INTERNATIONAL LAW

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0444

Academic Year of enrolment:

2021

Year of supply:

2022/2023

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:

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

- The international legal order. The subjects: States and international organizations. Other subjects.
- The lawmaking process of international law: the sources.
- The implementation of international law within the State: the adaptation of domestic law to international law.
- The notion of international organization.
- Origin of the phenomenon of international organizations and its evolution.
- The international legal personality of international organizations.
- Competencies of international organizations.
- The institutional apparatus of international organizations.
- Normative acts of international organizations.
- External relations of international organizations.
- Relations between the law of international organizations and domestic law.
Note: students be well aware of and be able to discuss the provision of the following agreements (insofar as they are referred to in the text):
* United Nations Charter
* Statute of the International Court of Justice;
* Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties;
* Treaties establishing the European Union;
* European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
The Italian texts of the agreements (excluding EU/FFEU treaties) can be found in the volumes:
R. LUZZATTO – F. POCAR, Codice di Diritto
internazionale pubblico, VII ed. Torino, Giappichelli, 2016.
The texts of the EU and TFEU Treaties can be read in any code updated to 2021 or in
B. NASCIMBENE, Unione europea – Trattati, IV ed., Torino, Giappichelli, 2020.

Recommended Bibliography

STUDY TEXTBOOKS
B. CONFORTI, M. IOVANE, Diritto internazionale, XII ed., Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli 2021 (Introduzione, Parte prima, Parte terza).
P. PENNETTA P. – S. CAFARO – A. DI STASI – I. INGRAVALLO – G. MARTINO – C. NOVI, Diritto delle organizzazioni internazionali, Wolters Kluwer, Milano, 2018 Capitoli IV, V, VII, VIII, XI).
STUDY AUXILIARY TEXTS TO BE CONSULTED
R. LUZZATTO – F. POCAR, Codice di Diritto
internazionale pubblico, VII ed. Torino, Giappichelli, 2016.
The texts of the EU and TFEU Treaties can be read in any code updated to 2021 or in
B. NASCIMBENE, Unione europea – Trattati, IV ed., Torino, Giappichelli, 2020.

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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