ternational
courts 6
10. The Hague Peace Conferences as a permanent institution 6
11. Uncertainty as to the fate of the Declaration of London
and of some of the Hague Conventions 7
12. The task of the future 7

CHAPTER I

THE ORGANIZATION OF THE SOCIETY OF STATES

13. Is the law of nations an anarchic law? 9
14. All law is order 9
15. The family of nations is a society ruled by law although
it does not as yet possess special organs 10
16. Not necessary that the family of nations should remain
an unorganized society 11
17. The pacificist ideal of an organization of the family of
nations 11
18. The world-state is not desirable 12
19. The world-state would not exclude war 13
20. War may gradually disappear without a world-state 14
21. Importance of pacificism 15
22. Impossible for the family of nations to organize itself
on the model of the state 16
23. Impossible to draft a plan for the complete organization
of the family of nations 16
24. The Permanent Court of Arbitration the nucleus of the
future organization of the family of nations 17
25. The Hague Peace Conferences as organs of the family of
nations 17
26. Outlines of a constitution of the family of nations 18
27. The proposed constitution leaves state-sovereignty intact 20
28. The equality of states 20
29. Absence of any executive power 21

CHAPTER II

INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION

30. Quasi-legislation within the domain of international law 23
31. Hague Peace Conferences as an organ for international
legislation 24
32. Difficulties in the way of international legislation. The
language question 25
33. The opp