ordre public

ordre public (uncountable)

1. In international law, law and order.

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.dʁə py.blik/

ordre public m (uncountable)

1. law and order, public order

   atteinte à l’ordre public, trouble à l’ordre public ― public-order crime, breach of the peace

• ordre public interne (“ius cogens”)
• ordre public international (“public order, the mandatory legal rules which may limit the application of foreign norms”)

• → German: ordre public (“public order, the mandatory legal rules which may limit the application of foreign norms”)
• → English: ordre public (“public order, the mandatory legal rules which may limit the application of foreign norms”)
• → German: öffentliche Ordnung (“public order, the mandatory legal rules which may limit the application of foreign norms”) (calque only in that sense)
• → Serbo-Croatian: javni red (“public order, the mandatory legal rules which may limit the application of foreign norms”) (calque)

• forces de l’ordre