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Contents
I. The Origins of International Law
1.    The rise to Modern States
2.    The doctrine of sovereignty
3.    The influence of the doctrine of the law of Nature
4.    The classical writers on international law
II. Character of the Modern System
1.    The international society
2.    The modern ‘sovereign’ state
3.    The basis of obligation in modern international law
4.    The sources of modern international law
       (a) Treaties as a source of law
       (b) Custom as a source of law
       (c) The general principles of law
       (d) Judicial precedents
       (e) Text-writers
       (f) The place of reason in the modern system
5.    The legal character of international law
6.    Some defects of the system
7.    Proposals for codification
8.    The application of international law in British courts
III. The Legal organization of international society
1.    The beginnings of international constitution law
2.    International legislation
3.    The executive and administrative functions
4.    The league and the United Nations
5.    The specialized agencies
IV. States
1.    General nation of states in international law
2.    Independent and dependent states
3.    The doctrine of the equality of states
4.    Types of dependent states
5.    Commencement of the existence of a state
6.    Continuity and termination of the existence of a state
7.    Continuity and termination of the existence of a state
V. The territory of states
1.    Territorial sovereignty
2.    Modes of acquiring territory
3.    Dependent territories
       (a) Colonies and colonial protectorates
       (b) Trust territories
4.    Lease
5.    Servitudes
6.    Maritime territory
7.    The continental shelf
8.    Territorial air space
VI. The jurisdiction of states
1.    Jurisdiction over internal waters
2.    Jurisdiction over the territorial sea
3.    Jurisdiction in territorial air space
4.    Jurisdiction with respect to foreign states, their property,
       their agents and their armed forces
5.    Limitation upon a state’s treatment of aliens
6.    Limits upon a state’s treatment of its own nationals
7.    The limits upon a state’s criminal jurisdiction
8.    Jurisdiction on the high seas
VII. Treaties
1.    Formation of treaties
2.    Discharge of treaties
VIII. International disputes and the maintenance of international order
1.    Amicable methods of settlement
2.    Arbitration and judicial settlement
3.    The limits of arbitration and judicial settlement
4.    Good officers, meditation, conciliation
5.    The covenant system of handling disputes
6.    The charter system of handling disputes
IX. International law and resort to force
1.    The law of the era before the league
2.    The law in force in the league period
3.    The law of the charter
Index of cases cited
Index of Subjects
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