Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

The course aims at providing you with the analytical tools necessary to understand the institutional structure of the international legal system, specifically addressing some of the most recent developments.

During the programme, you will develop the skills to:

• thoroughly analyse and interpret legal sources, literature and cases
• research and formulate an independent opinion on international legal questions
• clearly present your findings both orally and in writing to legal specialists as well as non-lawyers
• actively participate in debates over contemporary international law issues
• apply your advanced academic knowledge of public international law in a professional context
• actively and skillfully conceptualize, apply, analyse, synthesise, and evaluate information in order to form a judgement and reach an answer or conclusion (critical thinking)

Students should:

• demonstrate a good knowledge and understanding of the topics addressed during the course.
• be able to properly use the skills acquired to analyse and solve international legal questions, applying the correct categories of international law.
• be able to discuss recent developments and formulate an independent opinion, arguing your point of view (or arguing your case for and against). 

The duration of the course is 60 hours (9 credits). 

The course will be articulated in lectures, aimed at framing the key issues and providing a critical appraisal of the subject, and in breakout groups, for activities such as discussion, brainstorming, or the analysis of specific cases and problem questions.

 

2020-2021 ATTENDING students on the Moodle Platform

Please check the information on the exam modalities on the Moodle platform.

 

2020-2021 NON-ATTENDING students

Non-attending students will be evaluated either through an oral exam using the Webex platform or a written exam to be held at Campus (modalities can change to take into account the developments of the pandemic). 

The day of the exam, I will ask you 3 questions on the entire book (you can chose between the two textbooks mentioned below).

To better organise the exam session on the Webex platform, I will send you a tentative calendar of Webex meetings.

You will be divided in small groups and I will give you a specific timing to access the Webex platform. 

The exam sessions may last for a few days, but in this way I hope I will manage to make things as smooth as possible, also for those living in a different time zone.

• Evolution and main features of the international legal order in its historical evolution and in contemporary perspective
• Subjects and actors of international law
• Sources of international law: customs, general principles, treaties and soft law
• State sovereignty, jurisdiction and rules of immunity
• States' responsibility under international law
• The peaceful settlement of international disputes
• The use of force under international law and the UN collective security mechanism
• The protection of human rights

Jan Klabbers, 'International Law', Cambridge University Press, Third Edition, 2021

The textbook is also available in ebook format (Kindle, Adobe e-book reader).

 

 

OR

 

Andres Henriksen, 'International Law', Oxford University Press, 2019 (ISBN 9780198828723)

This textbook is available for rent on a dedicated platform, but is not yet available as ebook.