国际商法课件.ppt

Chapter One Related terms of International Business Law
一、 International law
definition of international law: International law is the body of rules and norms that regulates activities carried on outside the legal boundaries of states.
relationships regulated by international law: (1) those between states and states; (2)those between states and persons; (3)those between persons and persons
department of international law:
(1)Public international law which deals only with public conduct between states and was called the law of nations;

(2)International economic law which deals with the macro control of economic activities internationally
(3)Private international law which is the name given to the rules that regulate the private affairs between civil subjects with equal status internationally.
A. International business law
B. Conflict law
(4)Newly developed areas of international law:
A. International criminal law
B. International human rights law
C. International environmental law
D. International administrative law
二、 The concept of international business law
International business law is the body of rules and regulations that regulates business activities carried outside the legal boundaries of states. In particular, it deals with the business rights and obligations among individuals, enterprises, anizations and states in their private position.
三、 Sources of international business law
(一)International business treaties or conventions
In international law the equivalents of legislation are treaties and conventions.
are legally binding agreements between two or more states;
(1)bilateral treaties: formal binding agreements between two states
(2)multilateral treaties: treaty between more than two states.
are legally binding agreements between states sponsored by anizations, such as the United Nations.
(二)International custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law
1. Custom is a long established tra