International Organisations - LAWS8085
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Kensington Campus
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 5740, 9230, 9240, 5760, 9211, 5211, 9231, 5231, 9281, 5281, 9220 or 5750.
Excluded: JURD7585
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
At the same time, the course will also address such contemporary problems as the creation of an international criminal court, the "succession" of Russia to the USSR's seat on the UN Security Council, the response to the break-up of Yugoslavia, the new strategic concept of NATO, the jurisdictional issues in the Lockerbie-case, peacekeeping after an "Agenda for Peace", the success of the WTO dispute settlement, and the NATO action against Serbia in 1999, the military actions against Afghanistan in 2002 and Iraq in 2003, UN measures against terrorism, and the question of responsibility of international organisations.
Primary consideration will be given to the development of the United Nations. Other universal organizations such as ILO, the Bretton Woods institutions, WTO or ICAO, as well as regional ones such as the Council of Europe, OAS, etc. will also be dealt with. This course does not try to provide a comprehensive picture of all of these organisations. Rather it aims at helping students to understand the common legal problems faced by international institutions.
LLM Specialisations
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- Give students a basic working knowledge of the structure of international institutions
- Assist students to develop an understanding of the tasks and functions of international organizations
- Give students a deeper understanding of the powers and limits of international institutions
- Develop an awareness of different methods of intergovernmental cooperation
Main Topics
- Basic conceptes of the law of international organisations
- Participation in and internal structures of international organisations
- Rule-making by international organisations
- Dispute settlement through international organisations
- Enforcement of decisions by international organisations
- Peace and security activities
- Peacekeeping and UN administration of territory
- International organisations and national legal systems - accountability issues
Assessment
Essay Outline - 5%
Research Essay - 75%
Course Texts
Prescribed
Jan Klabbers, An Introduction to International Institutional Law 2nd edition. Cambridge (CUP, 2009). (=Klabbers).
Charter of the United Nations (available online)
This is the only material which must be bought by all students.
Recommended
- C.F. Amerasinghe, Principles of the Institutional Law of International Organizations. Cambridge (CUP, 2nd ed., 2005) (=Amerasinghe).
- Jan Klabbers (ed.), International Organizations. The Library of Essays in International Law. (Ashgate Dartmouth, 2005).
- August Reinisch, International Organizations before National Courts. Cambridge (CUP, 2000).
- Philippe Sands/Pierre Klein, Bowett's Law of International Institutions, 5th ed. London (Sweet & Maxwell, 2001)
- Henry G. Schermers/Niels M. Blokker, International Institutional Law, 4th ed. (Brill, 2003).
- Bruno Simma (ed.), The Charter of the United Nations. A Commentary. 2nd ed. Oxford (OUP, 2002) (=Simma).
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