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Learning Objectives

Chapter 1

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify aspects of international law.
• Describe the various visions of international politics.
• Explain why states obey international law.
• Identify extralegal factors that promote compliance.

Chapter 2

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify the origins of international law.
• Identify the role of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages.
• Describe the basis of natural law.
• Explain how to conduct military operations and their legal consequences.
• Describe the origins of modern international law.
• Name the primary reason for war during the period of Westphalia.
• Specify the monarchs' chief fear after the Napoleonic Wars.
• Describe the force that increased trade and contact among the states.
• Identify the support for international law after World War II.
• Define the idea of collective security.

Chapter 3

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify important features of international treaties and conventions.
• Describe the influence of international custom as a source of law.
• Identify resolutions and declarations of international organizations.

Chapter 4

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify different types of international agreements.
• Explain the validity of a treaty.
• Describe the formation of treaties.
• Identify special problems with respect to international agreements.
• Describe the relationship between treaty validation and international law.

Chapter 5

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Explain government to government negotiations.
• Identify the features of sanctions and centralized enforcement.

Chapter 6

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Explain the difference between monism and dualism.
• Identify the applications of international law.
• Describe the features of civil code states with respect to the application of international law.

Chapter 7

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Describe the community of nations.
• Identify the international judicial personality.
• Explain the contemporary practice of state recognition.
• Explain the concept of state succession.

Chapter 8

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Describe the traditional views of rights and duties.
• Identify the rights of states.
• Identify the rights of existence and independence.
• Identify the right of equality.
• Identify the right of immunity.
• Explain the concept of state immunity.
• Identify an act of state doctrine.
• Explain the rights of international organizations.
• Explain the duties of states.

Chapter 9

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Explain the meaning of nationality.
• Identify aspects of the right of the state to confer nationality.

Chapter 10

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Explain the principles of international jurisdiction.
• Identify problems with the extradition process.
• Identify common elements of extradition treaties.

Chapter 11

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify circumstances precluding wrongfulness.
• Describe the case of the Rainbow Warrior.
• Identify the role and function of mixed claims commissions.
• Identify the responsibilities of states for the actions of rebels.

Chapter 12

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Describe lawmaking at the international level.
• Describe the general principles of the Law of the Sea.
• Identify the major maritime boundaries.
• Identify jurisdiction on the High Seas.
• Identify the "Global Commons".

Chapter 13

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify aspects of jurisdictional airspace.
• Describe the relationship between hijacking and air jurisdiction.
• Identify jurisdictional authority over telecommunications.
• Explain the development of outer space jurisdiction.

Chapter 14

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify aspects of diplomatic agents and agencies.
• Describe the privileges and immunities of diplomats.
• Identify the privileges and immunities of agents of international organizations.
• Explain the role and function of consular agents.

Chapter 15

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify restrictions on the jurisdiction of states over their nationals.
• Explain the theory and practice of human rights law.
• Identify the role of the United Nations regarding human rights.
• Explain the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
• Explain the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.
• Identify other Human Rights instruments.
• Describe the implementation of human rights conventions.
• Identify the role of the Human Rights Council.
• Describe regional Human Rights initiatives.
• Explain Human Rights and territorial asylum.

Chapter 16

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify crimes against humanity.
• Describe piracy as an international criminal act.
• Explain the motives of peacetime hostage taking.
• Describe the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism.

Chapter 17

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify the advantages and disadvantages to adjudication.
• Identify the features of international adjudication.
• Explain arbitration with respect to international law.
• Identify the merits of judicial settlement.

Chapter 18

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify aspects of the environment and international law.
• Identify the limits of the liability/traditional law framework.
• Describe the relationship between regimes and environmental law.
• Describe organizations and regimes with respect to environmental law.
• Identify the results of the Earth Summit.
• Describe the relationship between treaties and protection of the environment.

Chapter 19

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify the relationship between economic theory and economic law.
• Describe the effects of the World I and the Great Depression on international economic law.
• Describe the relationship between modern economic theory and political economy.
• Describe the Bretton Woods System.
• Explain the role and function of the International Money Fund.
• Identify the features of the The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
• Identify the role and function of The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency.

Chapter 20

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Explain the definitions of war.
• Identify pre-charter attempts to regulate the use of force.
• Describe the Unted Nations' use of force.
• Explain the use of force with respect to terrorism.

Chapter 21

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Explain the laws of war.
• Identify the early development of the Law of War.
• Describe the Law of Noninternational Wars.
• Identify the role of Prisoners of War under international humanitarian law.
• Describe efforts to limit the means of war.
• Describe the relationship between international humanitarian law and belligerent occupation.
• Identify the role and function of AP-I.
• Explain the rules of conflict in the air.
• Explain humanitarian law with respect to naval warfare.

Chapter 22

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Describe the role of the Commission of Fifteen.
• Identify the role of the Leipzig trials with respect to war crimes.
• Identify the role of the Constantinople trials with respect to war crimes.
• Describe the influence of the Nuremburg Trials.
• Describe the influence of the Tokyo War Crimes Trials.
• Identify the nature of warcimes trials by national tribunals.
• Describe the aftermath of Nuremburg with respect to war crimes trials.
• Identify the war crimes courts' structure and organization.
• Explain the role and function of the The International Criminal Court.