Chapter 1

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• International law looks upon individuals in two different ways:
• Ignores them—traditional view
• State responsibility: Liability of a state for the injuries that
it causes to foreign persons
• Law of state responsibility does not give individuals the right
to pursue their own claims or the right to protest the actions
of their own national state
• Treats them as its subjects
• Regards individuals as having basic human rights
• Kinds of claims that individuals can raise are limited

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