Prawo międzynarodowe a sprawiedliwość
Justice and international law

Summary/Abstract: Although the notion of justice is not easy to define, the issue of international justice permeates the whole of the international law. The classical understanding of international justice is primarily linked with the relations between sovereign states. In this context the phenomenon of the development and multiplication of international courts since the 1990-sis of particular importance. The recent interest in international justice is to a large extent connected with the rise and the activities of international criminal courts, which more adequately should be termed as international criminal justice. The development of the protection of international human rights also had a considerable impact on international justice.Rawls rightly considered human rights as one of its principles. Moreover, the access to international human rights courts is regarded as an important value of international justice.While the international law may not function properly without the quality of being „just”, the development of human rights resulted in a more human dimension of international justice. Therefore, the issue of justice undoubtedly deserves greater attention both in the theory of international law and the practice of international institutions.

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