Recueil des Cours (Collected Courses), 1997

"Karl Zemanek proposes to focus his general course on public international law on the role that the fundamental rules of public international law play in the functioning of the international system, those rules that constitute the legal foundation of public international law. Since these rules are the foundations of a political system, they must be viewed in their political context. This approach makes it necessary to address the relation between international law and international politics. To this purpose, the author examines the organization of the international system (structure and legal organization of the international system, States, international organizations, the changing focus of international law), the law-making processes of the international system (sources, universal acceptance, custom and general principles, multilateral conventions as substitute legislation, law-making processes not mentioned in Article 38, inter-source relationships), and law-enforcement (remedies in primary law, State responsibilities, settlement procedures, collective enforcement and individual enforcement)"--Publisher's description.