COURSE MANUAL

Public International Law

Spring 2024
Academic Year 2023 -2024
B.A., LL. B/B.B.A, LL.B – 2021

From: Joe Sacco, The Hague in Journalism

Course Instructors:
Aashish Yadav, Abhimanyu Singh, Abhishek Rana, Akmal Handi Ansari,
Akshata A. Ahire, Anuj Chand, Biswanath Gupta, Neha Singh, Piergiuseppe
Pusceddu, Pratik Purswani, Sanitya Kalika, Srinjoy Sarkar

Course Coordinator
Srinjoy Sarkar
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O. P. JINDAL GLOBAL UNIVERSITY

PART - I

General Information

General Information on Public International Law, offered by Jindal Global

Law School (JGLS) for Spring 2024 in the Academic Year 2023-2024

The following information contains the official record of the details of the
course.

This document is illustrative and contains general guidelines and readings

for the course. The instructor retains the right to modify the course (without
tampering its basic framework and objectives) for its effective
implementation and reception.

Course Title: Public International Law

Course Code: L-CT-0024

Course Duration: One Semester (15 weeks)

Number of credits: 4

Level: Five Year Degree Programme

Medium of Instruction: English

Pre-requisites: Nil

Equivalent courses: Nil

A note of acknowledgements

This course manual has been finalized by the course instructors who are
grateful to the previous instructors of the course at JGLS on whose work
this manual has been incrementally built over semesters. The course
instructors would also like to thank Aditya Roy, Amlan Mishra, Farhan
Ahmad, Raghavi Vishwanath, Shubhangi Agarwalla, Swati Singh Parmar,
and some good people of Twitter-verse for their comments, inputs, and
suggestions. Besides that, the course instructors would also like to thank

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the people behind course manuals of other law schools in India and beyond
that they could refer.

PART II

a. Course Description
In times of today, it’s tough to, especially for law students, to have not
heard of public international law and have some views on it. Often, not
without reason.

Considering this, some of the biggest resistance one faces with public
international law teaching in India is the skepticism that comes with it -
around its operability (and, thus effectiveness of implementation),
relatability or even its existence. 1 To that end, we hope that this course
gives one an avenue to understand, and appreciate if public international
law “exists”, and much like (or unlike) domestic law, how it has implications
on everyday experiences2 particularly in spaces that we inhabit (accounting
both for our positions of privilege and the lack of it) 3 - sometimes in ways
hard to imagine or relate to.4 Take for instance, COVID: be it the causes, the
crisis, the vaccination policy – international law interacts with each of this.

1 See Rohini Sen, “International Law in Indian Law Schools - What remains invisible?”
(December 2020) available at: http://rsrr.in/2020/12/24/international-law-in-indian-law-
schools/#_ftnref23 (Rohini Sen)
2 See graphic art by Mohsen al Attar, and Mia Koning titled “Education for Emancipation”,
3 Trade L. & Dev. 257 (2011); Srinivas Burra, Teaching Critical International Law:
Reflections from the Periphery,March 2021 available at: https://twailr.com/teaching-
critical-international-law-reflections-from-the-periphery/#easy-footnote-2-3588
3 See Rohini Sen: “Students in India understand international law to either be a ‘boutique
subject’ or one that leads to ‘being employed at the United Nations’ and hence, outside the
immediate domain of relevance. Any benefit of the subject for the outcome-oriented law
student lies in academic opportunities and scholarship. And, the scope of participation in
the motions of International Organizations, are usually perceived as far removed from their
ecosystem. This ‘deficit’ of international law teaching-learning is not just located in a ‘lack
of relatability’ for students. It is deeply rooted in how international law is constructed,
taught and understood in these places.” Antony Anghie, “Critical Pedagogy Symposium:
Criticial Thinking and Teaching as Common Sense- Random Reflections”, (Augiust 2020)
OpinioJuris, available at http://opiniojuris.org/2020/08/31/critical-pedagogy-symposium-
critical-thinking-and-teaching-as-common-sense-random-reflections/; See, Gerry Simpson,
On the Magic Mountain: Teaching Public International Law, EJIL 10 (1999), 70–92
available at: http://www.ejil.org/pdfs/10/1/579.pdf.
4 See Rohini Sen, Ibid on the insides, and the outsides of international law.

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Even many things that we see as “internal” issues (or are made to see so) in
today’s world!5

This, of course, is not to romanticize the relevance of international law.

While not losing sight of the point above, the course does not want to ignore
how international law has a questionable history, how the law plays out (in
terms of its making, in terms of its effectiveness, or how its practice, like
any discipline of law, responds to power), or how universal it is, or even how
aware are its practitioners of its own shortcomings.

Sum of it all - as people who have landed to learn law (by choice or
otherwise), some working knowledge of international law that this course
aims at will surely help us be familiar with a vocabulary that has become
very pervasive,6 and help one be better equipped to look and respond to
things around. Also, considering the number of myths around international
law, we really hope this course will give us a good time to both learn and
“unlearn” things about it.

To that end, this course is a modest start. The course introduces the basic
understanding of public international law, focusing on nature, sources, and
subjects of international law, and touches upon concepts of state
sovereignty, state recognition, jurisdiction, state responsibility and state
succession. While doing this, it attempts to introduce and critique some of
the principles that supposedly form the bedrock of modern international
law: such as equal rights and self- determination of peoples; sovereign
equality of states; non-use of force; peaceful settlement of disputes; non-
intervention; good faith etc. Towards the later part of the course, the course
also aims to cover dispute settlement mechanisms which includes
diplomatic means of dispute settlement as well as judicial means. It also
attempts to introduce other international tribunals and courts.

