Butkevych O. Theory and Practice of Preclassical International Law

The present dissertation is the first complex and system analysis of the history of preclassical international law (due to The Treaty of Westphalia 1648). Thesis analyses the aspects of formation of the first international-legal norms and their complexes, the influence of the peculiarities of international relations in the late antiquity to the formation of international law of the new middle-age type, the formation of the international treaty as the general source of international law in the Middle Ages, and the mechanism of transformation from regional to universal international law, the continuity between middle-ages and classical international law. Preclassical international-legal views are studied, as well as their division to the proper trends (secular, Christian-catholic, Islamic, views of non-European regions). The influence of antic roman jurists to the European international legal thought is discovered, the peculiarities of the formation of the international-legal views of non-European peoples and formation of the first national schools of international law are analyzed.