English language skills

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 Historic Evolution 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. The Sources of Law: General International Law.

9. The Sources of Law: An 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 Issue: Introduction to the International Space Law

(A) Paola Gaeta, Jorge E. Viñuales, and Salvatore Zappalá, Cassese's International Law, III Ed, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020, ISBN: 9780199231287(except Chapters 17, 20 e 21).

(A) D.M. Janosek, Innovative thinking: modernizing outer space governance, in Catholic University Journal of Law and Technology, 29(2), 2021, 63-90.

(A.) E. Tepper, The big bang of space governance: towards polycentric governance of space activities, in New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, 54(2), 2022, 485-558.

• 1. Didactic approach: - theoretical, - based on case studies. 2. Types of lessons: - Lectures, - Seminar activities, - Interventions by experts. 3. Equipment adopted: - Use of multimedia supports in the classroom [PC and projector], - Viewing of audio-video materials, - Support of online material.

• The examination takes place in written form, in English. In the examination the student is required to show an adequate knowledge of the topics covered in the syllabus by writing a paper, answering three questions. The student may not consult texts during the examination. The duration of the examination is two hours.

  Criteria adopted to define the progression of the final examination mark:

  a) knowledge and ability to understand topics (20% of the overall assessment);

  b) ability to make connections between topics (20% of the overall assessment);

  c) ability to apply knowledge (20% of overall assessment);

  d) autonomy of judgement and critical thinking (20% of the overall assessment);

  e) transposition of acquired knowledge in terms of professional usability (20% of the overall assessment).

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