5 Luis Eslava, Public International Law – Syllabus available at:

https://www.academia.edu/8220302/Public_International_Law_Syllabus.
6 A wider focus could have indeed been better but as Antony Anghie (Critical Pedagogy
Symposium: Critical Thinking and Teaching as Common Sense—Random Reflections
available at: http://opiniojuris.org/2020/08/31/critical-pedagogy-symposium-critical-
thinking-and-teaching-as-common-sense-random-reflections/), and Ata R Hindi (A
Palestinian Perspective on Teaching International Law, available at: https://twailr.com/a-
palestinian-perspective-on-teaching-international-law/) point out – there has to be some
balance between cannon and critique. This is just a start, and some chipping away has been
made possible. As Christine Schwobel-Patel says, “Decolonising is a process and we will
never have a 'finished' product” (See,
https://twitter.com/CSchwobelPatel/status/1317053712733536256). Hopefully, we will
make more changes as we move along.

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Though interspersed through the modules, in the concluding week the

course aims to actively reflect on the critical study of international law that
actively breaks from reading international law that has conditioned
imperialism, patriarchy, capitalism, and other forms of hegemony into it. 7

b. Course Aims

By the end of the course students should be able to:

● Understand and apply the sources of public international law.

● Understand the nature of the international legal system, actors in the
international legal system and the concept of international legal
personality.
● Understand and apply methods, theories and doctrines of
traditional/mainstream interpretations of PIL and be aware of the
critiques advanced by Third World Approaches to International Law
(TWAIL), feminist critiques and other CLS lenses.
● Understand how PIL operates in practice. That is, how it is applied in
litigation and in legal opinions provided to States, international
organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
● Have a working knowledge of the relationship between PIL and the
domestic legal systems, in particular, the Indian legal system
● Understand the manner in which disputes between States can be
resolved peacefully within the framework of PIL
● Have knowledge of the jurisdiction and selected jurisprudence of the
International Court of Justice and other relevant international courts and
tribunals
● Apply PIL to current affairs – particularly ones closer home, and develop
critical awareness on how such affairs impact international law 8;

c. Intended Learning Outcomes

Intended Learning Weight Teaching and Assessment

Outcomes Learning Tasks/ Activities
Activities

7 See, International Law and Current Affairs Syllabus by Christine Schwöbel-Patel available
at:
https://www.academia.edu/30732582/INTERNATIONAL_LAW_IN_CURRENT_AFFAIRS_syll
abus_2018
8 Under extraordinary circumstances, the JGU Academic Council or the JGU Deans’
Council can suspend Clause D or make it optional. If Clause D is suspended, the policy
which will be framed by the School based on the decision of the said bodies will
supersede Clause D. However, whether a situation is extraordinary or not will be decided
by the said bodies only.

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Analytically and critically 50% Reading of End-of-course

describe and explain relevant course examination (50%
important legal concepts, materials and of marks)
doctrines associated with cases in
different streams of addition to
public international law involving Internal 50% will
especially the topics to themselves in be decided for
be covered in the research each section by
syllabus. the faculty
concerned
Students will
acquire
knowledge on Students’ ability
public to describe,
international explain and apply
law in general. the general
Particularly principles of
gain familiarity international Law
with doctrines/ to the given
concepts factual situation
associated with will be tested by
different assessment
streams of tasks/activities.
public
international
law covered in
the syllabus
through:

1. Lectures

Students will be
given guidance
on their reading
and research
for their
lectures and
tutorials.

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2. Discussions
and
Assignments

Students will,
by responding
to questions
and performing
exercises,
develop their
analytical and
critical
capabilities to
discuss
important
issues on Public
International
Law.

Analyse and critically Variable Lectures Same as above.

evaluate fundamental weight
Students will be
issues and concerns in (at
introduced to
the field of public faculty
issues and
international law discretio
concerns and
n, for
aspects of
each
Public
The competing section
International
entitlements available in taught)
Law
international law-

● the emergence of
new concepts and Assignments
their implications and
in relation to Preparation for
change in the theses:
content of law
Assignments
● the new will be weaved

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jurisprudential in ways where

thinking on the students
social roots of scrutinise,
International Law analyse and
evaluate issues
and concerns in
the field of
Public
International
Law.

Apply different aspects of Variable Lectures Same as above

international law to weight
Students will be
contemporary problems (at
shown how
by: faculty
legal problems
discretio
can be
n, for
approached
● researching issues each
from various
in international section
rules of
law; taught)
international
● analysing and law by citing
innovating to appropriate
resolve problems case laws and
concerning issues conduct of
in international States.
law; and

● communicating
Assignments
their solutions
and
orally and in
Preparation for
writing clearly,
theses:
coherently, and
accurately. Assignments
will be weaved
in ways to
attain the
outcome.

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d. Grading of Student Achievement 9,10

To pass this course, students must obtain a minimum of 40% in the

cumulative aspects of coursework, for example, moot, and final
examination. End of semester exam will carry 50 marks out of which
students have to obtain a minimum of 15 marks to fulfil the
requirement of passing the course.

The details of the grades as well as the criteria for awarding such grades
are provided below.

