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3 FAREWELL TO INTERNATIONAL LAW By R. K. P. SARUP m. a., II. m., j. d., ph. d., Barrister-at-Law, Conseil Juridique ' I J. E. D. was a delightful book of adolescent love in Danish. Jeg elsker dig, je t'aime, but the letters also stood for jer er dum, je suis stupide. How does one bid adieu to international law: good-bye, dear i. I., or idiotic love. For hopeful love it certainly was, but it never matured. Could it ever mature into something sublime and abiding with the accursed heritage of ancestral moral insanity and parental anarchical dominance in self-contained unique summa potestas? Law indeed among the sovereign equal states, jealous of their independence, wary to exercise even the minimal 'autolimita- tion' for the universal orderliness of the international community. What world community, it was said, in the chaos of the national state system, all equal and sovereign, attached to nothing but power and majesty, and zealous to interpret independently whatever inter- national law had been squeezed into being by the rigours of events and inexorable necessities of international relations? But men craved for a universal order and peace - and order and peace assume law - through
Nordic Journal of International Law – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1966
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