Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Hague Academy of International Law
(hayg). A center for advanced studies in international law, both public and private, aimed at facilitating the comprehensive and impartial examination of problems of international legal relations. ( It was founded in 1923 on the initiative of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Institut de Droit International. - Also termed Academie de Droit International de La Haye.
International Law Commission
A body crated in 1948 by the United Nations for the purpose of codifying international law. ( Ti-it Commission is composed of experts in international law. It sits at the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva, though its annual meetings are sometimes held elsewhere.
crime against international law
See c T1mlE AGAINST THE LAW OF NATIONS.
customary international law
International law that derives from customary law and serves to supplement codified norms.
international law
The legal principles governing the relationships between nations; more modernly, the law of international relations, embracing not only nations but also such participants as international organizations, multinational corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and even individuals (such as those who invoke their human rights or commit war crimes). - Also termed public international law; law of nations; law of nature and nations; jus gentium; jus gentium publicum; jus inter gentes; foreign-relations law; interstate law; law between states (the word state, in the latter two phrases, being equivalent to nation or country). Cf. TRANSNATIONAL LAW.
international law.
Yet even where supranational entities, notably the European Communities, exercise international control over the conduct of individuals and corporate bodies, generally the supervision is destined to verify or secure conformity of governmental measures with relevant rules of law." Hugo J. Hahn, "International Controls," in 2 Encyclopedia of Public International Law 1079-80 (1995).
private international law
International conflict of laws. ( Legal scholars frequently lament the name "private international law" because it misleadingly suggests a body of law somehow parallel to public international law, when in fact it is merely a part of each legal system'F nr;vate l,aw, _._._ .Also termed international private law; jus gentium privatum. See CONFLICT OF LAWS (2)."'International Private law,' 'Internationales Privatrecht,' though a dangerously ambiguous term, is not incapable of being understood to denote the mode in which rules of private law are borrowed by the Courts of one State from those of another." Thomas E. Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence 422 (13th ed. 1924).
public international law
See INTERNATION.?J, LAW.