1 PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW EXAM NOTES PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW EXAM NOTES ...................................................................................................................1 NATURE, DEVELOPMENT & STRUCTURE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (wk 01) ..................................................3 Nature Of International Law: ................................................................................................................................................3 The Enforcement Problem .....................................................................................................................................................3 Positivism ......................................................................................................................................................................................3 Introduction to the United Nations.....................................................................................................................................4 International Court of Justice (ICJ) .....................................................................................................................................6 Five methods of conferral (in depth) .................................................................................................................................6 International Law Commission ............................................................................................................................................9 SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (WK02) ................................................................................................................. 11 Statute of the International Court of Justice ................................................................................................................ 11 Formal & Material Sources .................................................................................................................................................. 11 Treaties ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 12 Custom ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Elements Of CIL ........................................................................................................................................................................ 16 1. STATE PRACTICE (objective element) ...................................................................................................................... 16 2. OPINIO JURIS (subjective element) ............................................................................................................................. 19 UN General Assembly Resolutions and Custom ......................................................................................................... 20 THE LAW OF TREATIES (Wk03 & Wk04) ......................................................................................................................... 23 Elements of a Treaty .............................................................................................................................................................. 23 Exclusions from VCLT............................................................................................................................................................ 25 Conclusion of Treaties ........................................................................................................................................................... 25 Consent to be Bound .............................................................................................................................................................. 25 Ratification ................................................................................................................................................................................. 26 Entry into Force ....................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Reservations .............................................................................................................................................................................. 26 Incompatibility with object and purpose........................................................................................................................... 28 Article 21 - Legal effects of reservations and of objections to reservations....................................... 28 Article 22 - Withdrawal of reservations and of objections to reservations ....................................... 29 Article 23 - Procedure regarding reservations ................................................................................................... 29 Invalidity of Treaties .............................................................................................................................................................. 30 Termination ............................................................................................................................................................................... 31 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL & MUNICIPAL LAW ............................................................. 33 Monism v Dualism................................................................................................................................................................... 33
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