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DAMODARAM SANJIVYYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY

Visakhapatnam
COURSE OUTLINE
Title of the Subject: Public International Law
Name of the Faculty: Ms. S. Prathyusha

Total No. of Hours: 65

Note: 1. Academic Session 6th July - 7th November, 2015 (13th July 2015 for 1st

year) (Tentatively 65 Hours)


2. Cases mentioned shall have the complete citation
3. Number of Units may be added or reduced as per requirement
4. Books for Reference shall be indicated
5. The list of under mentioned cases is not exhaustive; it only enumerates the
important significant cases
Unit
No.

UNIT 1
Topic: INTRODUCTION

1.1

Meaning, Scope and Characteristics of


Public International Law

1.2

Evolution of International Law- Ancient Age,


Medieval Age
International Law in Renaissance period to
Modern Age

1.3

No. of
CASES FOR REFERENCE
Hours
(List of Cases are not exhaustive
Faculty may discuss or indicate
any additional Cases)
R v Keyn(1876) 2 Ex D 63; West
2
Rand Central Gold Mining Co. v R.,
(1905) 2 KB p. 391
1

Reading Material
1. Oppenheims International Law, Vol. I, Ninth Edition (1992),p.2
2. Dr. H.O. Agarawal- International Law & Human Rights
3. Stakes International Law , 11th Edition, (1994) p.3

2.1
2.2

2.3
2.4

UNIT 2
Topic: Sources of International Law
Introduction, Meaning, Formal Sources and
Material Sources, Article 38 of ICJ
Customs, Conventions, Treaties, Judicial
Nicaragua v. U.S.A, ICJ Reports
Decisions, Writers, Teachings, Other
1986, Nauru v. Australia
possible sources
(Jurisdiction), ICJ Reports 1992,
West Rand Central Gold Mining
CO. Ltd R.,, (1905) 2 KB 391
General Principles of Law recognized by
Civilised Nations
Soft Sources of International Law

1
2

2
1

Reading Material
1. Year Book of The International Law Commission, 1949, p.36
2. Westlake International Law, Part I , Second Edition, p.14
3. Oppenheims International Law, Vol. I, Ninth Edition (1992

3.1
3.2

3.3
3.4
3.5

UNIT 3
Topic: International Law and Municipal Law
Introduction, Meaning, Difference between
International Law and Municipal Law
Theories on Relationship between
R. . v. Bow Street Metropolitan
Municipal Law and International Law
Stipendiary Magistrate ex parte
Pincochet, (No. 3) 1997, 2 All E.R.
97, Fothergill v. Monarch Airlines
Ltd., (1981) AC .p.251, Barbuits
Case( 1773)
Municipal Role in International Law
International Law before Municipal Courts
Practice of States Regarding Relationship Triquet v. Bath (1764), Murry v. The
Charming Betsey (1804), U.S v.
Palestine Liberation Organisation,
695 F Supp 1456, (SDNY 1988)
Reading Material
1. Oppenheims International Law, Vol. I, Ninth Edition (1992), p. 53
2. Stakes International Law , 11th Edition, (1994) p. 65,73
3. DD. Basu,, Commentary on Constitution of India (1956) Vol II , p. 404.
UNIT 4
Topic: Subjects to International Law
Reparation for injuries case, ICJ
Reports (1949),179

4.1

Introduction

4.2
4.3
4.4

Legal Personality
States
Special types of Personality

4.5

Controversial Candidatures
1.
2.
3.
4.

5.1
5.2
5.3

State of Vatican City v.


Piecukiewicz, ILR 78,120; HolySee
v. Starbright Sales
Anglo- Iranian Oil Company Case,
ICJ Reports (1952),93 at 112

1
2

2
2

1
1
1
1
1

Reading Material
Lauterpacht, International Law: Collected Papers,II.(1975),487-533
The Changing Structure of International Law (1964)
Kelsen , Principles of International Law (2nd edn.,1967),252
See Talmon, Essay in Honour of Ian Brownile,1999,499-537
UNIT 5
Topic: States under International Law
Introduction to States
Austro- German Customs Union
Case; French Indemnity of 1931,
Recognition of States and Governments
Western Sahara Case, I.C.J
Reports 1975, p.12
Continuation and Existence of States
Reparation for Injuries Suffered in
2

