Knowledge of English is required.

The aim of the course is to teach you the basic features of public international law and the international legal order and the meaning of public international law for legal practice. The course offers you a first approach with international legal documents in order to test your capacity to analyze and interpret the legal issues addressed by these texts.

1. An Overview on the History of International Law
2. Statehood
3. Spatial Delimitation of State sovereignty
4. Legal Limits to the Exercise of State sovereignty
5. Non-state Subjects of International Law: Organizations and Groups
6. Non-state Subjects of International Law: Peoples
7. The Individual in International Legal System
8. General International Law
9. Introduction to the Law of the Treaties
10. Relationship between the Sources of International law
11. The Implementation of International Rules within National Systems
12. The Law of Responsibility
13. The Peaceful Settlement of Disputes
14. The Use of Economic Coercion
15. The Use of Force
16. Special Issues on the International Law of the Sea

• 1.  (A) Jan Klabbers International Law Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017

12 CFU:
- Students regularly attending the Course will be expected to prepare for the exam on the basis of the notes taken during the classes and of the relevant materials indicated by the lecturer.
- Students not attending the Course will be expected to prepare for the exam on the textbook.

• Classes will mostly be held by the teacher. Working groups will be constituted in order to deliver presentations on select topics of international law during the course. Seminars can be organized on selected topics with the invitation of experts.

• Written exam. This exam will consist of three open questions . The purpose will be to assess the level of knowledge of the candidate and his/her ability to explain the topic which is the object of the question by using an appropriate legal terminology.
  

English; French

English