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Traditionally, two kinds of law are distinguished. On one hand, there is national or domestic law, which deals with legal relations within the territory of a single state and with the organization of that state itself. On the other hand, there is international law (sometimes called “public international law”), which deals with the legal relations between states.
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Kamminga, M.T. (2014). International Law. In: Hage, J., Akkermans, B. (eds) Introduction to Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06910-4_11
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