Public International Law is a system of law
Public International Law is a system of law, different from domestic law.
Why is this system unique? Usually law regulates relations between people, people and the state etc,
PIL regulates relations between states. Thats why PIL is important for international relation
students.
PIL influences the life of everybody, it doesn't regulate people directly but indirectly (through
the decisions of the states), because it's everywhere. It's like air. E.g. when you want to send a
letter to Brazil, you put a stamp from your own country and send it from your post office and the
letter gets delivered. Why is this so easy, because there are certain international conventions that
regulate postal services. E.g. traffic signs are almost the same everywhere, why? Because of
certain int conventions that require the states to have more or less unified traffic signs.
States apply international regulations to national regulations and they ...
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