Lette
Grad Percentage
r
e Grade Definitions
Grad Of marks
Value
e

Outstanding work with

strong evidence of
knowledge of the subject
matter, excellent
Outstandi
O 8 80% and above organizational capacity,
ng
ability to synthesize and
critically analyse and
originality in thinking and
presentation.

A+ 7.5 75 to 79.75% Excellent Sound knowledge of the

subject matter, thorough
understanding of issues;
9 Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the Office of Academic Affairs may suggest
changes/amendments or suspend certain policies relating to the number of assessments
and other examination related policies.

10 A Conversation with Luis Eslava: International Law and Everyday Life (Part I, II, and III)
available at: https://internationallawandtheglobalsouth.com/a-conversation-with-luis-eslava-
international-law-and-everyday-life-part-i-of-iii/; Also see, ASIL, International Law: 100
ways it shapes our lives (2018) available at:
https://www.asil.org/sites/default/files/100Ways/100Ways.pdf.
For instance, see concerns by Prabhakar Singh, Foreword in, Swati Singh Parma

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ability to synthesize
critically and analyse

Good understanding of the

subject matter, ability to
identify issues and provide
A 7 70 to 74.75% Good
balanced solutions to
problems and good critical
and analytical skills.

Adequate knowledge of the

subject matter to go to the
A- 6 65 to 69.75% Adequate next level of study and
reasonable critical and
analytical skills.

Limited knowledge of the

subject matter, irrelevant
B+ 5 60 to 64.75% Marginal
use of materials and poor
critical and analytical skills.

Poor comprehension of the

subject matter; poor critical
B 4 55 to 59.75% Poor and analytical skills and
marginal use of the relevant
materials.

“Pass” in a pass-fail course.

“P” indicative of at least the
B- 3 50 to 54.75% Pass
basic understanding of the
subject matter.

Pass 1: Pass with Basic

P1 2 45 to 49% Pass 1 understanding of the
subject matter.

Pass 2: Pass
with Rudimentary
P2 1 40 to 44% Pass 2
understanding of the
subject matter.

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Fail: Poor comprehension

of the subject matter; poor
critical and analytical skills
F 0 Below 40% Fail and marginal use of the
relevant materials. Will
require repeating the
course.

NEW COURSE LETTER GRADES AND THEIR INTERPRETATION

Percentag
Letter Grade
e of Interpretation
Grade Points
Marks

Pass 1: Pass with Basic understanding of

P1 45 - 49 2
the subject matter.

Pass2: Pass with Rudimentary

P2 40 - 44 1
understanding of the subject matter.

Fail: Poor comprehension of the subject

matter; poor critical and analytical skills
F Below 40 0 and marginal use of the relevant
materials. Will require repeating the
course.

‘P’ represents the option of choosing

between Pass/Fail grading system over
the CGPA grading system in the COVID
19 semester in Spring 2020. The option
P Pass
is provided when students attain a
minimum of 40 percentage marks under
the current grading structure in a given
subject.

I Incomplete Extenuating circumstances preventing

the student from completing coursework
assessment, or taking the examination;
or where the Assessment Panel at its
discretion assigns this grade. If
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an "I" grade is assigned, the Assessment

Panel will suggest a schedule for the
completion of work, or a supplementary
examination.

PART - III

a. Keyword Syllabus

International Law, Public International Law, International Legal Theory, Critical

Approaches to International Law

b. Course/Class Policies

Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

Learning and knowledge production of any kind is a collaborative process.

Collaboration demands an ethical responsibility to acknowledge who we
have learnt from, what we have learnt, and how reading and learning from
others have helped us shape our own ideas. Even our own ideas demand an
acknowledgement of the sources and processes through which those ideas
have emerged. Thus, all ideas must be supported by citations. All ideas
borrowed from articles, books, journals, magazines, case laws, statutes,
photographs, films, paintings, etc., in print or online, must be credited with
the original source. If the source or inspiration of your idea is a friend, a
casual chat, something that you overheard, or heard being discussed at a
conference or in class, even they must be duly credited. If you paraphrase
or directly quote from a web source in the examination, presentation or
essays, the source must be acknowledged. The university has a framework
to deal with cases of plagiarism. All forms of plagiarism will be taken
seriously by the University and prescribed sanctions will be imposed on
those who commit plagiarism.

Disability Support and Accommodation Requirements

JGU endeavors to make all its courses accessible to students. All students
with any known disability needing academic accommodation are required to

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register with the Disability Support Committee [email protected]. The

Committee has so far identified the following conditions that could possibly
hinder student’s overall well-being. These include: physical and mobility
related difficulties; visual impairment; hearing impairment; medical
conditions; specific learning difficulties e.g. dyslexia; mental health.

The Disability Support Committee maintains strict confidentiality on the

matters under its purview. Students should preferably register with the
Committee during the month of June/January as disability accommodation
requires early planning. DSC will coordinate all disability related services
such as appointment of academic mentors, arranging infrastructural
facilities, and course related requirements such as special lectures, tutorials
and examinations.

All faculty members are requested to refer students with any of the above-
mentioned conditions to the Disability Support Committee for getting them
disability-related accommodation. Faculty members are also requested to be
sensitive to the needs of such students and cooperate with Disability
Support Committee and the School, extending students the necessary
support by maintaining utmost confidentiality of the matter

Safe Space Pledge

This course may discuss a range of issues and events that might result in
distress for some students. Discussions in the course might also provoke
strong emotional responses. To make sure that all students collectively
benefit from the course, and do not feel disturbed due to either the content
of the course or the conduct of the discussions. Therefore, it is incumbent
upon all within the classroom to pledge to maintain respect towards our
peers. This does not mean that you need to feel restrained about what you
feel and what you want to say. Conversely, this is about creating a safe
space where everyone can speak and learn without inhibitions and fear.
This responsibility lies not only with students, but also with the instructor.

