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what is the purpose of public international law if there are no effective enforcement mechanisms to apply it? Maria Kyriacou


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Benjamin Fahrer: Public and international law. Effective enforcement mechanisms. What is the purpose of public and international law? The purpose will might be of ideas for the global community to come together, to come together in a forum, to come up with the ideas, to set some laws. But if there is no effective enforcement mechanisms to apply it, there is no way for these ideas to be turned into an action or refined, this pool of ideas that has a vision. If there’s no way to refine that vision into a conceptual format to come up with ways of implementation, timelines of implementations of phases, then it is like an eddy in the river. It’s moving but going nowhere. There needs to be a stone or something to dislodge this eddy, or an involvement of the people to come in to change the course, so that this eddy and the power that its built can spiral out into the world. And then all this energy and activity can then be dispersed and flow down the river.