Legal Personality of Individuals in Light of International Developments: Legal Personality of Individuals in Light of International Developments

Abstract

Acquisition of legal personality by individuals is the natural position as the main gateway to accessing and protecting their freedoms and rights. This enables the individual to obtain an international status and to become a subject of international law as an inevitable result of contemporary international developments, and an optimal goal for the new global system that seeks to devote human values in both national and international dealings. Although the individual acquires the legal personality that enables him/her to become a subject of international law, he/she has the international competences only as an exception. Therefore, from a legal point of view, the individual is in a position below that of the state since a state is considered as an individual of international law. The research aimed at identifying the nature and degree of legal personality acquired by the individual.