Nations and National Minorities as Subjects of International Law

Abstract

The paper seeks to show the questions of subjectivity of nations and national minorities in international law. These problems have been discussed from the viewpoint of the theory and the philosophy of law. From this point of view the nation is a classic subject of international law, whereas the problem lies in the national minorities. In that case subject is only the individual human being belonging to national minorities as subject of new branch of international law - of international law of human rights. Certainly rights for nations and national minorities are not collective human rights.