The States Parties to the present Convention, Considering the fundamental role of treaties in the history of international relations, Recognizing the ever-increasing importance of treaties as a source of international law and as a means of developing peaceful cooperation among nations, whatever their constitutional and social systems, Noting that the principles of free consent and...Read More

Comparative Law describes the comparison of various laws; it is not a distinct body of law. This is clearer from the term in German (Rechtsvergleichung) than from the term in other languages (comparative law, droit comparé). Macrocomparison is concerned with entire legal systems; micro-comparison deals with specific institutions or specific problems. Comparative Law thus goes...Read More

He was the intellectual successor of Jeremy Bentham Some would say he is the founder of modern legal positivism He stressed that there is a big difference between what the law is, and what the law ought to be “The law” (i.e. positive law) is different from other uses of the concept of law (e.g....Read More