Study:	International Law - 10. semester
Code:	86140
ECTS:	4.0
Course coordinators:	prof. dr. sc. Davorin Lapaš izv. prof. dr. sc. Henrik-Riko Held
Lecturers:	doc. dr. sc. Rutvica Rusan Novokmet - Lectures
Exam dates:	26. 06. 2023. 10. 07. 2023. 28. 08. 2023. 11. 09. 2023. Exam registration: Studomat

Literature:

A. Nussbaum; A Concise History of the Law of Nations; Macmillan, New York (1954), str. 1-27; 54-71; 115-196 R. Domingo; The New Global Law; Cambridge University Press (2010), str. (selected chapters)

Optional literature:

D.J. Bederman; International Law in Antiquity; Cambridge University Press (2001), str A. Calore (ed.); "Guerra giusta"? Le metamorfosi di un concetto antico; Giuffre, Milano (2003), str P. Catalano; Linee del sistema sovranazionale romano; Giappichelli, Torino (1965), str A. Truyol y Serra; Histoire du droit international public; Economica, Paris (1995), str K.-H. Ziegler; Voelkerrechtsgeschichte; Beck, Muenchen (1994), str Travaux of the United Nations International Law Commission; ; , str

Description:

The course tends to provide an overview of the historical development of international law through the analysis of legal doctrine and basic concepts of international law throughout history (antiquity, middle ages, early modern period and contemporary period). Recent tendencies in the development of international law are also analyzed with particular emphasis on the codification of international law under the auspices of the United Nations.

Cognitive Skills:

Knowledge and understanding

After successfully mastering the course, students will be able:

- identify theories on the development and fragmentation of international law;

- define legal concepts connected with the development of international law;

- expplain the trends in the development of international law and recognise their connection and integration in the international law system.

 

Application

After successfully mastering the course, students will be able:

- to group and describe factors and circumstances that influence the development of international law;

- apply relevant international law norms to concrete examples from international practice;

- illustrate the importance of international law for the stability of international order and deepening the cooperation between the states and other international law subjects

 

Analysis

After successfully mastering the course, students will be able:

- analyse processes of the development of international law

- distinguish the forms and processes of the development of international law norms and their crteators, and to distinguish relevant international law institutes;

- categorise international law norms that influence the development of international community;

- analyse the application of international law norms that relate to various subjects of international law and other stakeholders in international relations

 

Synthesis

After successfully mastering the course, students will be able:

- construct the connection between individual legal institutes and their integration in the overall system of international law;

- formulate conclusions about the significance of the development of international law norms and institutes to the relations in modern world order

 

Evaluation

After successfully mastering the course, students will be able:

- evaluate the significance of specific international legislative processes for the stability of the world order;

- assess specific role of different international law subjects as creators and recipients of international law norms;

- estimate the importance of the participation of the Republic of Croatia in the process of creating international law, on regional, European and universal level

- evaluate efficiency of international law norms,

 

 

 

Practical and Generic Skills:

After successfully mastering the course, students will gain competences that will enable them analysis of the development of international law system through the operation of intergovernmental organisations, particularly in the sense of so called official codifications, and also through the study of the influence of material sources of international law on the development of international law. Gained competences will enable students to use relevant international documents of normative content (treaties, court decisions, resolutions and so on) in an appropriate manner.

Matching Assessments to Learning Outcomes:

Knowledge is tested by an oral examination.

Oral examination, which is compulsory for all students, consists of testing understanding theories about the development and fragmentation of international law, both material and institutional, as well as legal concepts and institutes connected to that. Connection and comparison of legal rules and institutes is expected, as well as evaluation of the applicability of the norms of international law in modern international community.

Consultations schedule:

• prof. dr. sc. Davorin Lapaš:

  Tuesdays, at 2 pm

  Location: Ćirilometodska 4, room 24
• izv. prof. dr. sc. Henrik-Riko Held:

  Tuesdays from 15h or by agreement (mail or message via Merlin, GMeet or live)

  Location: Ćirilometodska 4, room 36
• doc. dr. sc. Rutvica Rusan Novokmet:

  Tuesdays, at 2 pm, Ćirilometodska 4, room 12

   

  Location: Ćirilometodska 4, room Ćirilometodska 4, soba 12