PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW

SECOND SEMESTER, ACADEMIC YEAR 2019-2020

Atty. Bryan A. San Juan

Magister Juris (Oxford)
Juris Doctor (UP)
Professor, Public International Law
School of Law
University of Makati
bryan.sanjuan@umak.edu.ph
bryan.sanjuan@gmail.com

I. Fundamental Concepts and Principles of Public International Law

a. Nature of International Law

b. Sources of International Law

c. Subjects of International Law

d. Jurisdiction of States

e. Relation of International Law and National Law

f. International Responsibility

Documents

Statute of the International Court of Justice

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

Articles

W.R. Bisschop. 1940. ‘Sources of International Law’, Transactions of the Grotius

Society, Vol. 26. (Cambridge University Press on behalf of the British Institute of
International and Comparative Law.

W. Czaplinski. 1989. ‘Source of International Law in the Nicaragua Case.’ The

International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 1 (January, 1989) pp. 151-
166

S. Chesterman. 2008. ‘An International Rule of Law?’. The American Journal of

Comparative Law, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Spring, 2008), pp. 331-361

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 P. Dumberry. 2010. ‘Incoherent and Ineffective: The Concept of Persistent Objector
Revisited’, The International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vo. 59, No. 3 (July
2010), pp. 779-802

Cases

Belgium v Spain - Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company, Limited (New
Application: 1962) - Judgment of 5 February 1970 - Second Phase - Judgments [1970]
ICJ 1; ICJ Reports 1970, p 3; [1970] ICJ Rep 3 (5 February 1970)

The  Island of Palmas Case (Scott, Hague Court Reports 2d 83 (1932), (Perm. Ct. Arb.
1928), 2 U.N. Rep. Intl. Arb. Awards 829)

Case Concerning Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua

(Nicaragua v. United States of America)

Federal Republic of Germany/Netherlands - North Sea Continental Shelf - Judgment of

20 February 1969 - Judgments [1969] ICJ 1; ICJ Reports 1969, p 3; [1969] ICJ Rep 3
(20 February 1969)

Colombia/Peru - Asylum - Judgment of 20 November 1950 - (including the declaration of

Judge Zoricic) - Judgments [1950] ICJ 6; ICJ Reports 1950, p 266; [1950] ICJ Rep 266
(20 November 1950)

International Status of South West Africa, Advisory Opinion, 1950 I.C.J. 128 (July 11)

II. The Law of the United Nations

Document

The Charter of the United Nations

Articles

N. Dorr. 2004. ‘A New World Order?: The Role of the UN in the International System.’
Irish Studied in International Affairs, Vol. 15 (2004), pp. 35-56

R. Liivoja. 2008. ‘The Scope of the Supremacy Clause of the United Nations Charter’.
The International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 57. No. 3 (July 2008)

K. Cronin-Furman. ‘The International Court of Justice and the United Nations Security
Council: Rethinking a Complicated Relationship. Columbia Law Review, Vol. 106, No. 2
(March 2006), pp. 435-463

C. Yatnoor. ‘Challenges to the United Nations in the New World Order’, The Indian
Journal of Political Science, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2006), pp. 695-704

Cases

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 UN Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations (Advisory
Opinion)

Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia
(South West Africa) notwithstanding Security Council Resolution 276 (1970)

United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran (United States of America v.
Iran)

Case Concerning Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua

(Nicaragua v. United States of America)

Certain Expenses of the United Nations (Article 17, Paragraph 2, of the Charter),
Advisory Opinion, 1962 I.C.J. 151 (July 20)

III. The Law of Treaties

Document

SALES- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

Cases

BADONG- Case of the S.S. "Wimbledon", Britain et al. v. Germany, (1923) PCIJ Series
A01 

SALES-Legal Status of Eastern Greenland (Norway v. Denmark) Court of Int’l Justice,

1993 P.C.I.J. (ser. A/B) No. 53 at 71

BADONG-Competence of the General Assembly for the Admission of a State to the U.N.,
Advisory Opinion, 1950 I.C.J. 5 (Mar. 3)

SALES- Competence of the Int’l Labour Org. in regard to Int’l Regulation of Conditions
of Labour of Persons Employed in Agriculture, Advisory Opinion, 1922 P.C.I.J. (ser. B)
No. 2 (Aug. 12)

BADONG- Case concerning Rights of Nationals of the United States in Morocco, France
v United States, Judgment, Merits, [1952] ICJ Rep 176, ICGJ 193 (ICJ 1952), 27th
August 1952, International Court of Justice [ICJ]