P.S. The course instructor, as part of introducing the course manual, will
discuss the scope of the Safe Space Pledge with the class.

Policies around attendance, teaching plan and methodology, internal

assessments, office hours, use of gadgets etc. will be set by the faculty
teaching the relevant section.

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PART - IV

WEEKLY COURSE OUTLINE WITH READINGS

Week Topic and Description Reading Materials

1 Introduction to Basic reading:

International Law

● Jan Klabbers, International Law, Cambridge

• Initial questions (2013), Chapter 1 - “The Setting of
International Law”
• What does public
international law ● Charter of the United Nations, 1945, Articles
cover? (the inside 1, 2
and the outside)
● Declaration on Principles of International Law
• Why “public”? Why concerning Friendly Relations and Co-
“international”? operation among States in accordance with
the Charter of the United Nations, 1970,
• Is it law? What are United Nations General Assembly Resolution
the main 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970.
characteristics of the
normative structure?

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• Why should we care Recommended readings and sources:

about international
law?
● Rohini Sen, International Law in Indian Law
• What all does it
Schools - What remains invisible? (December
touch? & Who all
2020) available at:
does it touch?
http://rsrr.in/2020/12/24/international-law-in-
• Who makes the law? indian-law-schools/#_ftnref23
How does it work?
● Anthony Anghie, History, and International
• Questions about the Law (December 2016),
nature & development https://legal.un.org/avl/ls/Anghie_IL.html
of International Law
● Monica Hakimi, Why Should We Care About
• Basic introduction and International Law?, 118 Mich. L. Rev. 1283
critique to common (2020) available at:
principles: equal rights https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol118/is
and self- determination s6/17
of peoples; sovereign
● HLA Hart, The Concept of Law, Chapter- X,
equality of states; non-
pp. 208-31 (Also see, Mehrdad Payandeh, The
use of force; peaceful
Concept of International Law in the
settlement of disputes;
Jurisprudence of H.L.A. Hart, European
non-intervention; good
Journal of International Law, Volume 21,
faith; co-operation.
Issue 4, November 2010, Pages 967–995,
https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chq065)

2 Sources of International Basic readings:

Law - I

● Brief overview: Christopher Greenwood,

● Overview of various ‘Sources of International Law: An
sources of international Introduction’ (2008) unpublished LSE notes,
law pages 1-5

● Treaties ● Alain Pellet, ‘Article 38’ in The Statute of the

International Court of Justice: A
○ Definition Commentary (eds. A. Zimmermann, C.
Tomuschat and K. Oellers-Frahm), Oxford,

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○ Conclusion 2006, p. 735 - 792

○ Treaty-making ● Anthony D’Amato’s lecture on ‘Sources of

international law’
○ Signature https://legal.un.org/avl/ls/D-Amato_IL.html
○ Ratification

○ Accession Treaty provisions and cases:

○ Reservations

○ Grounds for ● Statute of the International Court of Justice,

challenging Article 38(1)

○ Pacta sunt servanda ● Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

1969, available at:
○ Termination http://legal.un.org/avl/ha/vclt/vclt.html

● Treaty Handbook, United Nations (Reprinted

2006) available at:
https://treaties.un.org/doc/source/publicatio
ns/THB/English.pdf

● Reservations to the Convention on the

Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide, ICJ Advisory Opinion, 1951 (pages
4-19)

● Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Project
(Hungary/Slovakia), ICJ Judgment of 25
September 1997 (On termination, paras 89-
115)

3 Sources of International Basic readings:

Law- II

● Brief overview: Christopher Greenwood,

● Customary international ‘Sources of International Law: An
law Introduction’ (2008) unpublished LSE notes,
pages 1-5
○ Two elements - state

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practice and opinio ● Gleider Hernandez, International Law (2nd

juris ed), Chapter 2 - Sources of International law
(p. 31-44)
○ How to identify the
elements? ● Alain Pellet, ‘Article 38’ in The Statute of the
International Court of Justice: A
○ Persistent objector Commentary (eds. A. Zimmermann, C.
○ Regional/local custom Tomuschat and K. Oellers-Frahm), Oxford,
2006, p. 735-792

Cases and Opinions:

● The Case of the S.S. “Lotus” (France v

Turkey), PCIJ, 1927 (page 28)

● Military and Paramilitary Activities in and

against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United
States of America), Merits, Judgment, 1986
pp. 97-102,108-109 (paras. 183-190, 193,
207).

