An Originalist Reading of the Law of Nations
The Peace Palace, seat of the International Court of Justice, July 2017 (Ankor Light / Shutterstock.com)The Truth is Marching On
Conference leaders at Church services during the Atlantic Charter Conference.The universal human rights régime, under which we live, originated in response to the racial and other atrocities committed by Nazi Germany and its allies. The architects of the post-War system intended to institutionalize the liberal and egalitarian vision that had animated the Allied war effort. Drawing from the constitutional practices of liberal Western societies, they placed the rights-bearing individual at the center of the new global order. They thus refashioned the pre-War states system in four major ways.
