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Humanization is not only a new concept and value-oriented, but also an ever-increasing positive phenomena in international law. Contemporary international law has been contributing to the establishment and improvement of global peace and development order for the co-existence among States on the one hand, and making endeavors to the formation and maintenance of humanizing order, which is both “individual-oriented” and “humankind-oriented”. Such a humanizing phenomenon undoubtedly represents the advanced trend of international law, enriches its contents, updates some of its classic branches and impacts on the basic principle of reciprocity on which it is created and developed. However, the humanization of international law could not have taken shape without common accords among States by means of either treaties or customary rules; and without cooperation among States, the humanistic value of international law can never become true no matter how sublime it is.
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人本化既是应然国际法的一种新的理念和价值取向, 又越来越突出地体现于实在国际法之中。现代国际法, 一方面注重建立和完善国家间共处与合作的和平与发展秩序, 另一方面又致力于确立和维护 “以个人为本” 和 “以人类为本” 的人本秩序。国际法的人本化现象丰富了国际法的内容, 它不仅促进了一些经典的国际法部门与时뻣进, 还直接듟生了一系列国际法的新分支。同时, 它也冲击着国际法上权力与义务构建的基础—对等原则。诚然, 没有国家间的条约和各国认可的国际习惯, 不可能有国际法的人本化现象; 没有国家间的合作, 国际法的人本价值无论多么崇高, 也不能变成现实。
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Translated from Zhongguo Shehui Kexue 中国社会科学 (Social Sciences in China), 2007, (1): 89–103
Zeng Lingliang, Ph.D, is presently a dean and professor in Faculty of Law of the University of Macau, a Cheung Kong awardee and Jean Monnet Chair of European Union Law in Wuhan University, and one of the first three individuals nominated by the Chinese government on the list of panelists in the WTO. Prof. Zeng has a lot of articles published on the WTO issues, EU law and international law, and his representative monographs, for instance, European Communities and Modern International Law (Wuhan University Press, 1992) and its revised edition European Union and Modern International Law (Zhiyi Press, 1994), Law of World Trade Organization (Wuhan University Press, 1996), International Law and China in the Early 21st Century (Wuhan University Press, 2005) and Essentials of EU Law—In the new perspective of the treaty on a Constitution for Europe (Wuhan University Press, 2007).
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Zeng, L. Humanizing tendency of contemporary international law. Front. Law China 4, 1–30 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11463-009-0001-8
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Keywords
- humanizing international law
- individual right and duty
- common interests of human beings
- core value of human beings