Unit
- Course
- Law
- Study-unit Code
- A004730
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Simone Vezzani
- Teachers
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- Simone Vezzani
- Hours
- 72 ore - Simone Vezzani
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Internazionalistico
- Academic discipline
- IUS/13
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- English
- Contents
- The objective of the Course is the development of the students’ understanding and knowledge of international law on the main subject-matters of the discipline. The special part will focus and the international law of the sea and on international environmental law.
- Reference texts
- Non-attending students may choose between the two following options: 1) GAETA, VINUALES, ZAPPALA, Cassese's International Law, Oxord University Press, 2020. or 2) TANZI, A Concise Introduction to International Law, Giappichelli, 2025; and VEZZANI, Jurisdiction in International Fisheries Law. Evolcing Trends and New Challenges, Wolters Kluwer, 2020, chapters I, II and V.
- Educational objectives
- Acquisition of knowledge of the origins and foundations of the international community, its subjects, international law-making and normative interactions, and implementation of international law. Selected contemporry issues in international law will be tackled, including in the field of international environmental and maritime law.
- Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand and to know how to tackle the course, it is advisable to have some basic notions of Constitutional law.
- Teaching methods
- FACE-TO-FACE AND SEMINARS
- Other information
- Students attending the course can make a presentation in the classroom. For those interested (including non-attending students), a test of autoevaluation will be organized before the end of the course.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam consists in an oral test, i.e. an interview about the topics included in the programme (lasting approximately 15 minutes), aiming to ascertain the knowledge level and the understanding capability acquired by the student on the topics included in the programme. Attending students, if so desire, can make a speech, which will be taken into consideration in the final evaluation.
- Extended program
- INTRODUCTION - Historical evolution and main legal features of the international community - Fundamental principles governing international relations. SUBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW -States as subjects of international law - Immunities of States and State officials - International organizations - Individuals and other legal subjects. SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW - Elements and identification of custom - The law of treaties - General principles of law - Other law-making processes - Normative interactions and hirarchy of norms. STATE RESPONSIBILITY AND PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES - Elements of the internationally wrongful acts and its consequences - Diplomatic and judicial means of dispute settlement. CONTEMOPRARY ISSUES - The Role of the United Nations - Collective security and use of armed force - Protection of human rights THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIROMENT - Main principles of international environmental law - International biodiversity law - Conemporary regulation of environmental challenges LAW OF THE SEA - Codification of the law of the sea - Jurisdition of the coastal states over different marine areas - Jurisdiction of the flag State - The BBNJ agreement
- Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- The course tackles many topics relating to sustainbale development, with specific regards to DSGs 1,2,10,13,16 and 17.