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International Law5th Edition (2013)Carolina Academic PressProfessor Valerie EppsCopyright ? Valerie Epps, 2013All Rights ReservedCopyright ? 2013 Valerie Epps. All rights reserved. International LawCopyright ? 2013 Valerie Epps. All rights reserved. Professor … (add name, plus other course instructions).The page numbers referenced are to Valerie Epps, International Law (5th edition 2013) and Valerie Epps, Documentary Supplement to International Law (4th edition 2009).Introduction, p. 3What is International Law?Classic Divisions1) Public International Law (IL):Traditional definition of public international law: “IL concerns the legal relationship between sovereign states.” The only relevant actors were states. After WWII, the number of entities within the scope of IL began to change: the human rights field added the individual and certain groups to the actors in international law. Then multinational corporations, GOs, NGOs, non-state actors, such as paramilitary groups, and multi-national corporations all began to be assigned either obligations and/or rights under IL. The subject matter covered by IL also expanded dramatically.Copyright ? 2013 Valerie Epps. All rights reserved. Classic Divisions continued2) Private International Law: basically concerns the legal relationships occurring in international business transactions and the legal regimes that govern them, e.g., WTO (World Trade Organization), TRIPS (Trade Related Intellectual Property), intellectual property treaty rights, international trade, transnational commercial contracts, transnational taxation etc. Some people argue that we should not separate the two sides of IL but teach them as a whole…but...we only have so much time, so this course focuses on public IL. Much of what you learn in this course will be applicable and useful in private international law courses, e.g., the law of treaties, international jurisdiction, how international courts work, etc.Copyright ? 2013 Valerie Epps. All rights reserved.