ABSTRACT
In Plato's ideal republic,2 the citizen was to have been so well trained and educated as a citizen and so imbued with the principle of duty in general that no enforcemene or system of sanction4 would be required concerning the discharge of particular duties.5 In the non-Platonic or real world, however, no such expectation can be realistically entertained. Without some type of enforcement (of some individual duties at least) - legal or otherwise - the body politic could not be sustained and maintained. 6
This chapter will examine legal and non-legal methods used to enforce the performance of individual duties, both at the national and international levels. Particular problems with the efficacious legal enforcement of individual duties will be identified with a view to ascertaining whether some of these problems may be addressed and overcome. A proposal for the flexible legal enforcement of certain positive, non-correlative duties7 will also be tendered.
