ID:
L0444
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
DIRITTO INTERNAZIONALE
Url:
LINGUISTIC MEDIATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION/CORSO GENERICO Year: 3
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 15/01/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course contributes to the achievement of the educational objectives of the degree programme in LANGUAGE MEDIATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION (L/12).
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: the course aims to enable students to understand the content of the fundamental rules of international law and the related terminology and technical tools, while providing them with the tools they need to acquire the correct methodology for studying the subject.
At the end of the course, students will be able to understand the structure of the international legal system, the principles and acts of international law.
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: this knowledge will enable students to apply international law in their potential careers.
Course Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Classroom lessons: the course is structured in 36 hours of lessons divided into 2 weekly lessons lasting 2 hours each.
Teaching consists of theoretical lessons.
Seminars: learning assessments may be offered to students to assess their learning and understanding of the topics covered, to be carried out in the classroom, based on a number of practical cases that will be discussed during the lessons.
Attendance at classes is optional but recommended.
Assessment Methods
The final exam is oral. The exam is the same for both attending and non-attending students.
The grade is out of thirty.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
a) KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: describe the history, structure, principles, acts and their application relating to international law; analyse the fundamental aspects of international law acts; illustrate the interaction between international law and domestic law.
b) ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: independent judgement; ability to connect institutional and substantive aspects of international law.
Texts
SUGGESTED TEXTBOOK:
B. CONFORTI, M. IOVANE, Diritto Internazionale, XII edizione con aggiornamenti, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2023 (IIntroduction: all. Part One: all. Part Two: selected paragraphs only. Part Three: selected paragraphs only)
AUXILIARY TEXTS TO BE CONSULTED (Only acts and articles that will be indicated):
R. LUZZATTO - F. POCAR - F.C. VILLATA, Codice di diritto internazionale pubblico, VIII ed., Giappichelli, Torino, 2020.
Treaty on European Union.
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
Italian Constitution.
Contents
INTRODUCTION - Definition of international law. Terminological clarifications - Summary overview of the functions of production, assessment and enforcement of international law - The State as a subject of international law. Other subjects and presumed subjects
THE FORMATION OF INTERNATIONAL RULES - General international law. International customary law and its constitutive elements - General principles of law recognised by civilised nations and general principles of international law - Other presumed unwritten general rules. Equity - Absence of written general rules. Codification of international customary law - Declarations of principles by the UN General Assembly - Treaties. Formation procedure and competence to conclude - Ineffectiveness of treaties with respect to third States. Incompatibility between treaty rules - Reservations in treaties - Interpretation of treaties - Succession of States in treaties - Causes of invalidity and extinction of treaties - Sources provided for in treaties. The phenomenon of international organisations. The United Nations - Specialised agencies of the United Nations. Other international organisations of a universal nature. Technical decisions of international “bodies” - The European Union and EU law - The OECD and the Council of Europe - Recommendations of international bodies - The hierarchy of international sources. Binding international law. The unitary nature of the international legal system
THE CONTENT OF INTERNATIONAL RULES - The punishment of international crimes committed by individuals - The treatment of foreigners
THE APPLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL RULES WITHIN THE STATE - The adaptation of State law to international law - Adaptation to international customary law - Adaptation to treaties and sources originating from treaties
Course Language
Teaching language: Italian
More information
E-mail: ferdinando.franceschelli@unich.it
Student receiving hours are scheduled on the days and times indicated on the professor's page: /www.dsgs.unich.it/home-franceschelli-ferdinando-1308>
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LINGUISTIC MEDIATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Bachelor’s Degree
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