Schedule

• Introduction to sources of international law.

• General Principles of Law.

• Judgments discussing Different concepts recognised as general principles.

• Customs.

• Difference between usage and customs.

• Legal Value of Customs.

• Judicial decisions discussing customs as a source of law.

• Monism

• Dualism

• Harmonization Theory

• British, American and Indian practice of application of International Law at the Municipal Level.

• Duty of state to not intervene in the affairs of another state;

• Reasons for intervention and effects of intervention on the international community;

• Classification of intervention;

• Instances of intervention.

• Diplomatic Immunity

• Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity

• Envoys and Ambassadors

• Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961

• The Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (Tokyo Convention)

• Decisions relating to state responsibility

• Injuries and corresponding liability unconnected with contractual obligations

• Acts of government agencies and Attributability

• Acts of private parties and Attributability

• Delegation of government power and Attributability

• Protection of citizens abroad

• Exhaustion of local remedies as a pre-requisite to state responsibility

• Discussion of the case of Saddam Hussain's annexation of Quwait.

• Fault Theory in state responsibility

• Claims of victims in case of state responsibility

• Circumstances where local remedies are not effective

• Assessment of damages

• The General Assembly

- Composition

- Voting Rights and Patterns

• Powers and Functions of The General Assembly

- Important Conventions and Resolutions

- Quasi Legislative Competence

- Promotion of International Peace and Security

- Certain Expenses Case

- Peace Observer Commission

- Interim Committee of the General Assembly

- Powers of Appointment

• The Economic and Social Council

- Historical Background

- Purpose and object

- Composition, Powers and Functions

- Criticism

• History of the Convention of Law of Treaties

• State Practice regarding Law of Treaties

• What is a Treaty?

• Scope of Vienna Convention on Law of Treaties

• Status of International Treaties in Municipal Jurisdictions

• Third Party Treaty Obligations

• Forms of Treaties

- Between Heads of states

- Between Governments

- Between States

- Between Department of the state

- Between Ministries of the Government

• Is it necessary for treaties to be in written form?

- Eastern Greenland Case, 1932

- Nuclear Test Case

• Terminologies used under Law of Treaties

- Convention

- Procès - Verbal

- Declarations

- Modus Vivendi

- Exchange of notes

• Parties to the Treaties

• Treaty Obligations

• Treaties Crafting Universal Rules of International Law

• Negotiation and Signing of Treaties

• Ratification of Treaties

• Inadequacy of the Geneva Convention on Law of Seas, 1958 to deal with new issues.

• North Sea Continental Shelf case and the development of the equitable principles

• Seabed and Arms Control Treaty, 1971

• Third Conference on the Law of Seas, 1982

• United Nations Convention on Law of Seas, 1982

• Provisions relating to United Nations Convention on Law of Seas, 1982

- Measurement of the territorial sea

- Internal Waters

- Freedom of Innocent Passage

- Jurisdiction of Coastal States over Territorial Water

- Contiguous Zone

- Sanitary Provision

- Exclusive Economic Zone

- Doctrine of Hot Pursuit

- Exploration and Exploitation of Sea Resources

- High Seas

- Freedoms relating to the High Seas

- Piracy

- Continental Shelf

- International Seabed Authority

- Law of the Seas Tribunal

- Conservation of Marine Resources