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JUS GENTIUM. The law of nations. (q.v.) Although the Romans used these
words in the sense we attach to law of nations, yet among them the sense was
much more extended. Falck, Encyc. Jur. 102, n. 42.
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International Jus Jus civile Jus civitatis law Legatos violare contra jus gentium est Mechanical Jurisprudence reason Roman Law | After determining states duties under the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the 1948 Genocide Convention, the 1984 Torture Convention, the 1998 Rome Statute, general human rights conventions, and customary international law and critically examining the South African post-apartheid amnesty mechanisms, he sets out a framework that presents crimes against humanity as part of delicti jus gentium and as a jus cogens offense and thus invalidates amnesty for these crimes under international law. The image was in fact introduced in the mid-thirteenth century by Sinibaldo dei Fieschi, the future Pope Innocent IV, in his Apparatus or commentary to Gregory IX's Decretales: "Contra jus gentium fuit inventum a jure civili, ut credatur pelli animali mortui"--against the "jus gentium" the civil law has decided that we must believe in the skin of a dead animal. A briefly explores the linguistic history of the phrase "law of nations," explaining how its roots in the Roman jus gentium distinguish it from "international law. |
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