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Commonly Asked Questions about International Law

International law fosters peaceful economic and diplomatic relations among different countries. To prevent hostility among nations of the world, international law establishes guidelines across many domains, including: International trade. Human rights.
Two examples of international law are the Geneva Conventions and the Montreal Protocol. Both address different aspects of international law. The Geneva Conventions deal with humanitarian law, primarily how civilians and prisoners of war should be treated during wartime.
Both the Security Council and I.C.J. determine for themselves what sources of international law apply in individual cases. Finally, the International Criminal Court enforces certain aspects of international law, primarily human rights law, customarily and as established by the U.N.
International law encompasses many areas, including human rights, disarmament, transnational organized crime, refugees, migration, statelessness, the treatment of prisoners, the use of force, the conduct of war, the environment, sustainable development, the oceans, outer space, global communications and world trade.
Public international law concerns state-to-state relations and intergovernmental bodies, whereas private international law concerns relationships between private parties across international jurisdictions including commercial affairs and family law.
Some of the most common types of international law are treaties or otherwise formalized agreements. These are voluntary binding agreements between nations aiming to govern the rights and obligations of participating countries. However, not all international law is codified.
Also known as the law of nations. Treaties, international agreements, and intergovernmental organizations like the United Nations, are all examples of public international law. Involves laws outside the creation of a single jurisdiction.
In the United States, neither state constitutions nor the federal Constitution, nor state or federal legislation, have expressly incorporated international law; from our beginnings, how- ever, following the English tradition, courts have treated international law as incorporated and applied it as domestic law.