The term “international law” can refer to three distinct bodies of law:

a) Public International Law – the legal principles governing the relationships between sovereign nations, which derive mainly from international treaties and conventions (e.g. United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights).

b) Private International Law – in common law jurisdictions the rules that handle lawsuits between persons, natural or legal, that involve a “foreign legal element” where different judgments will result depending on which jurisdiction’s laws are applied.

c) The law of supranational organisations – the best example of a supranational legal framework is the European Union where sovereign nations have pooled their authority into a system of legal instruments and enforcement institutions.
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