If I understand you correctly, you're talking about multiple empires that have signed a treaty agreeing to an Interstellar Law that applies outside of their demesnes and that they'll all uphold.

To me that would indicate stretches of space that are regularly travelled to get between empires but that are actually not settled and have no strategic value. In the TU however the question then becomes "why travel through them at all"? If there is a fuelling capability within these systems then they hold a strategic value, and would come under the administration of one of these empires.

Unless of course there's something else that prevents the empires from claiming or settling these systems (and I assume multiple systems, otherwise the bottlenecks become strategically important as they sit on major trade routes).

If I had a similar situation in my game however, I might name the law after a historical figure, perhaps a past emperor, or even a council? And give it a good reason for people to continue referring to "Interstellar Law" as the "Geneva Accords" :)

> On 7 Apr 2016, at 8:46 AM, Peter L. Berghold <xxxxxx@berghold.net> wrote:
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> 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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