Law 5110 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Jus Gentium, Collectivism, European Court Of Human Rights
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Public international law deals with legal issues that concern more than one state. It is the system of law that regulates the interrelationship of sovereign states and their rights and duties with regard to one another. There is also private international law, however this consist of national laws that deal with conflicts of law and establish rules for the treatment of cases that involve a foreign element. Il reflects the society to which it applies. One of the consequences of the expanding reach of il has been the gradual development of a myriad sub-disciplines, e. g. international human rights law. Another characteristic of contemporary il is that legal issues formerly dealt with exclusively within one of the sub-disciplines are increasingly scrutinized in several of them. Il remains a decentralized legal system in which it is primarily up to the legal subjects themselves to create, interpret and enforce the law.
