Session 1: Introduction to International Law

Content of the session: 

-        Principles of Public International Law

-        Sources of International Law

-        Actors in International Law

COMPULSORY READING:

Jan Klabbers: INTERNATIONAL LAW

-        Article 38 ICJ (pp. 27-28)

-        Treaties (pp. 28-29)

-        Customary Law (pp 29-31)

-        Accepted as Law (pp. 31-32)

-        The method of custom: The Paquete Habana (pp. 32-33)

-        Consent and the persistent objector (pp. 33-34)

-        A normative problem, or towards modern custom (pp.34-35)

-        On law-breaking and law-making (pp. 35-36)

-        General principle of law (pp. 37-38)

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-        Heffron and Talus_The development of energy law in 21st century