The Grotian Tradition in International Law

The roots of the idea of humanitarian intervention in De Iure Belli ac Pacis by Hugo Grotius

“…On ističe da je Hugo Grocijus zaslužan za "prvi autoritativni princip humanitarne intervencije -princip da ekskluzivnost domaće jurisdikcije prestaje kada sramotno postupanje prema čovečanstvu počinje". 17 Odrediti stav Huga Grocijusa prema humanitarnoj intervenciji i suverenosti u jednoj rečenici, nije nimalo lako. Mogli bismo da kažemo da je on jasno određen prema suverenitetu kao temeljnoj vrednosti međunarodnog prava, ali ne isključuje mogućnost intervencije u određenim situacijama.…”

“…18 Sa druge strane, on ostavlja čak sedam izuzetaka, među kojima se nalazi i pravo na otpor, kada se tako nešto može učiniti kada je vladar svojom vladavinom postao "neprijatelj celog naroda". 19 Štaviše, Hugo Grocijus pruža mogućnost drugom suverenu da potlačene zaštiti, a upravo u toj mogućnosti se nalazi i najjasnija okrenutost humanitarnoj intervenciji. 20 U načinu na koji Grocijus izlaže viđenje humanitarne intervencije može se videti zašto nekim istraživačima deluje kontradiktorno.…”

The Solidarisation of International Society: The EU in the Global Climate Change Regime

“…For Hedley Bull, who first introduced the distinction between pluralism and solidarism in The Grotian Conception of International Society (1966) and in the Anarchical Society (2002,(230)(231)(232), solidarism ultimately means transferring classical features of domestic societies to the international level. With reference to Bull, but also Hugo Grotius himself whose ideas constitute a 17 th century blueprint of a solidarist conception of international society (Lauterpacht 1946), I suggest deducing the criteria discussed in the next paragraphs for solidarisation.…”

Remarks on the Normativity of International Legal Rules and Global Constitutionalism

“…They explain the legal character of an international rule by (1) basing its validity on preexisting principles, such as the Grundnorm in the Kelsenian view or Fuller's principles of the internal morality of law (formal rationality), or (2) claiming that international law can be simply inferred from natural law, from God's commands, reason, or some other attribute of human nature, and thus bases itself on particular values lying at the heart of the legal convictions shared by majority of the members of the international legal community and amounting to fundamental moral and legal principles. An example of the latter strand of argument may be the broadly defined Grotian tradition of thinking in international law (Lauterpacht ). This type of justification of the normativity of law seems to refer to a metaphysical rationality, considering as rational only those rules that are consistent with the intellectual principle being the metaphysical foundation of reality in the particular worldview (Załuski , 308).…”