Talk:Public International Law/Nature and Purpose of International Law

Dear Sué and all authors of this part, I wonder whether in this very preliminary and introductory chapter it would also be useful to mention the very basic notions of international law as decentralized and horizontal system. Some later parts of the book might come back to this, for example my chapter on interactions between int. and domestic law. Furthermore, some fundamental boundary discussions could be mentioned here - is international law an autonomous legal body at all? Is it law at all? Where is the boundary between the legal and the political? Best, Raffaela