The Nature and the characteristics of the Rules of International Law

International jurisprudence has used the term "legal rule" to refer to all of the legal rules that are binding on the international legal system, regardless of whether they are characterised by abstraction or generalisation or are focused on a specific situation that does not concern anyone other than specific individuals. Thus, they do not distinguish between the concept of a rule of international law which are general and abstract, and the international law obligation which lacks generality and abstraction, distinguishing between general international rules and relative normativity of international law. What international obligation and legal rule of international law have in common is their obligatory nature, and what distinguishes them is the generality and abstraction of the rules, and the lack of "international commitment" for this generality of international obligtion and its restricted scope to the parties to the obligation.