Drafting History*
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2024

Abstract This chapter traces the drafting history of the UN Charter from the genesis of the United Nations at the time the collapse of the League of Nations became evident and the war triggered by the aggression of Nazi Germany widened into a world war thus raising the inevitable question of a new legal world order for the post-war era. The chapter then identifies four phases in which the constitutive instrument of the UN was conceived, negotiated, drafted, signed, and ratified. It looks at the