Abstract

This chapter introduces the reader to the basic vocabulary of international law, including its essential purposes, primary sources, and lawmakers, along with its relationship with national legal systems. The three primary sources of international law are treaties, customary norms, and general principles of law, according to the United Nations's Statute of the International Court of Justice. The chapter also considers jus cogens and UN Security Council resolutions as binding international law, along with domestic law metaphors for international law. Finally, it provides an overview of the four specialized areas of international law that are most inherently responsive to the phenomenon of armed conflict: international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law, and international refugee law.

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