27. The proposed constitution leaves state-sovereignty intact] 20
- [28. The equality of states] 20
- [29. Absence of any executive power] 21