Week 1: Intro Flashcards
1
Q
What is legal personality?
A
You can have rights and obligations.
2
Q
How can natural persons be legal persons?
A
If the law dictates so
3
Q
Who has legal personality at international level?
A
Head of state, representing an international organisation… to be a fully fledge legal person you need to be a state.
4
Q
Who can make law?
A
States, sometimes allow popular votes like Switzerland.
5
Q
How does the world work?
A
Full of legal persons with many partial legal personalities in it, allowed by states
6
Q
What was set out by the Monte Video convention?
A
What it takes to be a state
- Permanent population
- A government
- A defined territory - large part much be uncontested
- The capacity to enter relations with states
