"International law is the set of guidelines, norms, and standards usually forming the default behavior between states."
The investigation of the legal framework and jurisdictional issues that arise when legal disputes or regulations occur across national borders, as well as the construction and impact of international legal norms and treaties.
Definition of Transnational Law: This topic is essential for understanding the basic concepts of transnational law, including its definition, scope, and application.
The Source of Transnational Law: This topic deals with the origins of transnational law, including its evolution from international law and the role of non-state actors in the development of transnational legal norms.
The Relationship Between National and Transnational Law: This topic explores the relationship between national and transnational law, including the potential conflicts between these legal systems and the ways in which they interact.
Transnational Regulation: This topic covers the growing trend towards transnational regulation, including the role of international institutions, such as the World Trade Organization, in shaping global regulation.
Human Rights and Transnational Law: This topic examines the role of transnational law in protecting human rights, including the development of international human rights law and the use of transnational legal mechanisms to enforce these rights.
Transnational Dispute Resolution: This topic deals with the various mechanisms for resolving transnational disputes, including the role of international courts and tribunals, arbitration, and mediation.
Comparative Law: This topic involves the study of the similarities and differences between legal systems in different jurisdictions and how these differences can affect transnational legal relationships.
Private International Law: This topic covers the rules and principles governing cross-border legal disputes in civil and commercial matters, including the role of choice of law and jurisdiction clauses, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.
Intellectual Property and Transnational Law: This topic explores the international framework for protecting intellectual property rights, including the role of the World Intellectual Property Organization and the use of transnational legal mechanisms to enforce these rights.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Transnational Law: This topic focuses on the relationship between corporations and transnational law, including the development of corporate social responsibility as a means of ensuring transnational corporations act responsibly in their global operations.
"It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for states across a broad range of domains, including war and diplomacy, economic relations, and human rights."
"It differs from state-based domestic legal systems in being primarily, though not exclusively, applicable to states, rather than to individuals, and operates largely through consent since there is no universally accepted authority to enforce it upon sovereign states."
"States may choose to not abide by international law, and even to breach a treaty, but such violations, particularly of peremptory norms, can be met with disapproval by others and in some cases coercive action ranging from diplomatic and economic sanctions to war."
"With origins tracing back to antiquity, states have a long history of negotiating interstate agreements. An initial framework was conceptualized by the Ancient Romans and this idea of ius gentium has been used by various academics to establish the modern concept of international law."
"The sources of international law include international custom (general state practice accepted as law), treaties, and general principles of law recognized by most national legal systems."
"Although international law may also be reflected in international comity—the practices adopted by states to maintain good relations and mutual recognition—such traditions are not legally binding."
"The relationship and interaction between a national legal system and international law is complex and variable. National law may become international law when treaties permit national jurisdiction to supranational tribunals such as the European Court of Human Rights or the International Criminal Court."
"Treaties such as the Geneva Conventions require national law to conform to treaty provisions."
"National laws or constitutions may also provide for the implementation or integration of international legal obligations into domestic law."
"Inter means between thus outside of territories thus absent of sovereignty, thus isn't a law at all (See: Westphalian System) and is rather a common-practice between states - unless they wish otherwise due to their own reasoning."
"States may choose to not abide by international law because it is non-territorial thus unsovereign."
"It operates largely through consent since there is no universally accepted authority to enforce it upon sovereign states."
"Violations of international law, particularly of peremptory norms, can be met with disapproval by others and in some cases coercive action ranging from diplomatic and economic sanctions to war."
"It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for states across a broad range of domains, including war and diplomacy, economic relations, and human rights."
"It differs from state-based domestic legal systems in being primarily, though not exclusively, applicable to states, rather than to individuals."
"It operates largely through consent since there is no universally accepted authority to enforce it upon sovereign states."
"With origins tracing back to antiquity, states have a long history of negotiating interstate agreements."
"An initial framework was conceptualized by the Ancient Romans and this idea of ius gentium has been used by various academics to establish the modern concept of international law."
"Although international law may also be reflected in international comity—the practices adopted by states to maintain good relations and mutual recognition—such traditions are not legally binding."