Public international law (IER4021)

Uitwerking van onderwijsgroepen van Public International Law Master Blok 1 Maastricht University

Summaries of the readings for Public International Law week 1: - Gleider Hernandez, International Law – Chapter 1, The History and Nature of International Law; - Gleider Hernandez, International Law – Chapter 2, Sources of international law; - Gleider Hernandez, International Law – Chapter 3, Hierarchy of Norms in International Law; - Gleider Hernandez, International Law – Chapter 4, International Law and Municipal Law; - J. Vidmar. ‘Norm Conflicts and Hierarchy in International Law: T...

Summaries of the readings for Public International Law week 4: - Gleider Hernandez, International Law – Chapter 5, States as subjects of international law; - J. Vidmar, ‘Territorial Integrity and the Law of Statehood’, GWILR, 2012; - J. Vidmar, ‘Catalonia: The Way Forward is Comparative Constitutional Rather than International Legal Argument’, EJIL Talk (2017); - Reference re Secession of Quebec, The Supreme Court of Canada, 1998 (Paragraph 111 onwards); - The Kosovo Advisory Opinion, ...

Summaries of the readings for Public International Law week 5: - Gleider Hernandez, International Law – Chapter 8; - Gleider Hernandez, International Law – Chapter 9, Immunities; - Akande & Shah, ‘Immunities of State Officials, International Crimes, and Foreign Domestic Courts’ EJIL, 2010; - Vidmar, Rethinking Jus Cogens after Germany v. Italy: Back to Article 53? NILR, 2012; - The Arrest Warrant Case (The Congo v Belgium), ICJ, 2002; - The Jurisdictional Immunities Case (Germany v Italy...

Summaries of the readings for Public International Law week 3: - Gleider Hernandez, International Law – Chapter 5, States as subjects of international law; - Gleider Hernandez, International Law – Chapter 6, International Organisations; - Gleider Hernandez, International Law – Chapter 10, State responsibility; - J. Vidmar, ‘Some Observations on Wrongfulness, Responsibility and Defences in International Law’; - ICJ, Nicaragua v United States, 1986 - ICTY, Tadic, 1999 (Paragraphs 98-114...

Summaries of the readings for Public International Law week 6: - Gleider Hernandez, International Law – Chapter 14, Use of force and collective security; - The Nicaragua case, ICJ 1986 (merits) (most important is the ICJ’s judgment on the prohibition of the use of force and non-intervention); - J. Vidmar, The Use of Force as a Plea of Necessity, 111 AJIL Unbound (2017) 301; - J. Vidmar, Excusing Illegal Use of Force: From Illegal but Legitimate to Legal Because it is Legitimate?, EJIL Talk, ...

Summaries of the readings for Public International Law week 2: - Gleider Hernandez, International Law – Chapter 7, The Law of Treaties; - Martin Dixon, Robert McCorquodale & Sarah Williams, Cases & Materials on International Law (6th edn., OUP, 2016). – Chapter 3; - Goodman, R. ‘Human Rights, Invalid Reservations, and State Consent’, 96 AJIL, 531

This 13-page document provides a complete summary of the course Public International Law from the Master Globalisation and Law at Maastricht University, taught by Professor Jure Vidmar. It summarises all the learning objectives and the answers thereto in a clear and structured manner. Most readings in this course come from the book "International Law" by Gleider Hernandez, though the document of course also contains the main conclusions or findings from the relevant other readings, which were ma...

Assignment for week 6 with detailed tutorial notes after assignment questions (on the end of the document) Message me if you need a sample (or cannot see the tutorial part in sample pages).