INTERNATIONAL LAW C

General Module

Course Sheet

Course code:

00023LC

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in BUSINESS LAW

Disciplinary Sector:

International Law

Is part of:

INTERNATIONAL LAW

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

NEPA ALESSANDRA

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

For students enrolled in all First Level Degree Courses: having taken and passed the Public Law examination. For students enrolled in the Degree Course in Servizi Giuridici per l’Impresa (SEGI): have taken and passed the Constitutional Law exam.

Objectives

The teaching contributes to the achievement of the educational objectives of the course of study in Servizi Giuridici per l’Impresa (SEGI).
KNOWLEDGE AND CAPABILITY OF UNDERSTANDING: The course aims to enable students to know the content of the fundamental rules of the international legal system, and the related terminological and technical tools, while providing the appropriate means to acquire the correct methodology of study of the subject. At the end of the course students will be able to understand the structure of the international legal system, as a set of limits to the sovereignty of the single state in favour of cooperation actions through the setting up of common rules useful to solve problems that cannot be dealt with adequately and effectively at state level.
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
this knowledge will enable students, within the scope of their possible employment, to apply international law, and to make compliance-oriented choices with respect to this legal order.

Contents

The course focuses on the study of the content of the international customary rules governing the main areas of this legal order, such as territorial sovereignty, the treatment of foreigners, the protection of human rights and the environment, the punishment of international crimes, and the law of the sea.

Extended Syllabus

The course programme, which corresponds to Part II of the Handbook B. CONFORTI, M. IOVANE, Diritto internazionale, XII ed., Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, 2021, from p. 205 to p. 343, is structured as follows:
1. The content of international law as a set of limits to the sovereignty of the State.
2. Territorial sovereignty and its limits: the protection of human rights.
3. The punishment of international crimes.
4. The limits to sovereignty resulting from economic relations.
5. The limits to sovereignty arising from the protection of the environment.
6. The limits to sovereignty arising from international rules on the treatment of foreigners, diplomatic agents, foreign states and international organisations.
7. The limits to sovereignty arising from international rules on the law of the sea relating to the delimitation of marine spaces.
8. The limits to sovereignty arising from international rules on airspace, cosmic, polar regions.
All students should be well aware of and be able to discuss 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 (TEU and TFEU);
* European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

Recommended Bibliography

STUDY HANDBOOK
B. CONFORTI, M. IOVANE, Diritto internazionale, XII ed., Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, 2021, part. II.
TEXTS TO BE CONSULTED
LUZZATTO – POCAR - VILLATA, Codice di Diritto internazionale pubblico, VIII ed. Torino, Giappichelli, 2020.
B. NASCIMBENE, Unione europea – Trattati, V ed., Torino, Giappichelli, 2020.

Teaching Methods

Classroom lessons: the teaching is structured in 24 hours of frontal teaching. 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 mark is in thirtieth percentile.
LEARNING RESULTS:
a) KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL OF UNDERSTANDING: describe, understand and know how to interpret the rules that constitute the content of the international legal order.
b) CAPABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: autonomy of judgement; knowing how to identify the interaction between the different substantive norms of the international legal order, also linking the different sectors and to be able to identify and resolve conflicts between norms of different content applicable to the same concrete case.

Contacts/More Information

E-mail address: alessandra.nepa@unich.it
Student reception day and time: Thursday, 11:00-13:00

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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