>>25089445
start with the Romans

>international
>law
pick one.

>>25089445
3L here. Honestly don't bother. I personally found the subject interesting, but if you are even remotely historically literate, you will never be able to escape the impression that the entire discipline is a postwar academic project that just does not fit reality. That said, if you had to go with one "introduction" to the subject, go for
>Justice Among the Nations: A History of International Law - Stephen Neff
The standard textbooks used to teach international law in the English-speaking world are
>Brownlie's Principles of Public International Law
>International Law - Malcolm Evans
These books are decent at explaining the concepts, but unless you have a legal background or plan to do practice in the field, I wouldn't recommend them.

>>25089445
de civitate dei

>>25089569
America Just used International Law to legally arrest Maduro. Try Again.

>>25089839
Based and informed effortpost.
Listen to this guy OP, international law doesn't reflect the situation on the ground, Blumpf literally ordered the kidnapping of a head of state at the beginning of this year and yet he hasn't gone to trial for what is clearly a terrorist act. The rules based order is a sham, laws are arbitrarily applied on certain countries while others who break them go unpunished.

>>25089569
Law and power are two sides of the same coin. Or perhaps more precisely, law is an opinion that you can't disagree with without consequences due to it being backed by power. As long as a hegemon has the might to enforce its opinions as normative rule outside of its borders...who's to say that there can be no such thing as international law? Power is international insofar that one is able to project it, and therefore so must be law.

>>25089839
>>25089868
Thanks even though this is for a greater project