public international law

noun

1. Also called public law. the law governing the legal relations between independent states or nations and, increasingly, between these and individuals.

2. conflict of laws.

Example Sentences

"Recognition alone does not deal with all these historic problems which for Palestinians are not history but the living reality to this day," said Prof Kattan, an expert in public international law at the University of Nottingham.

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It states that arrangements were being made to determine whether the return of migrants to Sri Lanka "potentially forcibly" would "be in line with public international law".

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“I looked at SRM as a response to loss and damage and SRM as a source of loss and damage, and I think we have to look at both and people are cognizant of both. But of course, it's not binary,” said Neil Craik, a professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada who studies public international law.

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“You don’t want us to enter parliament as normal citizens? You blocked us and put up walls? Well, now we’re entering as MPs,” Kaakour, who has a PhD in public international law and teaches at the Lebanese University, told Reuters.

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“This case brings to the court, for the first time, a chance to rule on whether governments should act to recognize the rights of Indigenous peoples to permanent sovereignty over their natural resources, as a principle of public international law,” said Leonardo Crippa, an attorney with the Indian Law Resource Center and one of those representing the community, in a statement.

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