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State Sovereignty and International Law Personality

This chapter argues that the concept of sovereignty is essential to construct international law positivity and the concept of the international law person. Basically, the only international law persons are sovereign territorial decision-making units. This concept of the international law person is built upon the historical fact that, for a few generations, pretty much the entire ecumenical world has been divided among sovereign decision-making units. However, there are exceptions to this fact, and thus the possibility of international law persons that, without being states, “are not subject to the authority of any state.” Among these are cases in which the unity of territorial decision-making is still being contested; that is, the case of rebels recognized as belligerent parties.