source of international law
C1800
concept
A source of international law is any recognized method or process—such as treaties, customary practice, general principles, judicial decisions, and scholarly writings—through which binding legal rules governing relations between states and other international actors are created or identified.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| source of international law canonical | 8 |
| doctrine of international law | 1 |
| principles of international law | 1 |
| progressive development of international law | 1 |
| rule of international law | 1 |
| secondary source of law | 1 |
| source of international criminal law | 1 |
| source of international law principles | 1 |
| source of international postal law | 1 |
| source of obligations under the United Nations Charter | 1 |
| sources of international law theory | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: source of international law
Generated description
A source of international law is any recognized method or process—such as treaties, customary practice, general principles, judicial decisions, and scholarly writings—through which binding legal rules governing relations between states and other international actors are created or identified.