● North Sea Continental Shelf Cases

(Netherlands/Germany)
(Denmark/Germany), 1969, pp. 41-47 (paras.
70-80, 81, 85). [Also see, Proclamation 2667,
of September 28, 1945: Policy of the United
States with Respect to the Natural
Resources of the Subsoil and the Seabed of
the Continental Shelf:
https://www.gc.noaa.gov/documents/gcil_pro
c_2667.pdf]

● Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear

Weapons, Advisory Opinion ICJ 1996 (paras
65 to 73; along with Dissenting Opinion of
Judge Weeramantry)

● Right of Passage over Indian Territory

(Portugal v. India), Judgment of 12 April

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1960 (pages 39-40, along with Dissenting

Opinion of Judge M.C. Chagla, pages 119-
120)

● Asylum Case (Colombia v. Peru), 1950

(pages 276-278)

Recommended readings and sources:

● ILC Draft conclusions on identification of

customary international law with
commentaries, 2018:
https://legal.un.org/docs/?path=../ilc/texts/in
struments/english/commentaries/
1_13_2018.pdf&lang=EF

● First Report (April 2019) & Second Report

(June 2020) ILC Reports on General
Principles of International Law:
https://legal.un.org/ilc/guide/1_15.shtml

● Michael P Scharf, Customary International

Law in Times of Fundamental Change:
Recognizing Grotian Moments, Chapter 3:
Theoretical Underpinnings (eds 2013)

● Anthony D'Amato, Trashing Customary

International Law, The American Journal of
International Law, Vol. 81, No. 1 (January,
1987), pp. 101-105

● B. S. Chimni, ‘Customary International Law:

A Third World Perspective’, American
Journal of International Law, Volume 112,
Issue 1, February 2004, Pages 1–46

● David Kennedy, ‘The Sources of

International Law’ American University
International Law Review 2(1) (1987): 1-96

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available at:
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/aui
lr/vol2/iss1/1/

4 Sources of International Basic readings:

Law - III

● General Principles of
● Brief overview: Christopher Greenwood,
Law
‘Sources of International Law: An
● Judicial Decisions Introduction’ (2008) unpublished LSE notes,
pages 1-5
● Resolutions of
International ● Gleider Hernandez, International Law (2nd
Organizations ed)

● Jus cogens & erga o Chapter 2 - Sources of International law

omnes (p. 46-57)

● Hierarchy of Sources o Chapter 3 - Hierarchy of norms in

international law (58-77)

Cases:

● Barcelona Traction, Light and Power

Company Case, 1970 ICJ (case summary and
paras 3 & 33-35) [on erga omnes]

● Application of the Convention on the

Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide (The Gambia v Myanmar), Order of
January 2020 (paras 39- 42; also see
Separate Opinion of Judge Xue paras 4-6)
[on erga omnes partes]

● Application of the Convention on the

Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v.

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Israel), Order of 26 January 2024 (paras 33-

34; also see Declaration of Judge Xue para 4)
[on erga omnes partes]

Recommended readings and sources:

● Hugo Thirlway, Specialities: Jus Cogens,

Obligations Erga Omnes, Soft Law, in The
Sources of International Law (2nd ed 2019)

5 International Legal Basic Readings:

Personality - I

● James Crawford, ‘State’, Max Planck

● Subjects of Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]
International Law

● States as Traditional
Treaties and Resolutions:
International Legal
Persons

● Statehood ● Montevideo Convention on the Rights and

Duties of States, 1933
● State Sovereignty
● UN General Assembly Resolution 67/19 on
● State Recognition
the Question of Palestine (29 November
2012)

● UN Security Council, Official Records (Third

Year; No. 128; 2 December 1948) -
discussion on Israel’s membership to the
UN, pages 8-14 (Jessup’s submission)

Suggested case study:

● The Pint sized Nation of the English Coast:

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https://www.theatlantic.com/international/ar
chive/2019/08/sealand-outlaw-ocean-tiniest-
nation/596074/

Recommended readings and sources:

● Security Council debate on membership of

Israel to the UN:
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/637527/fi
les/S_PV-383-EN.pdf (item 3)

● Arbitration Commission of the Conference

on Yugoslavia - Opinion 1, 2, 4 10:
http://www.pf.uni-lj.si/media/skrk_mnenja.ba
dinterjeve.arbitrazne.komisije.1_.10.pdf

● Matthew Craven, and Rose Parfitt,

Statehood, Self-Determination and
Recognition available at:
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/132197302.
pdf

6 International Legal Basic Readings:

Personality - II

● International ● James Crawford, Brownlie's Principles of

Organizations Public International Law (9th Edition),
Chapter 7 – International Organisations.
○ Definition
● Rosanna van Alebeek, ‘Diplomatic Immunity’
○ Rights and duties of Max Planck Encyclopedias of International
IO under Law (MPIL) (link)
international law

● Diplomatic immunity
Treaties and Cases:

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● Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the

Service of the United Nations, ICJ Advisory
Opinion, April 1949

● UN Charter, Articles 104 and 105

● General Convention on the Privileges and

Immunities of the United Nations, Article 1

● Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,

Articles 22, 23, 27, 29, 31, 34

Suggested Case Study:

● UN Concedes Role in Haiti Cholera Crisis,

The Daily Beast, August 17, 2016
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/0
8/17/u-n-admits-to-role-in-haiti-cholera-
outbreak.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl

● Yale Law School’s Transnational

Development Clinic’s report on
“Peacekeeping without Accountability: The
United Nations’ responsibility for the
Haitian cholera epidemic”, Executive
Summary, pages 1-5

● Dapo Akande on the Devyani Khobragade

incident, Part 1 (link) and Part 3 (link),
EJIL:Talk

● Fabia Veçoso, ‘International Law, Diplomatic

Immunity and Julian Assange’ Pursuit:
University of Melbourne, available at
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/intern
ational-law-diplomatic-asylum-and-julian-
assange

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Recommended readings and sources:

