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International Law. An interesting manifestation of the so- 
cialization of the law is the development of law in the inter- 
national field. There are international social interests even 
more paramount than national social interests. The social 
interest in peace on the high seas and between the people 
of the nations is certainly greater than the social interest in 
peace on land and between people as individuals. There are 
other paramount international social interests, like inter- 
nation commerce, freedom of the seas, disarmament, and the 
prevention of the rebarbarization of the world. Judging from 
past legal history it would seem that the way to protect such 
social interests would be to substitute law for force by the 
formation of an international government — a federation of 
nations — with jurisdiction over such international social in- 
terests ; which would first recognize the international social 
interests to be protected, and then protect them by the recogni- 
tion of international rights and duties (like disarmament and 
outlawry of war) and by some scheme of international legal 
redress, as by a world court. But it looks as tho in interna- 
tional affairs, as in national affairs, people would not follow 
the logical order but the practical order, and instead of learn- 
ing anything from the past would follow the slow method of 
the past. If that is done, the first step will be an attempt to 
regulate international vengeance and self-help (war) and 
afterwards to abolish it, but even when the world is ready 
to abolish war and substitute law therefor it probably will be- 
gin, not with international social interests, but with courts 
and legal procedure, then remedies, then rights and duties, 
and finally social interests. The regulation of war by treaties, 
the League of Nations, and the World Court indicate that 
the old legal historical order is going to be followed in inter- 
national affairs, but they also indicate that some day there 
is a possibility for the law to reign in international affairs as 
supremely as it now reigns in national. 
The social interests of the Period of Socialization are pro- 
tected for the most part by a new and reformed system of 
courts and legal procedure, but they also receive some protec- 
tion by the creation of new legal capacities and liabilities 
and an extension of the old remedies to meet the new situa- 
tions. For example, rights and privileges of property which 
were upheld in the nineteenth century will not be tolerated 
