Public International Law

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“The course is common to all tracks of the Master in Globalisation and Law. It thus aims to provide students with the knowledge of international law necessary to understand the content of the three tracks of the Master’s Programme (Human Rights; Corporate and Commercial Law; and International Trade and Investment Law). The course focuses on the foundations and key conceptual principles of international law (e.g. the sources of law, the law-making process, participants in the international legal system and the nature of international legal obligations). Students thus learn what international law can and cannot regulate; who has the capacity to breach international law; where an international legal obligation is derived from and when is it breached. This course is conceptual in nature and is not primarily concerned with substantive subfields of international law, such as international trade law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law and international human rights law law. Such subfields of international law are covered elsewhere in the curriculum. In order to understand them properly, a thorough grounding in public international law is needed and this is what this course seeks to achieve.”