ORGANIZZAZIONE E COOPERAZIONE INTERNAZIONALI
- Overview
- Assessment methods
- Learning objectives
- Contents
- Delivery method
- Teaching methods
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Students must have passed the exams of Private Law, Constitutional Law and International Law.
Final exam is an oral discussion consisting of 2 questions with final mark expressed in thirtieth. The oral discussion relates to the whole program.
The following will be evaluated:
- accuracy and quality of answers;
- use of appropriate technical-legal language;
- capacity of connecting the different topics covered during the course;
- critical and personal analysis of the current legal issues discussed in class.
The course aims to examine the most important international organisation (the United Nations, UN) and other forms of international cooperation between States.
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- know and understand the main principles of international organisations, including the maintenance of international peace and security;
- analyse the structure and functioning of the UN and other international organisations;
- know and understand the various forms of international cooperation;
- develop an indipendent critical judgement on current issues and apply the law of international organisations and cooperation to concrete cases.
Introduction
- historical evolution of international organisations and the various forms of cooperation between states
- soft law organisations
- notion and common characteristics of international organisations
- criteria for classifying international organisations
- non-governmental organisations
General part
- international and domestic legal personality of international organisations
- responsibility of international organisations for international wrongful acts: focus on the responsibility of the UN for the spread of cholera in Haiti and on the responsibility of the World Health Organisation in the management of the Covid-19 pandemic
- acts of international organisations
- structure of international organisations
- immunities and privileges of international organisations
- financing of international organisations
Special part
The UN
- objectives and general principles
- interpretation and the procedure for the amendment and the revision of the UN Charter
- international and internal legal personality
- membership and special status
- main and subsidiary organs
- maintenance of international peace and security
- protection of human rights
- protection of the environment and combating climate change
- cooperation on sustainable development
Regional international organisations with a political and security vocation
- NATO
- Council of Europe
- Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Focus: the responses of the UN and other international organisations to the ongoing conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and between Israel and Palestine
Other forms of international cooperation between states
- health cooperation
- maritime cooperation
- trade and financial cooperation
- customs cooperation
- judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters
- cooperation on disarmament and arms control
The course takes place in the first semester on the Microsoft Teams platform and consists in 50 hours lessons. Teaching includes
- the use of power-point presentations;
- the critical analysis and discussion, with the active participation of students, of case-law and current issues.
All links to the lectures and materials (power-point presentations, legislation and case-law) will be available for download on the e-learning platform. Subscribtion to the e-learning platform is therefore highly recommended.
Students will be received by appointment (rebekka.monico@uninsubria.it) via the Microsoft Teams platform.