International Law

The course complements the course of the second year in International and EU Law. It aims at opening students to the knowledge of the main international law instruments effective into specific areas of inter-State cooperation. Specific attention is paid to States' practice and to the case law of domestic and international courts and tribunals. The course offers a legal perspective for the analysis of current relevant events involving both States and intergovernmental organizations. Its purposes also include the strengthening of students' ability to apply the founding concepts of public international law to interpret the current state of international relations under a legal perspective.

At the end of the course, students will be capable to apply the founding concepts of public international law to case studies and international disputes involving States and/or intergovernamental organizations. The study of the teaching materials and the analysis of specific case studies (also during classes, for attending students) will allow students to define the legal dimension of the most frequent and urgent issues arising in specific sectors of inter-state relations. When dealing specific case studies, students will be able to identify the relevant legal discipline under public international law instruments, to interpret and apply it correctly, recurring, at the same time, to the most appropriate language tools.