''Jus inter gentes'', is the body of
treaties
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, U.N. conventions, and other
international agreements
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. Originally a
Roman law
Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. 449 BC), to the '' Corpus Juris Civilis'' (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Ju ...
concept, it later became a major part of
public international law
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. The other major part is ''
jus gentium'', the
Law of Nations
International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...
. ''Jus inter gentes'', literally, means "law between the peoples".
This is ''not'' the same as ''jus gentium'', argues Francisco Martin and his co-authors in "International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law" (2006),
Treaties, Cases, and Analysis
Francisco Martin, et al. 2006 because ''jus inter gentes'' includes internationally recognized human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...
.
See also
* Human rights violations
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hum ...
* International law
International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...
* Jus gentium
* Law of nations
International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...
* United Nations
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Notes
Human rights
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Latin legal terminology
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