ABSTRACT
Law is associated in our minds with justice. The blindfolded figure of Justice holding a pair of scales symbolizes the law’s intent and its impartiality, and we call a judge a justice. In this sense international law is linked to the quest for international justice, between states and between other organized groups and individuals on the international scene. The quest for institutionalized international justice also involves the attempt to give a legal status to any new and in the eyes of its advocates more just arrangement which may be realized, and to revise the rules of international law accordingly for the future. But international law must be distinguished from the quest for justice, and so must the parts which both play in the diplomatic dialogue.
