international law

International economic law, broadly conceived, is a field of international law that encompasses both the conduct of sovereign states in international economic relations, and the conduct of private parties involved in cross-border economic and business transactions.  This includes, among other things, international trade law, law of international financial institutions (or what is known as international financial law, and traditional [[wex:private internati

Genocide is one of the greatest crimes under international law, often called the "crime of crimes" after the Nuremburg Trials.  According to Article 2 of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately infl

International conventions are treaties or agreements between states (the primary actors in international law).  See Malcolm N.

Clausula rebus sic stantibus is a clause in international conventions (international agreements or treaties) that provides for the unenforceability of a treaty due to fundamentally changed circumstances.  The doctrine is one of the oldest norms of customary international law.  See Elihu Lauterpacht, International Law: Disputes, War and Neutrality, pts.

A self-executing treaty is a treaty that becomes judicially enforceable upon ratification.