Public International Law

Code:

MD121

Acronym:

DIP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Law

Instance: 2019/2020 - 1S (since 16-09-2019 to 20-12-2019)

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Law

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MD	23	Plano Oficial MD do ano letivo 2016	1	-	7,5	-

Last updated on 2019-08-29.

Fields changed: Objectives, Resultados de aprendizagem e competências, Métodos de ensino e atividades de aprendizagem, Fórmula de cálculo da classificação final, Bibliografia Obrigatória, Obtenção de frequência, Programa, Tipo de avaliação, Componentes de Avaliação e Ocupação, Melhoria de classificação

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course aims to cover three specific areas of public international law and international relations: global governance, the multilateral trade system and international criminal law.

Learning outcomes and competences

Stronger knowledge of these core issues of Public International Law, and a greater capacity for understanding some of the most central issues of contemporary international relations.

Working method

Presencial

Program

PART I - THE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE SYSTEM

1 - The UN: objectives, principles and organization.

2 - The collective safety system on both intenational (UN) and regional (NATO) levels, and the challenges ahead.

3 - Constitutionalism on a global scale.

4 - The role of G7 and G20. Economic governance through OECD, IMF and the World Bank: objectives and institutional issues.

5 - Relations between the world's great blocks: USA, EU and Japan. The rising of new powers: Russia, China, and also India and Brazil

PART II - THE MULTILATERAL TRADE SYSTEM

1. Introduction: justifications for trade liberalization and for trade restrictions; the mechanisms of a nation's external trade policy; brief explanation of the historic evolution of the internatinal economic order.

2. The core principles of the GATT/WTO system: the most-favoured nation clause; the national treatment; the tarrif-only protection; the progressive lowering of tariffs; the protection of competition: the rules on subsidies and dumping

3. Some exception and conflict areas: regional trade agreements; economic safeguards; the aid to economic development; the "grey zones": social, environmental, safety and human rights issues.

4. The dispute resolution mechanism: evolution; critical analysis of the current rules; the core issue of compensation; the WTO's mandate for resolving disputes within the "grey zones".

PART III - INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW

1. International Criminal Law and Criminal International Law.
2. The Rome Statute (1998) and the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
2.1. Origins and importance.
2.2. General principles of the Statute.
2.3. Special problems of spatial criminal law application.
2.4. Analysis of the main criminal offences and its penal consequences.
2.5. The Statute's transposition to the Portuguese criminal law.
2.6. Articulation problems of the Statute with the national cooperation law on criminal matters (Law nr. 144/99, August 31st).
2.7. Brief reference to the European arrest warrant.

Mandatory literature

Maria do Céu Pinto; As Nações Unidas e os Desafios da Governação Global, Letras Itinerantes, 2014
Rui Medeiros; A Constituição Portuguesa num contexto global, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2015
Peter Van den Bossche; The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization: Text, Cases and Materials, 4ª ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017
Mitsuo Matsushita, Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Petros C. Mavroidis, Michael Hahn; The World Trade Organization: Law, Practice, and Policy , 3ª ed., Oxford International Law Library, 2017
Manfred Elsig; Assessing the World Trade Organization: Fit for Purpose?, Cambridge University Press, 2018
João Silva Miguel; O^ tribunal penal internacional e a transformação do direito internacional. ISBN: 0871-0336
Vital Moreira; O^Tribunal Penal Internacional e a ordem jurídica portuguesa. ISBN: 972-32-1238-2
Wladimir Brito; Estatuto de Roma do Tribunal Penal Internacional. ISBN: 978-989-54032-5-7
Antonio Cassese; The^Rome statute of the International Criminal Court. ISBN: 0-19-829862-5
Otto Triffterer; Commentary on the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court. ISBN: 3-7890-6173-5

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical/practical lectures, frequently using the applicable international treaties and jurisprudence.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	50,00
Frequência das aulas	50,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

According to applicable rules.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam mark.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to applicable rules.

Classification improvement

According to applicable rules.

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