2
2
2

the Service of the UN case, I.C.J


Reports 1949, p.174
5.4
5.5

Succession of States
States as subjects of International Law

Nanni v Pace and the sovereign


Order of Malta (1935-37) 8 A.D.
Italian Court of Cassation

2
2

UNIT 6
Topic: Recognition
6.1

Recognition of States and Governments

6.2
6.3

De facto and de jure recognition


Types of Recognition

6.4
6.5
6.6

Withdrawal of Recognition
Non- Recognition
Legal effects of Recognition

Luther v Sagor(1921) 3 KB 432,


United States v Belmont, (1937)
301 US 342,; Great Britain v. Costa
Rica (1923);
Reference re Succession of
Quebec case(1998) 2 S.C.R 217
para 138

2
1
1
1
2

Reading Material
1. Oppenheims International Law, Vol. I, Ninth Edition (1992), p130-131
2. Year Book of the International Law Commission, (1949) p. 289 para 50
3. Recognition in International Law, AJIL Vol 35 (1941) p. 605
4. OConnell ,International Law, Vol 1, p. 173
5.
UNIT 7
Topic: Jurisdiction
7.1
7.2

The principle of Domestic Jurisdiction


Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction

7.3

War Crimes, Crime against peace and


Humanity

7.4
7.5

Extradition, Extra territorial Jurisdiction


Immunities from Jurisdiction

Boumediene v Bush (2008) 171 L.


Ed. 2nd 41, See Jenk9 H.R.L.R. 306;
The Lotus Case(France v
Turkey(1927)
Attorney General of the
Government of Israel v
Eichmann(1961) 36 I.L.R, 5; The
Arrest Warrant Case ( Democratic
Republic of Congo v Belgium)
The Schooner Exchange v
Mcfaddon 7 Cranch 116 (1812). ;
Holland v Lampen Wolfe (2002) 1
W.L.R. 1573

1
1

1
1

UNIT 8
Topic: Law of Treaties
8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5

8.6

Making of Treaties
Reservation to Treaties
The Application of Treaties

Interpretation of Peace Treaties


case

Amendments and Modification of Treaties


Invalidity, Termination and Suspension of
operation of Treaties

Greenland Case (PCIJ, Series A/B,


No. 53, p. 71 and 72, Fisheries
Jurisdiction Case (UK v. Iceland
and Federal Republic of Germany
v Iceland) ICJ Reports 1973

Dispute Settlement

1
1
1
2
2

Reading Material
1. S.E. Nahlik, The Ground of Invalidity and TERMINATION OF Treaties, AJIL Vol 65
(1971) P. 749
2. Year Book of International Law Commission, 1966 Part II
3. McNair Law of Treaties p. 199

UNIT 9
Topic: International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
9.1

Development of International Human Rights


Law

9.2
9.3

Human Rights under United Nations system


Agencies- ILO, UNESCO, European
Convention on Human Rights, American
Convention on Human Rights, Arab Charter
on Human Rights

Danzing Railway Officials case;


Nottebohm case, ICJ Reports,
1955, pp4, Chumbipuma Aguirre v.
Peru, the Barrios Altos
caseRobertt E. Brown case 6
RIAA , p.120
Namibia case of 1971

UNIT 10
Topic: Law of Sea
10.1
UNCLOS, Territorial sea
10.2
Different Zones and their rights
Regina v. Kent Justices, exp. Lye
(1967)2 QB 153
10.3
Continental SHELF
10.4
The Regime of the high sea
Fisheries Case, ICJ Reports
(1951),128 and UN Legis Series,
Regime of Territorial
Sea,pp.14,48,54,194,254,293,563,56
4
10.5
Dispute Settlement
Reading Material
1. Jessup, The Law of Territorial Waters and Maritime Jurisdiction
4

1
2

1
1
1
1

2. See generally Masterson, Jurisdiction in Marginal Seas(1929)


3. I. Brownile, Principles of Public International Law, 7th Edition,

Books for Reference


Sl.
No.

Author

Title of the Book

Publisher

1.

Malcolm N. Shaw

International Law

Press Syndicate of the


University of Cambridge

2.

H.O Agrawal

3.

Ian Brownile

Principles of Public International


Law

Oxford University Press

4.

S.K . Agrawal (Ed.)

Essays on the Law of


Treaties(1972)

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