Why there has to be international law

ONLY recently, Prof. Clarita Carlos, a political scientist often consulted both by government and others on policy issues and one of UP’s glittering contributions to the firmament of academia in the Philippines, commented, almost in dismay on Facebook, a medium of which she and I are votaries, that international law is really “might is right.”

For all that, we who teach international law say about it, the realpolitik, as she called it, is the mighty always have the right of way. The puny must yield.