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Identify the theories which describe the relationship between international law and domestic law and evaluate their relevance in UK law.
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Identify the theories which describe the relationship between international law and domestic law and evaluate their relevance in UK law. Every, or almost every, country in the world has their own legal system that governs the relationship between individual legal persons within the state or between individuals and the state but what of the law that governs the relationship between sovereign states? The law that governs relations between states is international law and over the years it has become increasingly prominent and is no longer exclusively concerned with the rules of warfare and diplomatic relations. Today, matters of social concern such as health, education and economics fall within the ambit of international regulation1. Given that domestic or municipal law is also concerned with such social matters, how, if at all, do international law and municipal law interact? Different theories have been established to try to explain the relationship between international and...
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