SUBJECTS OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW: AN EVOLVING PROCESS OF RECOGNITION

Abstract

This article has as its central object to deal with the process of recognition of the subjects of public international law. It is known that by its own characteristics, the state is, per excellence, ordinary subject of public international law. But from the twentieth century international organizations begin to act along with States, as a result of achieving the purpose for which the United Nations was created in 1945, in the Post-World War II. These two together form the so-called subject of public international law, since both create rights and obligations in the international order. The fact is that International Law in the broad sense, as in any other branch of law, follows the evolutionary process of society and, therefore, it may not want to restrict the scope or subjects of international law. In this context, under domestic and international literature perspective, as well as case law studies, using the deductive method of research, this article aims to assert only about the evolutionary process of recognition of subjects of public international law.