# International law

`kaal:entity:international-law`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `international-law`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 2 works, 2010 to 2021.

**2010**

- [1664809-033](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/1664809-033) [definitional/argued] -- Overlapping regulation must be distinguished from conflicting regulation: only conflicting regulation could violate international law, because the territorial integrity of a state is breached only where there is a specific true conflict in the substantive legal norms of the respective states.
  > It is important to distinguish 'overlapping' from 'conflicting' regulation. Conflicting regulation could violate international law.
  Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Extraterritorial Application of US Securities Law – Will the US Become the Default Jurisdiction for (2010). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1664809
- [1664809-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/1664809-034) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- If US law requires disclosure of information that another country's law prohibits from being disclosed, whether for privacy or other reasons, there could be a true conflict of law and a credible case that the United States is in breach of international law.
  > disclosure of information that another country's law would prohibit to be disclosed, whether for privacy reasons or other reasons, there could be a true conflict of law and a credible case that the United States is in breach of international law.
  Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Extraterritorial Application of US Securities Law – Will the US Become the Default Jurisdiction for (2010). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1664809

**2021**

- [3808873-020](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-020) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Experimentation with decentralized organizational forms of society is curtailed by the principle of territorial integrity of nation states, a foundational principle of international law under which forced border change justifies war and which sustains a permanent national military presence.
  > Experimentation with decentralized organizational forms of society is curtailed by the principle of territorial integrity of nation states.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/international-law.md | sha256sum

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