Public International Law

Unit I — INTRODUCTION

Public International Law: Meaning and Scope · Definitions and Development through Centuries · Theories of Public International Law · International Law: A Tool of Diplomacy and Positive Morality · TWAIL: Third World Approaches to International Law Relevant • UN Charter Laws • International Bill of Rights

• Nature, Origin and Historical Development of International Law
• Definitions of International Law
• Fundamentals of International Law — Theories and Doctrines in International Laws

Unit II — SOURCES OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW

Starke’s Material Sources and Art. 38 of the ICJ Statute · Treaties and Conventions · Customs – Customary International Law · Judicial Decisions: Ex Aequo Et Bono · General Principles of Law: Jus Cogens – Other Sources

• Sources of International Law
• Law of Treaties Definition, kinds and essentials Inception, interpretation of treaties

Unit III — RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUNICIPAL LAW AN D INTERNATIONAL LAW

Theories: Monist, Dualist, Specific Adoption, Transformation and Delegation · Interplay between Municipal Law and International Law: Practice in the US · Interplay between Municipal Law and International Law: Practice in the UK · Interplay between Municipal Law and International Law: Practice in India

• Relationship between International Law and Municipal Law, Monistic Theory, Dualistic Theory)

Unit IV — STATE: SOVEREIGNTY AND JURISDICTION

Concept of State · State Sovereignty · State Territorial Jurisdiction · State Jurisdiction: Civil and Criminal · Exemptions from Territorial Jurisdiction · Law of the Sea

• State Territory Constitution, acquisition, loss
• State Jurisdiction
• The Law of the Sea: (Law of Sea Convention, 1982)
• Maritime Zones

Unit V — RECOGNITION AND SUCCESSION OF STATES

Recognition of States: De Facto and De Jure, Collective Recognition · Theories of Recognition: Constitutive and Declarative · Doctrines of State Recognition · Recognition of Insurgency and Belligerency · Concept of State Succession: Meaning and Kinds · Theories of State Succession

• Recognition of States and Government

Unit VI — INDIVIDUALS AND PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW

Acquisition and Loss of Nationality: Refugees and Stateless Persons · Exile and Asylum · Extradition and Rendition · Case Studies (Nuremberg Trials, Tokyo Trial, Trial of Captain Francis Gary Powers)

• Definition of Nationality, Concept of Double Nationality, Distinction between Nationality and citizenship

Unit VII — CONTEMPORARY TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS

Climate Change and International Law · Drug Trafficking and Human Trafficking · Cyber-terrorism and Cyber Warfare · Recent Geopolitical Conflicts in light of the UN Charter Relevant • Paris Agreement, 2015 and UNFCCC Law • Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 · United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, 2024