public international law

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is one of the constituent organs of the United Nations system.  According to Article 92 of the UN Charter, all UN members are automatically state parties to the Statute of the ICJ. 

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The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations.  It is composed of representatives of all 192 members of the UN.  The UNGA has as its functions the following:  

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC, or UN Security Council) is one of the five primary organs of the United Nations, responsible for maintaining international peace and security.  The UNSC resolutions are binding on all member states.  The UNSC was established on January 17, 1946 and includes the five permanent members (United States, Russian Federation [as a state successor to the USSR], United Kingdom, China and Frace) which hold veto power, and also ten elected non-permanent members.  The UNSC's first actions in situations which may ca

The United Nations (UN) is one of the main international organizations and actors in international law.  The UN was founded in June 26, 1945 following WWII with the express purpose of guarding peace and preventing war.  The principal constitutive document of the UN is the United Nations Charter.  In its nearly 65-year history, the UN has evolved into a complex bureaucracy, with a great number of subsidiary structures and organizations.&nb

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.