International law is concerned with the rights and duties of states. It is necessary to have a clear idea of what a state is, for the purposes of international law. The first three criteria (a)-(c) correspond to established international practice and to the so-called doctrine of the three elements (,DreiElementen-Lehre') formulated by the German writer Georg Jellinek at the end of the nineteenth century.
International law is concerned with the rights and duties of states. It is necessary to have a clear idea of what a state is, for the purposes of international law. The first three criteria (a)-(c) correspond to established international practice and to the so-called doctrine of the three elements (,DreiElementen-Lehre') formulated by the German writer Georg Jellinek at the end of the nineteenth century.
International law is concerned with the rights and duties of states. It is necessary to have a clear idea of what a state is, for the purposes of international law. The first three criteria (a)-(c) correspond to established international practice and to the so-called doctrine of the three elements (,DreiElementen-Lehre') formulated by the German writer Georg Jellinek at the end of the nineteenth century.