INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONAL LAW
Academic year and teacher
If you can't find the course description that you're looking for in the above list,
please see the following instructions >>
- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Teacher
- ALESSANDRA ANNONI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- IUS/13
Training objectives
- The course, which is taught in English, will introduce students to the phenomenon of international organization, offering them basic notions on the nature and the rules governing the formation, the functioning, the dissolution and succession of international organizations.
Through the analysis of case-studies, the course aims also at enhancing the students’ ability to deal with international practice and case-law, and to develop a critical approach towards highly topical issues. Prerequisites
- Students enrolled in one of the Degrees offered by the Law Department who have not yet passed the exams of Constitutional Law, Institutions of Private Law and International Law will not be admitted to sit the exam. Incoming exchange students are advised to complete the online self-assessment test on International and EU Law available at: https://goo.gl/forms/rbuR62cFWAmC3U2L2. Students who score less than 22/30 on this test are strongly encouraged to attend the intensive course on Introduction to International and EU Law (17 September-5 October 2018 or the Course of Introduction to EU Law (4-22 February 2018) prior to the course of International Institutional Law.
Course programme
- Purpose and nature of international organizations: the rise of modern organizations and their classification; legal personality of international organizations under international and domestic law (4 hours). - Set up, dissolution and succession of international organizations: treaties and other instruments establishing international organizations; dissolution; succession (4 hours). – Powers of international organizations: attributed, implied and inherent powers (4 hours). - Membership in international organizations: accession and termination of membership; State succession and membership in international organizations (4 hours). – Privileges and immunities of international organizations: sources of law and recent practice (2 hours). – The structure of international organizations: organs and other bodies (4 hours). - The legal instruments of international organizations and their implementation within domestic legal orders: binding and non-binding instruments; decision making and judicial review; the implementation of the acts of international organizations within domestic legal orders (4 hours). - The external relations of IOs (Treaty-making power; organizational liaisons; diplomatic relations; recognition of other subjects of international law) (2 hours). – Responsibility of international organizations: International Law Commission’s Draft Articles of 2011; attribution of the wrongful conduct; Member States’ responsibility for acts of international organizations; responsibility of the Organization in connection with acts of its Member States (4 hours). Seminars (8 hours).
Didactic methods
- 1. Lectures (32 hours). Slides and other teaching materials will be uploaded on the website of the course.
2. Seminars (8 hours). Seminars will be devoted to the analysis of recent case-law or to in-depth focuses on specific topics covered during the lectures. Working in small groups or individually, students will be encouraged to prepare a presentation and to foster the discussion in class. Learning assessment procedures
- Students attending classes:
- Evaluation of assignments presented to the class during the seminars (50% of the final mark)
- Final exam (50% of the final mark).
Students attending classes may choose to sit the final exam the week after the end of the course, either as a written test or as an oral exam, or on any of the official exam dates, only as an oral. The exam will be in English, and aims solely at assessing the achievement of the learning objectives stated above.
Students not attending classes:
Students not attending classes will sit an oral exam in English, aimed at assessing the achievement of the learning objectives stated above.
To pass the exam, students must score at least 18/30. Reference texts
- Students who attend classes may prepare for the exam revising their own notes and studying the texts included in the reading list published on the course's website. Students who do not attend classes may prepare for the exam studying J. KLABBERS, An Introduction to International Organizations Law, 3a ed., Cambridge University Press, 2015, with the exclusion of Chapters 6, 11 and 15.
