Legal Ch.3

Question 1

Public International Law

Answer 1

The law governing relations among governments and international organizations

Question 2

Private International Law

Answer 2

Applies to private parties (such as businesses and individuals)

Question 3

Treaty

Answer 3

An international agreement governed by international law

Question 4

Bilateral Treaties

Answer 4

A treaty between two countries

Question 5

Multilateral Treaties

Answer 5

A treaty involving three or more countries

Question 6

Convention

Answer 6

A treaty on a specific issue that affects multiple participants

Question 7

Customary International Law

Answer 7

Patterns of states’ behavior, action, crystallized into rules binding on all states unless they specifically object or enact a treaty to the contrary

Question 8

Jus Cogens

Answer 8

Compelling Law

Question 9

Comity

Answer 9

When states share common values and public policy, they defer to the laws and judicial decrees of the other

Question 10

Sovereignty

Answer 10

A state’s absolute authority to rule its people and its territory

Question 11

Sovereign Immunity

Answer 11

Sovereign immunity holds that the courts of one nation lack the jurisdiction to hear suits against foreign governments as defendants