International Organization Law

The increasingly significant role that international governmental organizations play within the International Community requires to investigate thoroughly the issue of institutionalized international cooperation. Therefore, the course will be primarily devoted to analyse, from a legal perspective, the nature of the cooperation carried out through the institution of intergovernmental organizations. The course aims at transmitting knowledge and understanding of the basics of the subject matter. Not only will the teaching activities and evaluation methods develop students' understanding of international law, but they will also enhance their skills to apply such a system of law, their autonomy of judgment and their mastery of legal language, together with their communication skills.

At the end of the course, students shall be acquainted with the founding aspects of the law of international organizations, and will also have to be in the position to grasp the essence of its functioning, all the while showing knowledge of the provisions applicable to several different thematic areas. They are also expected to deal with the most frequent and urgent issues in that field of international relations in an appropriate fashion, by resorting to the theoretical, linguistic, and normative toolbox of international law that they are required to acquire thorough the exam of the judicial application of relevant provisions, thanks to specific case-studies and adequate supporting materials. While attending the course, students will be required to perform hands-down research tasks, hence becoming confident with electronic case-law databases, scholarly collections, and other on-line resources. Such skills, which may be used for autonomous research purposes, appear to be transferrable in nature, so as to be suitable to be eventually resorted to both in the course of their studies and in their future profession.