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Course description of DROI-C-544 [version française]

Title

General Theory of Public International Law



Lecturer

Mme Anne LAGERWALL



Prerequisites

Droit international public/Public International Law



Objective

Provide a theoretical background that would enable students to better grasp the fundamental concepts and mechanisms of the international legal order



Contents

Positivism in public international law. How various schools of thought envisage the system of sources of international law, the types of relations between subjects of the international legal order, interpretation, and the relationship between law and ideology



Bibliography

Voir plan de cours/See course outline



Campus and term(s)

Campus du Solbosch, 2nd term



Teaching methods

Partly ex cathedra, partly seminar with discussion of specific topics (based on preparatory reading assignments)



Assessment

Partly based on notes to be produced by the students for the sminars, partly oral examination (comments on scholarly writings or on documents)



ECTS

total: 5 ECTS (théorie: 2, exercices: 1, travaux personnels: 2)

The ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credit is a measure of the student workload for each activity associated with a course. Conventionally, one ECTS credit represents 24h of work.


Course thaught in

Académie universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles:


DROI-C-544-A

DINT6-P: master complémentaire en droit international - année unique, option droit international public (compulsory)

DPUB6: master complémentaire en droit public et administratif - année unique (optional)





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