Legal Status of Humankind in International Law

Aleksandar Slavkov Milanov, Legal Status of Humankind in International Law (December 3, 2009). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1517623

This article investigates the international legal status of humankind. It briefly describe what is humankind and gives explanation of the bond between a human-being and humankind. The name of this bond is humanship. This new term is compared to another important bond of a human-being to the state – citizenship.

In the article is articulated the arguments for the necessity of establishing an authority of humankind and future recognition of humankind as a supranational subject of law.