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Obstacles to a World Legal Order and Their Removal
Northrop, F. S. C.
Northrop, F. S. C.
Abstract
T HE present need for a world legal order is obvious. In an atomic age the settlement of international disputes by resort to force rather than by recourse to law is so likely, if not absolutely certain, to mean the end of civilization that it involves a risk which no wise man, if he can avoid it, will take. One may well ask why in the face of this fact, evident to all, recent attempts at a legal world order have failed to achieve their goal. Certainly the time has come when the cause of this failure must be determined and if possible removed.