International Law
Code
711071005
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Políticos
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Francisco Pereira Coutinho (FD/UNL)
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Provide students with competences to recognize the major sources of international law and their content.
b) Give students ability to understand how the international order is constrained by international law and how legal mechanisms are crucial for the stabilization of the international society.
c) Provide students solid knowledge of international law that will enable them to create of a framework of reference to understand international law and its future evolution;
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
I - INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
1.Notion.
2.Evolution.
3.Legal basis and legal nature.
II - SOURCES OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
1.The sources of Public International Law.
2.The treaties.
3.The making of international conventions in Portugal.
III - PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW AND NATIONAL LAW
1.Doctrinal conceptions and incorporation models.
2.The position of public international law in the Portuguese legal order.
IV - Subjects of International Law
1. States.
2. International Organizations.
3. Human person.
4. Other.
V - International Spaces
1. Legal framework of international spaces.
VI - International Responsibility
1. States Civil Responsibility.
2. Individual Criminal Responsibility.
VII - International Conflicts Resolution
1. The principle of peaceful resolution of conflicts.
2. Non judicial peaceful conflicts resolution mechanisms.
10. Judicial conflict resolution mechanisms.
VIII - The Use of Force in International Law
1. The international prohibition on the use of force.
1. The United Nations Charter legal framework on the use of force.
Bibliography
Antonio Cassese, International Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004Gonçalves André Gonçalves Pereira e Fausto de Quadros, Manual de Direito Internacional Público, 3ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2005
Jónatas Machado, Direito Internacional do paradigma clássico ao pós-11 de setembro, 3ª ed., Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2006
Jorge Bacelar Gouveia, Manual de Direito Internacional, 3ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2010
Jorge Miranda, Direito Internacional Público, 5ª Edição, Principia, Lisboa, 2012
Teaching method
1 Doctrinal lessons where the teacher present the syllabus. In these lessons the students are invited to participate by asking questions and making comments.
2- Individual presentations by students. In these sessions, the teacher will guide students in oral presentations, in simulations of hearings of the ICJ and in the resolution of case-studies.
Evaluation method
Students that regularly attend classes are evaluated by one test and by oral and written presentations (maximum of 15% of the evaluation).