Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

international legislation

Int'l law. 1. Lawmaking among countries or intergovernmental organizations, displaying structural and procedural characteristics that are the same as national legislation. 2. The product of any concerted effort to change international law by statute. 3. The process of trying to change international law by statute. 4. Loosely, the making of customary international law by a majority with the effect that a dissenter either is bound by the revised text or ceases to be a party to it. 5. Loosely, the adoption by international bodies of binding decisions, other than judicial and arbitral decisions, concerning specific situations or disputes.