PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW

SOME CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

LAW SCHOOL, SOUTH EASTERN UNIVERSITY

NANJING

Kojo Yelpaala

Professor of Law

McGeorge School of Law

May 29-June 7 2012

Course outline:

1.5月29日(星期二)上午1-4节；

The Nature of International Law: Framing the Issues

a.Framing the context of the study of international law

b.History Context

c.Philosophical and Jurisprudential debate over the nature of international law

d.Contemporary characterization

e.The future of the jurisprudence: the 21st century and beyond

2.5月31日(星期四)上午，3-4节；

The Sources of International Law

a.Sources as articulated in Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice

3.6月4日(星期一)上午，1-2节；

The Law of Treaties

a.Importance and proliferation of treaties in international law (trade agreements, bilateral investment treaties etc.)

b.The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

c.Definition of a treaty

d.Overview of process and important provisions

e.Some contemporary issues relating treaty making competency of states

4.6月5日(星期二)，上午1-4节；

International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

a.The concept of territorial sovereignty, territorial integrity

b.Humanitarian intervention: right or responsibility?

c.Drivers of intervention within international law

d.Cultural dimensions of intervention or the lack of it

5.6月7日(星期四)，上午，3-4节；下午，6-7节；

The International Court of Justice

a.An overview

6.International criminal Law

a.What are international law crimes

b.Why do they deserve this label

c.Prosecution of International law crimes

d.What role for municipal criminal law processes

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