Public University of Navarre



Academic year: 2024/2025 | Previous academic years:  2023/2024  |  2022/2023  |  2021/2022  |  2020/2021 
Double Bachelor's degree in Management, Business Administration and Law (international program) at the Universidad Pública de Navarra
Course code: 177403 Subject title: PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Credits: 6 Type of subject: Mandatory Year: 2 Period: 2º S
Department: Derecho
Lecturers:
OLIVAR DE JULIAN, JOSÉ MANUEL   [Mentoring ] PLAZA VENTURA, PATRICIA (Resp)   [Mentoring ]

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Module/Subject matter

BASIC / LAW

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Contents

International Legislation. Sources of International Law. Subjects of International Law. Regulation of spaces of domestic and international competence.

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General proficiencies

Not applicable.

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Specific proficiencies

Not applicable.

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Learning outcomes

LO5. To know and understand the relations between different countries, treaties and general principles of International Law, the structure and operation of the European Union, the legal sources of European Union Law, and the mechanisms for protecting Community Law.

LO19. To search, select and manage the Law sources applicable to a specific situation.

LO20. To solve legal issues through the application and interpretation of Law sources.

LO22. To identify the legal issues of the current social context.

RA24. To examine and summarise essential issues, mostly within the legal scope.

LO30. To organise and plan work efficiently, applying the acquired social and organisational skills.

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Methodology

Methodology - Activity On-site classes Students¿ autonomous work
A-1 Lectures 45  
A-2 Practical classes 13  
A-6 Preparation of papers and presentations   15
A-3 Autonomous study   75
A-7 Exams, evaluation tests 2  
     
Total 60 90

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Evaluation

 

Learning
outcome		 Assessment
activity		 Weight (%) It allows
test resit 		Minimum
required grade
R125, R120, E103, R101 Weekly practicals 10 % No  
R170, R101, R125 Practical assessments 30 % Yes (An extraquestion/test to answer with the final exam)  
R101, R170, R120, R103 Final exam 60 % Yes A grade lower than 2.5 out of 6 points, in the ordinary/extraordinary exam, implies NOT passig the course. In this case, the final grade for the course, which will be obtained from the sum of continuous assessment grades + ordinary/extraordinary exam grade, may not exceed 4.9 out of 10 points (Fail).

 

 

 

 

 

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Agenda

LESSON 1: INTRODUCTION

  1. Definition
  2. Nature and Characteristics of International Law
  3. The Development of International Law

LESSON 2: LAW OF TREATIES

  1. Sources of International Law
  2. Definition of a Treaty
  3. Treaty-Making Competence
  4. Observance and Application of Treaties
  5. Treaty Interpretation
  6. Third States
  7. Amendments and Modifications
  8. Validity of Treaties
  9. Termination of a Treaty
  10. Consequences of Invalidity, Termination or Suspension
  11. Treaties in Spain

LESSON 3: OTHER SOURCES

  1. Customary Law
  2. General Principles of Law
  3. Judicial Decisions, Writers and Equity
  4. Other Possible Sources

LESSON 4: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND MUNICIPAL LAW

  1. Relations between International Law and Municipal Law
  2. International Responsibility

LESSON 5: INTERNATIONAL PERSONALITY

  1. Diversity in International Personality
  2. Other ¿Entities¿

LESSON 6: STATES: TERRITORY

  1. Defined Territory of a State.
  2. Occupation
  3. Prescription
  4. Conquest
  5. Cession
  6. Accretion and Avulsion

LESSON 7: STATES: POPULATION

  1. Nationals
  2. Aliens
  3. Refugees
  4. Stateless

LESSON 8: STATES: SOVEREIGNTY

  1. The Concept of Sovereignty
  2. Immunity from Jurisdiction
  3. Recognition of States and Governments
  4. State Succession

LESSON 9: DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR RELATIONS

  1. Diplomatic Relations
  2. Consular Relations
  3. Special Missions

LESSON 10: INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

  1. International Organisations in general
  2. United Nations

LESSON 11: PEOPLES

  1. Principle of Nationalities
  2. Self-Determination

LESSON 12: INDIVIDUALS

  1. Legal Personality of Individuals
  2. United Nations Protection of Human Rights
  3. European Protection of Human Rights

LESSON 13: THE LAW OF THE SEA: SPACES OF STATE COMPETENCE

  1. The Law of the Sea Evolution
  2. Internal Waters
  3. Territorial Sea
  4. Contiguous Zone
  5. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
  6. Continental Shelf

LESSON 14: THE LAW OF THE SEA: SPACES OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETENCE

  1. High Seas
  2. Deep Seabed

LESSON 15: AIR SPACE, OUTERSPACE AND POLAR REGIONS

  1. Airspace
  2. Outer Space
  3. Arctic
  4. Antarctica

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Bibliography

Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.


Basic and compulsory bibliography.

Wallace, Rebecca / Martín-Ortega, Olga (2020): International Law, London: Sweet&Maxwell.

Complementary bibliography.

Saw, Malcolm (2021): International Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Public International Law, Kaczorowska-Ireland, Alina.
Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Languages

English

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Location

Aulario.

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