I'm going to stick with "imperial". It's not *where* the law applies -- that's probably throughout the empire, including within each star system, on each planet, and so forth. It's more about what is covered. Traveller gives us the example of "Thou shalt not use nuclear weapons on an inhabited planet". It's an imperial law, independent of any member world, but enforced on each of them.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

I’d say Interstellar law, just on the definition.

If a ‘Star system’ is self-governing, interplanetary stuff is an internal affair.

> On Apr 6, 2016, at 3:46 PM, Peter L. Berghold <xxxxxx@berghold.net> wrote:
>
> Assuming a multi-empire (lack of a better word) with vast areas of space
> where individual star systems are self governing what would be a good
> word to use as the equivalent of International Law?

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