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Lecturer(s)
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Jílek Dalibor, prof. JUDr. CSc.
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Bureš Pavel, JUDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Lectures: 1. Introduction: International law as a legal system for international community. Features and functions of international law, its relation to other legal, para-legal and non-legal systems (international relations, politics, municipal orders.) 2. History of international law. Ancient Greece and Rome. Middle Ages, gradual formation of traditional international law, modern international law. 3. International law and its specificities with comparison to national law. Basic principles and points of interference. 4. Sources of international law I. - general introduction. International customary law. 5. Sources of international law II. - law of treaties. Relation between treaty law and customary rules. 6. Sources of international law - secondary sources, principles of international law. 7. Relation of international law and municipal law(s) in theory, methods of reception. 8. International legal personality - general introduction. States as primary subjects. 9. Other subjects of international law, especially international organisations. 10. Creation of States, statehood criteria and recognition of States. 11. States' jurisdiction and State organs in international relations. 12. Diplomatic and consular law. Seminars: 1. Historical development of international law. 2. Features of international law in comparison to municipal law. 3. Sources of international law. Hierarchy of norms in international law? 4. Formation of international custom. 5. Law of treaties - creation of treaty law rules. 6. Law of treaties - interpretation and validity of international treaties. 7. Methods of reception of international norms into municipal law. Different examples. 8. International legal personality of States - specific features. 9. International legal personality of insurrectional movements. 10. Recognition in international law. 11. Jurisdictional immunities. 12. Case study - protection of diplomatic missions.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
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Learning outcomes
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The course Public International Law 1 aims at general presentation of the discipline as an autonomous system regulating relationships of subject (members) of the international community. The first part is dedicated to historical development of international law, its specificities comparing to municipal legal orders and general institutes and regimes forming this system. Public international law is one of fundamental courses constituting basis of the master in International and European Law.
Student will gain profound knoledge of instituions and branches of public international law.
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Prerequisites
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Completion of this course is not conditional upon completion of some other courses.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark
Continuous control of knowledge in seminar lessons (reading, tests), seminar paper, oral / written exam
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Recommended literature
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Bureš, Pavel. (2013). Introduction to Public International Law.
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David Harries. (2010). Cases and Materials on Public International Law. Sweet Maxwell.
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Faix, M. (2012). Law of International Organizations. VUP.
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James Crawfard. (2012). Brownlie´s Principles of Public International Law. Oxford University Press.
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Shaw, M. (2008). International Law. Cambridge.
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