Personality in International Law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3352332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hans Aufricht (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1943 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-243 |
| Publication date | 1943-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1949384 |
| OpenAlex | W2000477019 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
The overwhelming majority of writers on international law seem still inclined to advocate that states only be recognized as legal persons in international law. Since, however, neither the term "state" nor the term "legal personality" is unequivocal, it may well be questioned whether a conclusion reached by means of a mere combination of these terms is adequate to clarify the pertinent problems.Through constant repetition, the unqualified designation of the state as the only legal person in international law became seemingly self-evident. Yet it should not be overlooked that the concept of the state is much older than the description of the state in terms of legal personality, since the latter terminology does not appear before the middle of the seventeenth century. There seems to be general agreement that Thomas Hobbes originated the usage of speaking of the "state" as a "person," when he proposed to define a "body politic" as "a multitude of men,united as one personby a common power
International law · Multitude · Personality · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Terminology · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1943 - 2018 (76) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |