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Providing a constitution for public international law, the [[United Nations]] was conceived during World War II. '''International law''' can refer to three things. These are,

* '''public international law'''
* '''private international law''' or '''conflict of laws'''
* the '''law of supranational organizations'''.

In a globalising economy, law is globalising too. Law internationally, or to be literal, law between nations plays an increasingly important part in our lives. The goods we buy, the services we consume, the work that we do is ever more integrated with people far across the planet. So to create a level playing field, law has a vital role to play.

==Public international law==

Public international law (or international public law) concerns the relationships between sovereign nations. It is developed mainly through multilateral conventions. Its modern corpus started to be developed in the middle of the 19th Century. Between the two World Wars, the League of Nations and other international organizations such as the [[International Labour Organisation]] contributed to accelerate this process and established much of the foundation of international public law. After the failure of the [[Versailles Treaty]] and [[World War II]], the [[League of Nations]] was replaced by the [[United Nations]], founded under the [[UN Charter]]. The UN has developed new standards, such as the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. Other international norms and laws have been established through international agreements; e.g. the [[Geneva Conventions]] on the conduct of [[war|war or armed conflict]], as well as by other international organizations such as the [[International Labour Organisation|ILO]], the [[World Health Organisation]], the [[World Intellectual Property Organisation]], the [[International Telecommunication Union]], [[UNESCO]], the [[World Trade Organisation]], and the [[International Monetary Fund]].

==Conflict of laws==

Conflict of laws, or "private international law" in civil law jurisdictions, is less international than national law. It concerns which jurisdiction a legal dispute between private parties should be heard. Today businesses are increasingly capable of shifting capital and labour supply chains across borders, as well as trading with overseas businesses. This increases the number of disputes outside a unified legal framework and the enforceability of standard practices. Increasing numbers of businesses use commercial arbitration under the [[Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards|''New York Convention 1958'']].

==Supranational law==

The [[European Union]] is the first and only example ([[South American Community of Nations|so far]]) of a supra-national legal framework, where sovereign nations have pooled their authority through a system of [[European Court of Justice|courts]] and [[European Parliament|political institutions]]. It constitutes a new legal order in international law[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=en&numdoc=61962J0026for] <ref>C-26/62 ''Van Gend en Loos v. Nederlanse Administratie Der Belastingen''</ref> for the mutual social and economic benefit of the member states.

==Legal Databases==
*[http://en.jurispedia.org/index.php/Main_Page Jurispedia] — "The shared law"
*[http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Main_Page Wex] — "collaboratively built, freely available legal dictionary and encyclopedia"
*[http://wiki-law.org/mwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Wiki-Law] — "The Legal Resource Anyone Can Edit"
*[http://www.wikilaw.org/index.php?title=Main_Page WikiLaw] — "the free law library that anyone can edit"

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-Conflict of laws, or "private international law" in civil law jurisdictions, is less international than national law. It concerns which jurisdiction a legal dispute between private parties should be heard. Today businesses are increasingly capable of shifting capital and labour supply chains across borders, as well as trading with overseas businesses. This increases the number of disputes outside a unified legal framework and the enforceability of standard practices. Increasing numbers of businesses use commercial arbitration under the [[Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards|''New York Convention 1958'']].
+Conflict of laws, or "private international law" in civil law jurisdictions, is less international than national law. It concerns which jurisdiction a legal dispute between private parties should be heard. Today businesses are increasingly capable of shifting capital and labour supply chains across borders, as well as trading with overseas businesses. This increases the number of disputes outside a unified legal framework and the enforceability of standard practices. Increasing numbers of businesses use commercial [[arbitration]] under the [[Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards|''New York Convention 1958'']].
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-The [[European Union]] is the first and only example ([[South American Community of Nations|so far]]) of a supra-national legal framework, where sovereign nations have pooled their authority through a system of [[European Court of Justice|courts]] and [[European Parliament|political institutions]]. It constitutes a new legal order in international law[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=en&numdoc=61962J0026for] <ref>C-26/62 ''Van Gend en Loos v. Nederlanse Administratie Der Belastingen''</ref> for the mutual social and economic benefit of the member states.
+Other than Noahide Law, the [[European Union]] is the only example of a currently recognized supra-national legal framework, where sovereign nations have pooled their authority through a system of [[European Court of Justice|courts]] and [[European Parliament|political institutions]]. It constitutes a new legal order in international law[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=en&numdoc=61962J0026for] <ref>C-26/62 ''Van Gend en Loos v. Nederlanse Administratie Der Belastingen''</ref> for the mutual social and economic benefit of the member states.
 ==Legal Databases==