Definition of international law

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Definition of international law
International law is also known as international law, general or state law, and it is a set of legal rules and standards that are applied between sovereign states and other entities that are legally recognized as international actors. This term was coined by the philosopher English Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Public international law
Public international law can be applied between different countries and international organizations, and it often deals with the rights and responsibilities of states towards each other. Public international law also applies to international organizations such as the United Nations (UN) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), and it defines Rules related to issues of concern to all mankind, such as the environment, oceans, human rights, international business, etc., and various international bodies apply these rules, for example, the International Criminal Court investigates cases of those accused of committing war crimes or crimes against humanity, and the rules of international law are found in treaties Agreements, declarations, permits, customs, etc. For example, the Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement on climate change, as many countries have agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to protect the environment based on it, and many countries have signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Private international law
Private international law defines the relations between citizens of different countries. For example, if an American man and a French woman marry in France and live in Quebec, if they wish to divorce, the rules of private international law will determine whether they have to go to an American, French or Quebec court. To obtain a divorce, private international law applies to business, for example, globalization and the Internet mean that companies do more business in other countries.

Sources of international law
Both customary law and traditional law are the main sources of international law, and customary international law results when countries follow certain practices in a general and consistent manner, based on their sense of legal obligation, and customary law was codified recently in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, while traditional international law is derived from International agreements and it may take any form agreed upon by the contracting parties, and agreements related to any issue can be concluded unless the agreement conflicts with the rules of international law that includes basic standards of international behavior, or any obligations of a member state under the Charter of the United Nations, so the international agreement defines a law related to the parties to the agreement, The general principles common to national law systems are considered a secondary source of international law, as there are some cases in which traditional or customary international law cannot be applied, and in this case a general principle can be implemented as a rule of international law, because it is a general principle common to the main legal systems in world and inconvenient for international claims

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