Topic:Public international law
Welcome to the Depatment of Public International Law, within the School of Law.
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Department Description [edit]
This department contains learning resources that will allow Wikiversity participants to consider the issues surrounding laws applicable between states (and governments), regulating areas such as human rights, international conflicts, international criminal law, etc.
Public International Law (PIL) should be distinguished from Domestic Law (i.e. the law within a single state) and from Private International Law (i.e. the law regulating activities between people, companies or / states that occurs across international borders).
[This Department is also be a department of the School of Politics > International Relations.]
Department News [edit]
- Department founded 7 September 2006.
Learning Projects [edit]
See: Learning Projects and the Wikiversity:Learning model.
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Learning materials and learning projects can be used by multiple departments. Cooperate with other departments that use the same learning resource.
- What is Public International Law? - Where does it come from (sources)? Who / what is bound by it (subjects and personality)? What does it do (remit)? How is is different from Private International Law, Regional Law (e.g. EU Law), and Domestic Law (i.e. law within a state)?
- Statehood and personality - What is a state? How are they created? How can they end? What status do they have - what rights and duties? And are there alternative forms of 'personality' within PIL?
- Jurisdiction and Remedies - Where are international legal disputes resolved? Are their decisions binding? What remedies are available?
- Constitutional and International Law Papers
- International Human Rights Law - Theory and philosophical foundations of Human Rights, the obligations of States under Human Rights Law, substantive rights (generations of rights), the Universal System for the protection of Human Rights (UN System), the Regional Systems for the protection of Human Rights (Inter-American, European, African).
- International Humanitarian Law - The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and its protocols, Customary International Humanitarian Law.
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Degree plans [edit]
See: Degree plan
Streams [edit]
See: Stream plan
Active participants [edit]
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