Course: Law of International Organizations

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Course title Law of International Organizations
Course code MEP/LOIO
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Faix Martin, JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Bureš Pavel, JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction to Law of International Organizations. 2. History of international organizations. 3. Definition, classification, legal character, andpersonality of international organizations 4. Constituent instrument and powers of international organizations. 5. Membership in international organizations, dissolution and succession. 6. Privilegies and immunities, financing. 7. Institutional structures I: Non-judicial organs of IO, their acts: legal caracter and effects. 8. Institutional structures II: Judicial organs and peaceful settlements of disputes. 9. Responsibility of IO 10. International organisations and Human rights 11. International organisations and Peace and Security 12. Final examination

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
Learning outcomes
The role of international organisations in functioning and reshaping of the international community is steadily growing. This is true also from the viewpoint of the Czech Republic. The course "Law of International Organisations" aims at reflecting these developments by introducing the student to the major aspects of the topic, however, with a strong focus on international law. Students will acquire an understanding of inter alia the issues and concepts of legal personality, membership, creation of law by international organisations, but also e.g. the issue of international responsibility of international organisations. Students will be required to participate actively in the classes (students will be expected to present their views on the issues when asked and to respond to questions in the class), follow the current developments in international community, work with relevant documents and literature and fulfil tasks assigned to them.
Students who have completed this course will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to good understanding of basic institutes of the law of international organizations and the role they play as a subject of international law in the international community.
Prerequisites
Completion of this course is not conditional upon completion of any other courses.

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark

The final assessment will consist of: " Attendance 10 % " Active participation 10 % " Presentation 30 % " Final exam (written) 50 %
Recommended literature
  • (1945). Charta spojených národů:an Francisco 26. června 1945. San Francisco 26. června 1945.
  • International Organizations Law Review.
  • Alvarez, Jose E. (2005). International Organizations as Law-Makers.
  • Amerasinghe, C. F. (2007). Principles of the Institutional Law of International Organizations /Second Edition/. Cambrige University Press.
  • Brownlie, I. (2008). Principles of Public International Law, 7th edition. Oxford University Press.
  • David, V. a kol. (2011). Mezinárodní právo veřejné s kazuistikou. 2. Vydání. Praha: Leges.
  • Faix, M. (2012). Law of International Organizations. VUP.
  • Henry G. Schermers, Niels M. Blokker. (2011). International Institutional Law: Unity Within Diversity. Brill.
  • Klabbers, J. (2009). International Institutional Law. Cambridge. Second Edition.


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