Starting from the explanation of the preconcepts of law and sovereignty, this essay analyses the symptoms of the transformation of the classic paradigm of international law, which is founded on a will - centered model introduced by the peace of Westphalia in the XVII century, whose peak can be seen in the «Lotus case» in 1927, towards a constitutional paradigm typical of public law, which acquires the shape of a cosmopolitan law whose seminal constitution can be found in the United Nations charter, the universal declaration of human rights and ius cogens.
Keywords:
law, sovereignty, constitution, international law, cosmopolitan law
Author Biography
Juan Francisco Lobo Fernández, Universidad de Chile
Alumno de quinto año de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chile.
Lobo Fernández, J. F. (2010). Goodbye Westfalia: towards the establishment of a cosmopolitan law. Estudios Internacionales, 43(167), p. 55–73. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2010.12668
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