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    International law

    * Public international law, which governs the relationship between states and international organizations. It includes the following specific legal field such as the treaty law, law of sea, international criminal law and the international humanitarian law.
    * Private international law, or conflict of laws, which addresses the questions of (1) in which legal jurisdiction may a case be heard; and (2) the law concerning which jurisdiction(s) apply to the issues in the case.
    * Supranational law or the law of supranational organizations, which concerns at present regional agreements where the special distinguishing quality is that laws of nation states are held inapplicable when conflicting with a supranational legal system.
    * Intercivilizational law - concept developed by Ukrainian professor of International Law Alexander Merezhko meaning set of legal, political and ethical norms and principles (e.g. such principles as tolerance and mutual respect) regulating relations between different civilizations. Concept of Intercivilizational Law is viewed as alternative to theory of "clash of civilizations". From the point of view of this concept, all states belong to different civilizations and International Law ought to take into consideration interstate relations of intercivilizational nature.

    The two traditional branches of the field are:
    * jus gentium — law of nations
    * jus inter gentes — agreements among nations

    Sources of international law

    Sources of International Law are the materials and processes out of which the rules and principles regulating the international community developed. They have been influenced by a range of political and legal theories. During the 20th century, it was recognised by legal positivists that a sovereign state could limit its authority to act by consenting to an agreement according to the principle pacta sunt servanda. This consensual view of international law was reflected in the 1920 Statute of the Permane read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International+law

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