● Article CVIII, of the Final Act of the

Congress of Vienna, 1815

● Central Commission for the Navigation of

the Rhine, Leaflet:
https://ccnr.eu/files/communication/flyerCC
NR2016_en.pdf

● Dapo Akande, ‘Ecuador Seeks to Confer

Diplomatic Status on Julian Assange: Does
this Oblige the UK to Allow Him to Leave the
Embassy & Is the Matter Headed to the ICJ?’
EJIL: Talk available
athttps://www.ejiltalk.org/does-ecuadors-
appointment-of-julian-assange-oblige-the-uk-
to-allow-him-to-leave-the-embassy-and-is-
the-matter-headed-to-the-icj/

● United States of America v. Devyani

Khobragade (Indictment), United States
District Court, Southern District of New
York
<https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/u
sao-sdny/legacy/2015/03/25/Khobragade
%2C%20Devyani%20Indictment.pdf>

● Anne Peters, Novel practice of the Security

Council: Wildlife poaching and trafficking as
a threat to the peace, February 2014
available at: http://www.ejiltalk.org/novel-
practice-of-the-security-council-wildlife-
poaching- and-trafficking-as-a-threat-to-the-
peace/

● Fleur Johns, Theorizing the Corporation in

International Law, in A. Orford, A. and F.
Hoffmann, The Oxford Handbook of the

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Theory of International Law (OUP, 2016)

7-8 Self-determination Basic Readings:

● Internal self- ● Victor Kattan, Self-determination as

determination ideology: The Cold War, the end of empire,
and the making of UN General Assembly
● External self- Resolution 1514 (14 December 1960)
determination available at:
● Remedial secession http://victorkattan.com/work/self-
determination-as-ideology/

● International Human Rights Law: Cases,

Materials, Commentary by Olivier De
Schutter, Chapter 7, part 5 (3rd eds)

Cases, Opinions, Treaty provisions, and

Resolutions:

● UN Charter Article 1, Chapters XI-XIII

● Common Article 1 to ICCPR and ICESCR,

and Human Rights Council, General
Comment 12

● UNGA Res 1514, 1541, 1803 and 2625

● Vienna Declaration and Action for

Programme, 1993 available at:
https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalintere
st/pages/vienna.aspx

● United Nations Declaration on the Rights of

Indigenous Peoples, 2007 available at:
https://www.un.org/development/desa/indige
nouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-

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indigenous-peoples.html

● Legal Consequences for States of the

Continued Presence of South Africa in
Namibia (South-West Africa)
Notwithstanding Security Council Resolution
276 (1970), Advisory Opinion of 21 June
1971, (para 52)

● Accordance with International Law of the

Unilateral Declaration of Independence in
Respect of Kosovo, ICJ Advisory Opinion of
22 July 2010 (case summary along with
Separate Opinion Judge Yusuf, para 16)

● Legal Consequences of the Construction of a

Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
2004 (paras, 88, 119 to 122, and 159)

● Legal Consequences of the Separation of the

Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965,
Advisory Opinion of 25 February 2019
(paras 132-182)

● Supreme Court of Canada – Reference re

Secession of Quebec

● St UNGA request from 19 January 2023

(public hearing on 19 February 2024)

Suggested Case Studies:

● The Legal Status of Palestine

o Victor Kattan, A critical assessment of the

Government of Israel’s memorandum to
the ICC (January 2020) – Part I (available
at: https://www.ejiltalk.org/a-critical-
assessment-of-the-government-of-israels-
memorandum-to-the-icc-part-i/)and Part II

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(https://www.ejiltalk.org/a-critical-
assessment-of-the-government-of-israels-
memorandum-to-the-icc-part-ii)

o Victor Kattan, Muddying the Waters: A

Reply to Kay and Kern on the Statehood of
Palestine and the ICC – Part I, Part II and
Muddying the Waters Still Further: A
Response to Steven Kay and Joshua Kern,
August 2020 available at:
http://opiniojuris.org/author/victor-kattan/

● Bougainville Explained: How the world’s

newest country might bloom out of protests
against a copper mine:
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/b
ougainville-explained-how-the-worlds-
newest-country-might-bloom-out-of-protests-
against-a-copper-mine-6132284/

Recommended readings and sources:

● Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh, Acknowledging

the ‘question of self-determination’ that
OHCHR Kashmir report raises will be path-
breaking, June 2018 available at:
https://www.theleaflet.in/acknowledging-the-
question-of-kashmiri-self-determination-
ohchr-report-path-breaking/

● Matthew Craven, and Rose Parfitt,

Statehood, Self-Determination and
Recognition available at:
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/132197302.
pdf

● Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance

in Western Sahara | Documentary available
at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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v=9QzRzm4uFxU

● Vasuki Nesiah, Placing International Law:

White Spaces on a Map (Leiden Journal of
International Law2003) available at:
https://www.academia.edu/6937435/Placing_
International_Law_White_Spaces_on_a_Map

● Bangladesh: See, Ved P. Nanda, Self-

Determination in International Law: The
Tragic Tale of Two Cities--Islamabad (West
Pakistan) and Dacca (East Pakistan), The
American Journal of International Law Vol.
66, No. 2 (Apr., 1972), pp. 321-336.

● Tibet: Surya P Subedi, 'The Right of Self-

determination and the Tibetan People' in
Dino. Kritsiosis (ed), Self-determination:
Cases of Crisis

9 Settlement of Basic Readings:

International Disputes -
International Court of
Justice ● Basis of the Court’s jurisdiction:
● Jurisdiction of the ICJ https://www.icj-cij.org/basis-of-jurisdiction

○ Contentious
jurisdiction Cases, Opinions, Treaty provisions, and other
material:
○ Advisory jurisdiction

● UN Charter: Articles 2(3), 33, 36-38, 92, 94,

96

● Statute of the International Court of Justice:

Articles 34, 36

● UN General Assembly Resolution 49/75K:

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/193267?

