... are addresses. Finally, a conclusion is drawn, based on all theories and arguments which been discussed in the paper. The term international law is descriptive and connotes a particular species of law (Harris 1997:1). A rang of approaches and debates about international law have extremely influential in shaping international law. One of the early jurists was the nineteenth-century English philosopher Austin, whose ideas on the juridical basis of law had a considerable impact on the development of legal theory (Purvis 1991:82). He reasoned that "proper law" is "positive law" and consists of "a series of commands or edicts issued by a sovereign who habitually received obedience from subjects obeying such commands" (Sam, Ryszard, and Tsamenyi 1997:5). He stated that "the sovereign as an absolute authoritative institution that was indivisible and not subject to any other entity" (Clarke 2003:9). He thus conceived of law as the positive creation or result of ...

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