Int. Law: Terms and Definitions

International Law

A series of treaties and agreements between nations that regulate how nations deal with other nations, residents of other nations, corporations of other nations and customary rules. 

Private International Law

Controversies between private entities i.e. like people or corporations.

Public International Law

Concerns relations between nations.

Jus gentium

Law of nations

Natural law

Inherent law and moral principles derived from nature, discoverable through reason.

Positivism

a system of philosophy based on things that can be seen or proved, rather than on ideas.

3 Systematic Levels of International Law

1. International Constitutional Law

2. International Public Law

3. The laws of the nations

Custom

A traditional practice or usual way of doing something followed by a social group or people.

Treaty/Treaties

Express agreements, sort of substituting legislature, binding the signing parties.

Non-derogable right

is one whose infringement is not justified under any circumstances, generally right to life and freedom from torture, inhuman, or degrading treatment. 

Common Law

(in some countries) the part of the law that has been developed from customs and from decisions made by judges, not created by Parliament 

Case Law

law based on decisions made by judges in earlier cases. 

Statute Law

all the written laws of a parliament, etc. as a group 

Domicile

a connecting element that binds an individual to a certain legal framework

Contiguous

sharing an edge or a boundary; touching.

Archipelagos

a sea containing a large group of islands.

The fundamental principle governing the law of the sea is that…

the land dominates the sea.

The Geneva Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone of what year?

1958.

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in what year?

1982