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ln=en or
https://www.icj-cij.org/public/files/case-
related/95/7646.pdf

● Norwegian Loans Case: official summary

● Nicaragua vs USA: focus on the Jurisdiction

phase

o Jurisdiction Phase

o Nicaragua’s optional clause declaration,

1929

o President Truman’s Optional Clause

Declaration, 1948

o George Shultz Amendment, 1984

Recommended readings and sources:

● John Collier & Vaughan Lowe, The

Settlement of Disputes in International Law:
Institutions & Procedures, Oxford University
Press (2000), Chapter 7, 8

10 Use of Force & Law of Basic Readings:

Armed Conflict:

● International Law Association Final Report

● Jus ad bellum on Use of Force (2018) available at
https://www.ila-hq.org/images/ILA/DraftRep
● International law
orts/DraftReport_UseOfForce.pdf
governing prohibition of
use of force ● Dapo Akande, Prohibition and Exception:
https://legal.un.org/avl/ls/Akande_PS.html
● Exceptions to
(both lectures)
Prohibition

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○ Self-defence: ● Adil Ahmad Haque, The United Nations

necessity and Charter at 75: Between Force and Self-
proportionality Defense — Part One and Part Two (June
2020) available at:
○ Individual and https://www.justsecurity.org/70985/the-
collective self-defence united-nations-charter-at-75-between-force-
○ Attack by non-state and-self-defense-part-one/ and
https://www.justsecurity.org/70987/the-
actors and right to
united-nations-charter-at-75-between-force-
self-defence
and-self-defense-part-two/
○ Pre-emptive and
anticipatory self-
defence

○ Humanitarian Treaty provisions, Resolutions, relevant Cases and

intervention incidents:
○ R2P doctrine

● UN Charter: Article 2, and Chapter VII

● UNGA Resolution 2625

● UNSC Resolutions 217, 253, 660, 661, 678,

1368 and 1973

● Caroline incident of 1837, Communications

available at:
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/br-
1842d.asp

● Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear

Weapons, Advisory Opinion ICJ 1996 (case
summary, and para 41-42, 47)

● Military and Paramilitary Activities in

Nicaragua (Merits), ICJ 1986 (paras 187-
201, 227-238)

● Oil Platforms (Iran v USA), ICJ 2003 (paras

50-77)

● Armed Activities on the Territory of the

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Congo (DRC v. Uganda), ICJ 2005 (case

summary and para 143)

● Legal Consequences of the Construction of a

Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
Advisory Opinion ICJ 2004 (paras 138-141;
also see summary of the separate opinion of
Judge Koogimans, Koroma and Higgins, and
Declaration of Judge Buergenthal)

● Report of the Independent Commission on

Intervention and State Sovereignty, The
Responsibility to Protect, 2001, Chapters 1,
2, and 4

Recommended readings and sources:

● Chatham House: Principles of International

Law on the Use of Force by States in Self
Defence, 2005 available at:
https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/
files/publications/research/2005-10-01-use-
force-states-self-defence-wilmshurst.pdf

● Adil Ahmad Haque, Self-Defense Against

Non-State Actors: All Over the Map -
Insights from UN Security Council Arria-
Formula Meeting, March 2021, available at:
https://www.justsecurity.org/75487/self-
defense-against-non-state-actors-all-over-
the-map/

● Anne Orford, What kind of law is this? Libya

and International Law, March 2011
available at:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/march/what
-kind-of-law-is-this

● Claus Kress, On the Principle of Non-Use of

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Force in Current International Law,

September 2019 available at:
https://www.justsecurity.org/66372/on-the-
principle-of-non-use-of-force-in-current-
international-law/

11 State Responsibility Basic Readings:

● General Principles ● James Crawford, State Responsibility, Max

Planck Encyclopedias of International Law
● Acts giving rise to State (link)
Responsibility:
● Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for
○ Conduct Internationally Wrongful Acts, with
○ Attribution commentaries 2001:
https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english
○ Breach /commentaries/9_6_2001.pdf

● Circumstances
precluding
Cases and incidents:
wrongfulness

● Obligations resulting
from wrongful conduct ● United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff
in Tehran (United States of America v. Iran)
● Countermeasures
ICJ
(Chapter II, ARSIWA)
o Provisional measures (15 December
1979)

o Judgment on jurisdiction (24 May 1980)

12 State Jurisdiction Basic Readings:

● Prescriptive and
Enforcement
● James Crawford, 'State Jurisdiction', in
Jurisdiction
James Crawford (ed) Brownlie's Principles of

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● Principles of Jurisdiction Public International Law (9th ed, OUP)

○ Territoriality

○ Active Personality Cases:

○ Passive Personality

○ Protective ● Nottebohm (Liechtenstein v. Guatemala), ICJ

○ Universal ● The case of S.S. “Lotus” (France v. Turkey)

PCIJ.

