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* ''[[Whaling in the Antarctic case]]'' (2014) - Ruled on Japan's whaling activities in relation to international conventions.
* ''[[Whaling in the Antarctic case]]'' (2014) - Ruled on Japan's whaling activities in relation to international conventions.
* ''[[South China Sea Arbitration]]'' (2016) - Clarified maritime entitlements and sovereign rights under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
* ''[[South China Sea Arbitration]]'' (2016) - Clarified maritime entitlements and sovereign rights under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
==History==
Human beings have organized themselves into polities for thousands of years; as individuals developed norms for interaction with one another, so, too, did polities develop norms to regulate their own interactions. The modern form of international law did not begin until the [[Peace of Westphalia]] established the sovereign state and the realist international paradigm. It evolved with the succession of great powers, but in the early twentieth century underwent a revolution: The liberal school of international relations began to view certain non-state actors as international personalities and, at the same time, established international bodies to oversee the execution of international law. The modern paradigm is still primarily state-based, but the forces of globalization may continue to erode the prominence of the state.
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