PUBLIC
INTERNATIONAL
LAW - II
Unit 1
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW - II
Unit I
a) State Responsibility - Nature and Kinds of State
responsibility and Municipal Law -Responsibility for
breach of Treaty - Contractual Obligation - Calvo Clause
- Stabilization Clause - General principles as to
protection of citizens aboard - Fault theory - claims and
damages.
b) Succession to rights and obligation - succession to
Public debts - succession to non-fiscal matters - Vienna
Convention of 1978 - Moving the frontiers rule - passing
off when internal changes of sovereignty occurs.
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Unit 2
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW - II
Unit II
a) The state and the individual - Nationality and
Citizenship – Dual Nationality and statelessness -
Nationality of married women and Multinational
Corporation – Extradition – Rendition – Asylum - Refugees
Asylum both territorial and extra territorial
b) Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms - UN
charter and Specialized agencies -Universal Declaration of
Human rights - European Convention for Protection of
Human Rights -International Convention for civil and
political rights - Covenant on Social, cultural and economic
rights – other conventions – Administering and 5
Unit II
c) International Economic Law – GATT – MIGA -
UNCITRAL laws - Most favored nation clause –
UNCTAD - Protection of Private foreign investments
- BCSID – International Finance Corporation -
Charter of economic rights and duties – NIEO -
Marrakech Declaration and WTO and its charter -
International Monetary law - GATT- IMF and World
Bank - (IBRO) - Reforms –Basel Committee - Bank
for international settlements - Agents of international
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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW - II
Unit III
a) Environment and International Law - Development and environment
- Protection and improvement of environment – GEMS – INFOTERRA -
UNEP and UN conference on human settlement at Vancouver 1976 -
Nairobi Declaration 1982 - UNCET 1992 (Rio declaration) -Kyoto
Protocol 1997 - Johannesburg World Summit 2002 - UNFEC 2007 – Bate
- action plan -Copenhagen Summit of 2009 - Dublin conference 2012 -
Nuclear safety and environment -Nuclear non-proliferation treaty 1968
(NPT) - The Role of International Atomic Energy Agency.
b) Law and practice as to Treaties - Vienna Convention on Law of
Treaties 1969 - importance of it - Vienna Convention on Law of Treaties
1986 deals with Treaties between States and international organization -
Pacta sunt servanda forms and terminology – Parties to Ratification –
Practice as to conclusion and entry into force - Conventions and treaties -
Validity of treaties -Termination and interpretation of treaties - Treaties 8
Unit 4
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW - II
Unit IV
a) Peaceful means of settlements – Arbitration - Permanent court of
Arbitration - Judicial settlement - International Court of Justice - Statute
of ICJ and compulsory jurisdiction - Advisory opinions of ICJ –
Negotiation – Mediation – Conciliation - Self Help or Coercive means of
settlement.
b) Laws of war and Armed Conflicts - International and non-international
armed conflicts -Security Council - General Assembly - Right to resort to
war - necessity in having new approach - effects of outbreak of war and of
armed conflicts - Combatants and non-combatants - Hague convention on
1907 - Law of war - International Humanitarian law - Customary
Humanitarian International Law - Geneva Convention - war crimes -
Rules of land, sea and air war fare - Law of belligerent of occupation of
enemy territory – mode of terminating the war and armed conflict –
neutrality- Quasi-neutrality and non –belligerent - Modern Warfare and 10
Unit 5
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW - II
Unit V
International Institutions - Legal and
Constitutional Structure – Legislative
functions -International Administrative
law - The United nations and its principal
organs - The relation between General
Assembly and Security Council - “Uniting
for Peace” resolutions - Specialized
agencies like ILO and related agencies.
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