● Corfu Channel case (UK v Albania), ICJ 1949

● Enrica Lexie Award, PCA and Republic of

Italy and Ors. v Republic of India and Ors.,
Judgment of the Supreme Court of India,
dated 18 January 2013

Recommended readings and sources:

● Article 5, United Nations Convention against

Torture, 1985

● Treaty of Canterbury (Channel Tunnel

treaty), 1991

● Article VI, Convention on the Prevention and

Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948

● Valeria Eboli & Jean Paul Pierini, The

“Enrica Lexie Case” and the Limits of the
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction of India, (2012)
Online Working Paper 2012/n.39 at
<http://www.cde.unict.it/sites/default/files/3
9_2012.pdf>

● The Adolf Eichmann Story:

o Attorney General v. Adolf Eichmann,

District Court of Jerusalem, Criminal

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Case No. 40/61, December 1961 available

at:
https://www.asser.nl/upload/documents/D
omCLIC/Docs/NLP/Israel/Eichmann_Judg
ement_11-12-1961.pdf

o Letter from Argentina to UNSC in 1960

regarding the arrest of Adolf Eichman by
Isareli Mossad:
https://www.un.org/en/sc/repertoire/59-
63/Chapter%208/59-63_08-7-Complaint
%20by%20Argentina.pdf

● The story of John Demjanjuk:

o State of Israel v Demjanjuk, Supreme

Court of Israel, Israel, Case no. 347/88,
1993 available at:
http://www.internationalcrimesdatabase.o
rg/Case/191/Demjanjuk/

o The Devil Next Door (available on Netflix)

● Princeton University Program in Law and

Public Affairs, The Princeton Principles on
Universal Jurisdiction 28 (2001) available at:
http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/instree/princeton.ht
ml.

● Lockerbie Incident and questions regarding

jurisdiction, Related - US v Libya, ICJ
Preliminary Objections

13 Interaction between Basic Readings:

International Law &
Domestic Law

● Monist System ● Lavanya Rajamani, International law and the

Constitutional Schema in Oxford Handbook
● Dualist System of the Indian Constitution (Eds. Sujit
Choudhry, Madhav Khosla, and Pratap
● Implementation of

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international law into Bhanu Mehta, 2016)

Indian law
● Aparna Chandra, India and international
law: formal dualism, functional monism,
Indian Journal of International Law (2017)

● Constitution of India, Articles 51(c), 53, 73,

273

Suggested Case Study:

● Mohammad Salimullah v. Union of India, W.

P. (C) NO. 793 OF 2017

Recommended readings and sources:

● See sources from other Asian contexts from

TRILA Database of Asian Cases and Reading
Materials available at: pages 28-41, 47-53.

● Gutierrez, Carlos Jose, “Conflict between

Domestic and International Law,” The
American University Law Review, Vol. 30:
147

● Maganbhai Ishwarbhai Patel vs. Union of

India (1970) Supreme Court Cases 400

● B.S. Chimni, ‘India’, in The Oxford

Handbook of International Law in Asia and
the Pacific (Eds. Simon Chesterman, Hisashi
Owada, Ben Saul, 2019)

14 Critiques of Basic Readings:

International Law

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● Third World Approaches ● Luis Eslava, TWAIL Coordinates (2019),

to International Law https://grojil.org/2019/04/01/twail-
coordinates/
● Feminist Critiques of
International Law ● James Thuo Gathii, The Promise of
International Law: A Third World View (June
● Introduction to other
25, 2020), Grotius Lecture Presented at the
critical approaches
2020 Virtual Annual Meeting of the
American Society of International Law,
Available at SSRN available at: The Promise
of International Law: A Third World View
by ...papers.ssrn.com › sol3 › papers. Or
hear at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=neGcxJgRogE

● Mohsen Al Attar, Out of Place? Being Anti-

Colonial in Law School, June 2021 available
at: http://opiniojuris.org/2021/06/25/out-of-
place-being-anti-colonial-in-law-school/.

● Vasuki Nesiah, ‘The Ground Beneath Her

Feet: “Third World" Feminisms’ Journal of
International Women's Studies (2003) 4(3),
30-38.

Recommended readings and sources:

● Makau Mutua, Critical Race Theory and

International Law: The View of an Insider-
Outsider, 45 Vill. L. Rev. 841 (2000)
available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/vlr/
vol45/iss5/2

● Rosa Brooks, “Feminism and International

Law: An Opportunity for Transformation.”
Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 14 (2002):
345-361.

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● P.Weil, ‘Towards Relative Normativity in

International Law’

15 Review & Revision

A word of caution on online readings

Online sources can be classified into reliable, unreliable and outright bogus.
The Internet is an open domain in which all and sundry can create web
pages and indulge in propaganda, falsification or misrepresentation of
events. The few sources that can help you with basic information and which
are fairly unbiased are: websites of established newspapers, magazines and
journals. Students should always consult with the instructors about the
veracity and authenticity of a particular web site and its suitability for
researching topics covered in this syllabus.

Textbook

There is no prescribed textbook for the course, and one is expected to rely
on the suggested readings above.
11
students at JGLS
(and at many law schools in India and in South Asia) have relied on
If at all, despite concerns with writing in any textbook, students at JGLS (and at many law schools in India and i

However, S students may rely on:

● Jan Klabbers, International Law, Cambridge (2013)

● Malcolm D. Evans, International Law, Oxford (2003)

Useful Internet Links

- http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/intro.html
- http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/summaries/summaries.htm
- http://ials.sas.ac.uk/flare/flare.htm
- http://www.un.org/law/riaa/
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- http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/
- http://www.mpepil.com/
- http://www.asil.org/

Useful blogs
www.https://ilg2.org
http://opiniojuris.org
https://www.ejiltalk.org
https://www.justsecurity.org
https://twailr.com

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