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

"Israel's obligations under the law of armed conflict do not cease even for those breaching the Yellow Line," said Dr Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol.

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"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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