Subjecthood and alterity in international law

Sébastien Jodoin

pp. 147-161

in: Desmond Manderson (ed), Essays on Levinas and law, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Abstract

International law, being the embodiment of state practice, might, it is clear, date from the birth time of states, or from the time when one state, become aware of its own corporate existence, found itself by the necessities of international intercourse obliged to accord recognition to the same quality in other communities.2