ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL LAW

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L00937

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in MODERN LANGUAGES FOR MANAGEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Disciplinary Sector:

International Law

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

PUOTI Paola

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

None

Objectives

The teaching contributes to the achievement of the educational objectives of the course of study in Lingue straniere per l'impresa e la cooperazione internazionale (LM/38)
KNOWLEDGE AND CAPABILITY OF UNDERSTANDING: The course is structured in two parts: Part 1 aims to enable students to know the content of the fundamental rules of the international legal order, and the related terminological and technical tools, while providing the appropriate means to acquire the correct methodology of study of the subject.
Part 2 is devoted to the study of the constituent treaties of the IOs, and to the principles and rules governing them.
At the end of the course students will be able to understand the structure of the international legal system, and the structure of the International Organizations acting in the international legal order, their functions, their institutional framework, their competencies, their lawmaking process, their external relations.
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
this knowledge will enable students, within the scope of their possible employment, to apply international law and the internal law of International Organizations.

Contents

1. The international legal order: States and IOs. Other subjects.
2. The International Law making process: the sources.
3. The implementation of international law into domestic legal order
PARTE SPECIALE
1. The notion of international organization.
2. The origin of the phenomenon of international organizations and its evolution.
3. The international legal personality of international organizations.
4. Competencies of international organizations.
5. The institutional apparatus of international organizations.
6. Normative acts of international organizations.
7. External relations of international organizations.
8. Relations between the law of international organizations and domestic law.

Extended Syllabus

SUBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
States
IOS
Individuals and other subjects
CUSTOM
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
THE HIERARCHY OF SOURCES

INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND THEIR MEMBERS
the international community and its norms
The various forms of cooperation between states
Concept of international organisation
The affairs of international organisations
Membership of international organisations
The vicissitudes of membership of international organisations
The obligations of member states relating to the immunities and privileges of international organisations and their basis
The financing of international organisations and its significance
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONING OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
Various types of international organisations; their functions in their historical evolution
The powers of international organisations; their attribution, limits and evolutionary dynamics
The structure of international organisations
The individuals that make up the organs of international organisations and their status.
THE PERSONALITY OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND THEIR INTERNAL ORDER
The international personality of international organisations
The manifestations of the international personality of international organisations
The domestic legal system of international organisations and its nature
The sources of the internal legal order of international organisations
The articles of incorporation and statutes
The common general principles
The acts of international organisations
The relationship between the domestic law of international organisations and the laws of member states

Recommended Bibliography

B. CONFORTI, M. IOVANE, Diritto internazionale, XII ed., Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli 2021 (Introduzione, Parte prima U.DRAETTA , Principi di diritto delle organizzazioni internazionali, Milano, Giuffré, 2020 Anyone who passed the international law exam in the triennial is exempt from the CONFORTI-IOVANE

Teaching Methods

Classroom lessons: the teaching is structured in 48 hours of frontal teaching divided into 2 weekly lessons of 2 hours each.
Frontal teaching consists of theoretical lessons.
Seminars: the students will be offered a series of classroom-based tests to verify their learning and understanding of the topics dealt with, based on some practical cases that will be discussed during the course of the lessons.
Attendance is optional, but recommended.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The examination consists of an oral test. The arguments reflect those dealt with during the teaching and included in the syllabus.
The final oral test is the same for both attending and non-attending students.
Partial examinations: a partial examination is foreseen in order to facilitate the preparation of the final exam, reserved to the attending students. The final mark is in thirtieth percentile.
LEARNING RESULTS:
a) KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL OF UNDERSTANDING: to describe the history, structure, principles, acts and their implementation, relating to the law of international organizations; to analyze the fundamental aspects of the acts of international organizations and of the agreements concluded with third states; to illustrate the interaction between the law of international organizations and domestic legal orders.
b) APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: autonomy of judgment; ability to connect institutional and substantive aspects of international law and international organizations.

Contacts/More Information

E-mail address: paola.puoti@unich.it
Student reception day and time: Thursday, 11:00-13:00.
Prof. Puoti carries out tutoring activities for third year SEGI students.
Degree thesis: knowledge of English and possibly of another EU language (other than Italian) is required.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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