Università Roma Tre

The course covers the major areas of international law:
- The basic features of the so-called international community, intended as a social construct: their relevance from a legal standpoint;
- International legal personality: States and international organisations as subjects of international law; other subjects of international law;
- Sources and rules of international law: customs and general international law; the law of treaties; codification in international law; ius cogens the hierarchy of rules in international law;
- Relationships and interaction between international law and domestic law; reception and execution of international legal rules within national legal orders;
- Internationally wrongful act and State responsibility; the responsibility of international organisations;
- International dispute settlement; international courts and tribunals.
In addition, the lectures introduce students to selected special subject areas such as: state territorial sovereignty and its limits (issues of jurisdiction and immunities); human rights; migration law; self-determination of peoples; the prohibition of the use of force and the maintenance of peace and security; international criminal law; the law of the sea.

Textbooks:

At the option of the student,
either
Benedetto Conforti, Diritto internazionale, (Iovane ed.), Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, last edition (2018),
or
Natalino Ronzitti, Introduzione al Diritto internazionale, Torino, Giappichelli, last edition (2016)

In addition, both the following articles:

- Giovanni Cellamare, "Corte internazionale di giustizia", voce dell'Enciclopedia del diritto (Giuffré), Annali, vol. V, 2012
- Giuseppe Palmisano, "Sulla duplice valenza, diplomatica e giurisdizionale, della conciliazione internazionale", in Studi giuridici in ricordo di Giovanni Battaglini, Napoli, Jovene, 2013

he course covers the major areas of international law:
- The basic features of the so-called international community, intended as a social construct: their relevance from a legal standpoint;
- International legal personality: States and international organisations as subjects of international law; other subjects of international law;
- Sources and rules of international law: customs and general international law; the law of treaties; codification in international law; ius cogens the hierarchy of rules in international law;
- Relationships and interaction between international law and domestic law; reception and execution of international legal rules within national legal orders;
- Internationally wrongful act and State responsibility; the responsibility of international organisations;
- International dispute settlement; international courts and tribunals.
In addition, the lectures introduce students to selected special subject areas such as: state territorial sovereignty and its limits (issues of jurisdiction and immunities); human rights; migration law; self-determination of peoples; the prohibition of the use of force and the maintenance of peace and security; international criminal law; the law of the sea.

Textbooks:

At the option of the student,
either
Benedetto Conforti, Diritto internazionale, (Iovane ed.), Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, last edition (2018),
or
Natalino Ronzitti, Introduzione al Diritto internazionale, Torino, Giappichelli, last edition (2016)

In addition, both the following articles:

- Giovanni Cellamare, "Corte internazionale di giustizia", voce dell'Enciclopedia del diritto (Giuffré), Annali, vol. V, 2012
- Giuseppe Palmisano, "Sulla duplice valenza, diplomatica e giurisdizionale, della conciliazione internazionale", in Studi giuridici in ricordo di Giovanni Battaglini, Napoli, Jovene, 2013

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