International law doctrines in the inter-war period

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380073
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: International law
• Research Institution: Kansai University
• Principal Investigator: Nishi Taira 関西大学, 法学部, 教授 (60323656)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 国際法 / 国際政治思想史 / 法思想史 / モーゲンソー / 紛争の平和的解決

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Doctrines of International law in the era of the League of Nations have been generally understood as legalism, which considered legal norms as panacea to legal problems and tried to settle all kinds of international disputes through application of international law. According to this understanding, the international politics was born as a denial of the international law doctrine. But in fact, one of the most influential tendencies of international law in the inter-war period focused its attention on the limits of legal norms in international order. It did not consider the application of law as panacea to international problem, but stressed the necessity to make the dynamic system where international disputes would be settled through change of legal norms. In this tendency of international law theory, the thought of international politics was formed.

Free Research Field

国際法