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International law 1908–1983

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Christine Gray
Christine Gray*
Affiliation:
St Hilda's College, Oxford
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In 1908 international law governed relations between ‘civilised states’ only. It applied exclusively to those states within the Family ofNations - 45 fully sovereign states according to the first edition of Oppenheim's International Law. These 45 included the six ‘Great Powers’, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Russia, various lesser European states, the United States of America and 20 Latin American states. In Africa ‘The Negro Republic of Liberia and the Congo Free State were the only real and full members ofthe Family of Nations’, in Asia only Japan. The position ofsuch states as Persia, Siam, China, Korea and Abyssinia was doubtful; ‘These states are certainly civilised states, and Abyssinia is even a Christian state.

Type
Research Article
Information
Legal Studies , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , November 1983 , pp. 267 - 282
Copyright
Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1983

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