Traditional ideas about the private nature of the international legal order are increasingly being forced to contend with the development of public legal elements at the international level. The notion of the international community interest is key to understanding these developments and, as such, has transformed our understanding of international law. There are many different approaches to the public/private distinction in law, broadly categorised into relational, public authority, and interest-based approaches. These can be reduced to four key elements of publicness: the existence of a community or public; the universality of the public regime in question with its own boundaries; normative and institutional hierarchies; the objectivity of obligation and responsibility. The development of the community interest and related norms of international law can be seen to have introduced and strengthened all of these elements of publicness within the international legal system. It is thus on its way to becoming an international public legal order. This has important implications for our understanding of international law and the future development of the international legal order.

关于国际法律秩序私人性质的传统观念正日益被迫与国际一级公共法律要素的发展相抗衡。国际社会利益的概念是理解这些事态发展的关键，因此改变了我们对国际法的理解。公共/私人法律区别有许多不同的方法，大致分为关系，公共权力和基于利益的方法。这些可以归结为公开性的四个关键要素：社区或公众的存在；有问题的公共制度具有普遍性；规范和体制层次结构；义务和责任的客观性。可以看出，社区利益和国际法相关准则的发展已经引入并加强了国际法体系内所有这些公共宣传要素。因此，它正在走向国际公共法律秩序。这对我们对国际法的理解以及国际法律秩序的未来发展具有重要意义。