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Article 38(1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice is generally recognized as a definitive statement of the sources of international law. [2] It requires the Court to apply, among other things, (a) international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states; (b) international custom, as evidence of a general ...
There is a distinction between public and private international law; the latter is concerned with whether national courts can claim jurisdiction over cases with a foreign element and the application of foreign judgments in domestic law, whereas public international law covers rules with an international origin. [6]
The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is an online encyclopedia dealing with international law.It was published under the auspices of Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law until his successor Anne Peters became general editor in 2021. [1]
Public international law can be formed by international organisations, such as the United Nations (which was established after the failure of the League of Nations to prevent World War II), [i] the International Labour Organisation, the World Trade Organisation (WTO), or the International Monetary Fund. Public international law has a special ...
List of international public law topics: This is a comprehensive list of pages dealing with public international law, i.e. those areas of law dealing with the United Nations System and the Law of Nations. It is being started as a sublist as it is a specialized area of law that often does not interact with general legal topics.
Many early international legal theorists were concerned with axiomatic truths thought to be reposed in natural law.Sixteenth century natural law writer, Francisco de Vitoria, a professor of theology at the University of Salamanca, examined the questions of the just war, the Spanish authority in the Americas, and the rights of the Native American people.
The translations had a large influence on the approval of modern international law in Asia. [7] Wheaton's was the first book to introduce international law to East Asia in full scale. [ 9 ] In listing Henry Wheaton among "prominent jurists of the nineteenth century," Antony Anghie comments on the "several editions" of Elements of International ...
International Incidents (Cambridge University Press 1909); second edition, 1911) The Future of International Law (in German, 1912; English, by Bate, 1914) Lassa Oppenheim, Ronald Roxburgh, et al., International Law: A Treatise (two volumes, 1918) The Panama Canal Conflict (Cambridge University Press 1913)