In fifteen pages this paper examines the U.N. Charter's challenges of meeting the demands posed by the world of the twenty first century. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography.
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This paper is a detailed examination of the reason we must have such laws in place as the United Nations Charter. As this paper will show, the U. N.
Charter as well as other international laws have served the United States extremely well in the past. Though they might not be perfect and might not always be pertinent
to the case at hand, it is very appropriate that the U. N. Charter be relied upon as the best that we have in these troubled times. As we can
see, a perfect example is that very early on the Alien Tort Statute was a valuable decision indeed. It was first seen as invaluable when in 1794 a French
fleet landed at the British colony of Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone, located on the African coast, was in fact a destination for the slave trade. This particular fleet
was led by an "American slave trader who had a grudge against the colony" (DAmato, 1988, PG). According to history, for two weeks the French "ransacked and plundered
it" (DAmato, 1988, PG). The United States was contacted by the British ambassador who argued about the way the American slaver and other American citizens acted so savagely
at the time. The thinking is that if the United States tried to make amends to Great Britain and pay for damages that France would have been greatly angered
and could have possibly taken it out on the United States in a military way. But then on the other side of the coin, if the United States just
sat back and did nothing then Great Britain would have taken this as a slap in the face and a grossly negligent failure to see that justice was served.