PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL

LAW SY 2017-2018

Nature of International
Law
Theories

Command/Positivism
Consensual Natural Law Public
vs. Private International Law

1987
Constitution
Section 2, Article II
Section 21, Article VII
Section 5, Article VIII
Section 18 (7), Article
XIII Section 25, Article
XVIII

Sources of International
Law
Formal vs.
Material

Article 38 and 59 - Statute of the International Court of

Justice

Customary
Law
State Practice Opinio
Juris Sive Necessitatis

Persistent Objector
Rule

Treaties Vis-à-vis

Customary Law
Article 53 – Vienna Convention on the Law of
Treaties
Jus
 Cogens
Jus
Dispositivum
Erga
Omnes

General Principles of Law Judicial Decisions

Teachings of Highly Qualified Writers and
Publicists Equity

Other
Sources
Soft Law vs. Hard
Law Unilateral
Actions

The Paquete Habana [175 U.S. 677

(1900)] North Sea Continental Shelf Cases
[1969 I.C.J. 1] The Asylum Case [1950
I.C.J. 6] Nicaragua vs. US [1986 I.C.J. 1]

Right of Passage over Indian Territory [1960

I.C.J. 6] Anglo Norweigan Fisheries[1951 I.C.J.
3]

Mijares vs. Ranada [G.R. No. 139325, 12 April

2005]

Kuroda v. Jalandoni [G.R. No. L-2662, 26 March

1949]

Diversion of the Water from the Meuse

(1937)

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Pharmaceutical and Health Care Association of the Philippines vs. Duque III [G.R. No. 173034,
9 October 2007]
ANG LADLAD LGBT Party vs. COMELEC [G.R. No. 190582, 8
April 2010]
 Nuclear Test Cases [1974 I.C.J. 253] Province of North Cotabato vs. GRP
Peace Panel [G.R. No. 183591, 14 October 2008]

Treatie
s
1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of
Treaties
Article 2 (a) to (d)
Article 15 –
Accession

Article 26 – Pacta Sunt

Servanda Article 46

Grounds for Invalidating a

Treaty Articles 48 to 53

Amendment vs.
Modification

Termination of
Treaties
Article 61 – Material Breach Article 62 –
Supervening Impossibility of Performance Article
63 – Rebus Sic Stantibus

1978 Vienna Convention on the Succession of States with Respect to

Treaties
Article 16 – Clean Slate
Rule
Article 11 – Uti
Possidetis

Quatar vs. Bahrain [I.C.J.

1994]

Nicolas vs. Romulo [G.R. No. 175888, 11 February

2009]
BAYAN vs. Zamora [G.R. No. 138570, 10
October 2000]

Saguisag vs. Ochoa [G.R. No. 212426, 12 January 2016 and 26

 July 2016]

Pimentel vs. Executive Secretary [G.R. No. 158088, 6

July 2005] Bayan Muna vs. Romulo [G.R. No. 159618, 1
February 2011]

China National Machinery & Equipment Corp. vs. Santamaria [G.R. No. 185572, 7
February 2012]

Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia (South
West Africa) [Advisory Opinion (1971)]
Fisheries Jurisdiction (United Kingdom vs. Iceland) [1973
I.C.J. 3] Danube Dam Case [1997 I.C.J. 7]

International Law and Municipal

Law
Dualism vs. Monism Municipal
Law in International Law
International Law in Domestic
Law
Transformation Doctrine
Incorporation Doctrine
Conflict
International
Rule Municipal
Rule

Lim vs. Executive Secretary [G.R. No. 151445, 11

April 2002]

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Subjects of International
Law
State
s

Article 1, Montevideo Convention of 1933 on Rights and Duties of

States

Existence
 Recognition of
States
Declaratory Theory
Constitutive Theory
Recognition of
Government Succession
of States Fundamental
Rights Incomplete
Subjects
Protectorates Federal State
Mandated and Trust
Territories

International Status of South West Africa [Advisory Opinion I.C.J.

(1950)]

Province of North Cotabato vs. GRP Peace Panel [G.R. No. 183591, 14
October 2008] Judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal

International
Organizations
United
Nations
Article 103 – Supremacy Clause Principal
Organs Insurgents National Liberation
Movements

Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict [1996

I.C.J. 66]

World Health Organization vs. Aquino [G.R. No. L-35131, 29 November 1972] International Catholic
Immigration Commission vs. Calleja [G.R. No. 85750, 28 September 1990] and Kapisanan ng mga
Manggagawa vs. Secretary of Labor and Employment [G.R. No. 89331, 28 September 1990]* Lasco
vs. United Nations Revolving Fund for Natural Resources Exploration [G.R. Nos. 109095-109107, 23
February 1995]
Kapisanan ng mga Manggagawa vs. International Rice Research Institute [G.R. No.
106483, 22 May 1995]*

Department of Foreign Affairs vs. NLRC [G.R. No. 113191, 18 September

1996] Liang (Huefeng) vs. People of the Philippines [G.R. No. 125865, 28
January 2000]
Concurring Opinion – J. Puno [26 March
2001]
 Individua
ls

Territory Modes of

Acquisition

Western Sahara Case [Advisory Opinion, I.C.J.

