Public International Law

Course content:

The course develops the students’ ability to identify,

analyze and work with international legal issues in a competent
legal manner.

It provides the students with the necessary skills needed to

recognize matters of international law as well as the ability to
relate more broadly to issues of an international character
The teaching covers:

• Foundations and structures of international law

• The relationship between international and national law

• Sources of international law

• Treaty law, including regulations and principles for drafting

treaties, provisos and cessation

• The actors in the international legal system

• The principles of jurisdiction

• Immunity from national jurisdiction

• Diplomatic immunity (and protection)

• State responsibility

• International law of the sea

• The peaceful settlement of disputes

• The international regulation of the use of force

• The law of armed conflict (humanitarian law)

• International criminal law

Textbook:
Anders Henriksen, International Law, Oxford
University Press (2017), Chapters 1 – 8 and
Chapters 12-15. (Correct 3 errors, please)

Learning goals for the exam:

(24 hours take home exam, 18-19 December 2018).

In order to obtain a 12 the student must be able to:

• Apply various theories of international law to concrete issues
• Identify answers to various concrete issues with the aid of the
different sources of international law
• Interpret treaties
• Apply principles of state sovereignty, jurisdiction and
immunity to concrete issues
• Apply state principles of state responsibility to concrete issues
• Identify answers to specific law of the sea issues, such as
problems in connection with the limits of fishing zones, straits
and continental shelves
• Identify proposed solutions for the peaceful solving of
international disputes
• Apply regulation, principally from the UN Convention
(Charter?), to concrete examples of the use of armed force
• Apply the principles contained within the law of armed
conflict
• Apply the principles in international criminal law
How we work at the seminars:
Cases and materials for 14 x 2 hours = seminars, which you will
find under ”FILES” at ABSALON, the socalled International Law
Manual for students.
Normally I will follow up on our last seminar using the control
questions. Then the groups will present their written (or oral)
presentation on todays subject, and we conclude on this subject
(ourstanding questions etc)

After this I present some essentials of the subject

for our next seminar – based on a Power Point,
which I distribute to you afterwards.
Your group presentation should be delivered (if at all possible as
PDF-files) to mikkelsen.folkeret @gmail.com .
Each group appoints a contact person responsible for delivery of
the group presentations!
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