International law, also known as public international law and the law of nations, is the set of rules, norms, legal customs and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.

国际海洋法法庭（英语：International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea，缩写为ITLOS），是根据《联合国海洋法公约》建立的一个法律组织。 始建于1996年，总部位于 德国 汉堡市 ，是专门审理海洋法案件的国际组织。

Sources of international law include treaties, international customs, general widely recognized principles of law, the decisions of national and lower courts, and scholarly writings. They are the materials and processes out of which the rules and principles regulating the international community are developed.

國際海洋法法庭（英語：International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea，縮寫為ITLOS），是根據《聯合國海洋法公約》建立的一個法律組織。 始建於1996年，總部位於 德國 漢堡市 ，是專門審理海洋法案件的國際組織。

2025年2月11日 · 国际法院（法语：Cour internationale de justice，缩写为CIJ；英语：International Court of Justice，缩写为ICJ），是联合国六大主要机构之一和最主要的司法机关，是主权国家政府间的民事司法裁判机构，根据《国际法院规约》于1946年2月成立，位于荷兰 海牙。国际法院的 ...

The history of international law examines the evolution and development of public international law in both state practice and conceptual understanding. Modern international law developed out of Renaissance Europe and is strongly entwined with the development of western political organisation at that time.

International humanitarian law (IHL), also referred to as the laws of armed conflict, is the law that regulates the conduct of war (jus in bello). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a branch of international law that seeks to limit the effects of armed conflict by protecting persons who are not participating in hostilities and by restricting and regulating the ...

2025年1月29日 · International law, the body of legal rules, norms, and standards that apply between sovereign states and other entities that are legally recognized as international actors. The term was coined by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832). Learn more about international law in this article.

International criminal law (ICL) is a body of public international law designed to prohibit certain categories of conduct commonly viewed as serious atrocities and to make perpetrators of such conduct criminally accountable for their perpetration.

International human rights law (IHRL) is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels. As a form of international law, international human rights law is primarily made up of treaties , agreements between sovereign states intended to have binding legal effect between the parties that ...