(1975)] Island of Palmas Case [2 U.N. R.I.A.A.
829]

Law of the
Sea
Baselines
Archipelagic
States
Straight Archipelagic
Baselines Archipelagic
Waters Archipelagic Sea
Lanes Passage

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Regime of Islands
Internal Waters
Territorial Sea
Exclusive Economic
Zone Continental Shelf
Extended Continental Shelf
International Tribunal of the Law of the
Sea

Republic Act No. 9522

Section 2, Republic Act No.
5446

Magallona vs. Ermita [G.R. No. 187167, 16 July 2011] In

the matter of the South China Sea Arbitration [P.C.A.
2013-19]

Jurisdiction of
States
Territorialit
y
Subjective vs. Objective
Principle

Article 27, UNCLOS Nationality

Principle and Statelessness
Protective Principle Universality
Principle Passive Personality
Principle

Conflict
s
Balancing Test
International Comity
Forum Non
Conveniens

Trail Smelter Case [R.I.A.A. 1938 and

1941]

Blackmer vs. United States [284 U.S. 421

(1932)]

Nottebohm Case [I.C.J. 1955] Mejoff vs. Director of Prisons

[G.R. No. L-4254, 26 September 1951]

United States vs. Yunis [681 F. Supp. 896,

(1988)]

People vs. Lol-lo [G.R. No. 17958, 27 February

1922]

Extraditi
on
Vis-à-vis Deportation Notice and Hearing Bail
Section 2(a) and 3(a) Presidential Decree No.
1069 Principle of Specialty

United States vs. Alvarez-Machain [504 U.S. 655

(1992)]**

Rodriguez vs. Presiding Judge of RTC of Manila [G.R. No. 157977, February
 27, 2006]
Secretary of Justice vs. Lantion [G.R. No. 139465, 17 October 2000]
Government of the U.S.A vs. Purganan [G.R. No. 148571, 24
September 2002]

Government of Hongkong – SAR vs. Olalia [G.R. No. 153675, 19 April

2007] Government of Hongkong – SAR vs. Muñoz [G.R. No. 207342,
16 August 2016]

Immunity from
Jurisdiction
Immunity of Head of
State

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State Immunity Basic Principles in
Diplomatic and Consular Law
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic
Relations Article 9 Article 31 Article 32

Sections 4, 5 and 7, Republic Act

No. 75

Vienna Convention on Consular Relations

Article 41 Article 43 Act of State Doctrine

Arigo vs. Swift [G.R. No. 206510, 16 September

2014]

United States of America vs. Guinto [G.R. No. 76607, 26 February

1990] Sanders vs. Veridiano [G.R. No. L-46930, 10 June 1988]
United States of America vs. Ruiz [G.R. No. L-35645, 22 May 1985]

Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Technische Zusammenarbeit vs. Court of Appeals [G.R. No.

152318, 16 April 2009]
Holy See vs. Rosario [G.R. No. 101949, 1
December 1994]

Minucher vs. Court of Appeals [G.R. No. 142396, 11 February

2011] The Republic of Indonesia vs. Vinzon [G.R. No. 154705,
26 June 2003]
 Case Concerning the United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran
[I.C.J. 1 (1980)]

PCGG vs. Sandiganbayan [G.R. No. 124772, 14

August 2007]

State
Responsibility
Protection of
Aliens Doctrine

The Corfu Channel Case, Judgment of 9th April 1949 [I.C.J. Reports p.
4 (1949)]

Case Concerning the United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran
[I.C.J. 1 (1980)]

Home Frontier and Foreign Missionary Society of the United Brethren in Christ
[R.I.A.A. (1920)]

Chorzow Factory Case [P.C.I.J.

(1928)]

International Human Rights

Law
Universal Declaration of Human Rights International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights International
Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

International Criminal
Court

Republic vs. Sandiganbayan [G.R. No. 104678, July

21, 2003]

Marcos vs. Manglapus [G.R. No. 88211, 15 September

1989]
Dissenting
Opinions

Peaceful Settlement of International

Disputes
Method
 s
Non-
judicial

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Quasi-
judicial
Judicial
International Court of
Justice
Contentious Jurisdiction
Parties Optional Clause
System Decisions
Article 59 – 61, Statute of the International Court of Justice Article
94, United Nations Charter Advisory Jurisdiction
Article 65, Statute of the International Court of
Justice Article 96, United Nations Charter

Use of
Force
Article 2(4), United Nations Charter
Article 51, United Nations Charter
Traditionally Allowable Coercive
Measures
Retorsion
Reprisal
Embargo
Boycott Non-
intercourse
Pacific
Blockade

Nicaragua vs. US [1986

I.C.J. 1]

International Humanitarian
Law
Categories of Armed
Conflicts International
Common Article 2, Geneva Conventions of 1949 Article 1(4), Additional
Protocol I of 1977 – War of National Liberation Internal/ Non-
 international
Common Article 3, Geneva Conventions of
1949 Article 1, Additional Protocol II of 1977

Republic Act No.

9851
Jurisdictio
n

International Environmental
Law
Section 16, Article II, 1987 Constitution Principle 21,
Stockholm Declaration – Good Neighborliness
Principle 15, Rio Declaration – Precautionary
Principle
-J. Leonen, Social Justice Society (SJS) Officers vs. Lim [G.R. No. 187836, 25
November 2014]

Resident Marine Mammals of the Protected Seascape Tanon Strait [G.R. No. 180771, 21
April 2015]

Trail Smelter Case [R.I.A.A. 1938 and

1941]