SALES- Greece v United Kingdom - Ambatielos - Judgment of 1 July 1952 - Preliminary

Objection (including the text of the declaration of Judge Alvarez) - Judgments [1952]
ICJ 1; ICJ Reports 1952, p 28; [1952] ICJ Rep 28 (1 July 1952)

BADONG- Interpretation of Convention of 1919 concerning Employment of Women

during Night, Advisory Opinion, 1932 P.C.I.J. (ser. A/B) No. 50 (Nov.15)

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 SALES- Request for Interpretation of the Judgment of 15 June 1962 in the Case
concerning the Temple of Preah Vihear (Cambodia v. Thailand) (Cambodia v.
Thailand)

BADONG- Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in
Namibia (South West Africa) notwithstanding Security Council Resolution 276 (1970)

SALES- Fisheries Jurisdiction (U.K. v. Iceland), 1973 I.C.J. 3 

BADONG- Gabčikovo-Nagymaros Project, Hungary v Slovakia, Judgment, Merits, ICJ

GL No 92, [1997] ICJ Rep 7, [1997] ICJ Rep 88, (1998) 37 ILM 162, ICGJ 66 (ICJ
1997), 25th September 1997, International Court of Justice [ICJ]

IV. International Human Rights

Documents

United Nations Charter

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

Articles

A. Reinisch, ‘Developing Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Accountability fo the

UN Security Council for the Imposition of Economic Sanctions’, The American Journal
of International Law, Vol. 95, No. 4 (October 2001), pp. 851-872

A. Cassimatis. ‘International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law and

Fragmentation of International Law’, The International and Comparative Law
Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 3 (July 2007), pp. 623-639

Cases

Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

(Wall Opinion), International Court of Justice, https://www.icj-
cij.org/en/case/131/advisory-opinions

V. International Humanitarian Law

Cases

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 Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict - Advisory Opinion
of 8 July 1996 - Advisory Opinions [1996] ICJ 2; ICJ Reports 1996, p 66; [1996] ICJ
Rep 66 (8 July 1996)

VI. International Criminal Law

Document

International Criminal Court Statute

Cases

United States Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, United States v. Wilhelm List; The United
Nations War Crimes Commission, Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, vol. VIII,
1949, pp.  34-76

VII. Law of the Sea

Document

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Cases

An Arbitration before an arbitral tribunal constituted under Annex VII to the 1982
United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea between the Republic of the Philippines
and the People's Republic of China (12 July 2016), PCA Case No. 2013-19

United Kingdom v Norway - Fisheries - Judgment of 18 December 1951 - (including the

text of the declaration of judge Hackworth) - Judgments [1951] ICJ 3; ICJ Reports 1951,
p 116; [1951] ICJ Rep 116 (18 December 1951)

VIII. Settlement of International Disputes

Cases

Mavrommatis Palestine Concessions  (Greece v. U.K.), 1924 P.C.I.J. (ser. B) No. 3 (Aug.
30)

Federal Republic of Germany/Netherlands - North Sea Continental Shelf - Judgment of

20 February 1969 - Judgments [1969] ICJ 1; ICJ Reports 1969, p 3; [1969] ICJ Rep 3
(20 February 1969)

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 Case Concerning East Timor (Portugal v. Australia)

An Arbitration before an arbitral tribunal constituted under Annex VII to the 1982
United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea between the Republic of the Philippines
and the People's Republic of China (12 July 2016), PCA Case No. 2013-19

IX. International Economic/Trade Law

Book

Matsushita, Schoenbaum, & Mavroidis, The World Trade Organization: Law, Practice,
and Policy (3rd ed., Oxford, 2016)

*Chapters to be assigned by the Professor

X. Philippine Practice In International Law

a. Sources of Law: Custom

b. Sources of Law: Treaty
c. Jurisdiction and Sovereign Immunity
d. Extradition
e. Law of the Sea

Documents

The 1987 Constitution

Articles

J. Goldsmith and D. Levinson. ‘Law for States: International Law, Constitutional Law,
Public Law’, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 122, No. 7 (May 2009), pp. 1791-1868

A. Roberts. ‘Comparative International Law? The Role of National Courts in Creating

and Enforcing International Law, The International and Comparative Law Quarterly,
Vol. 60, No. 1 (January 2011), pp. 57-92

Cases

Kuroda v. Jalandoni 83 Phil. 171

Gibbs v. Rodriguez, 84 Phil. 230
USA v. Guinto, 182 SCRA 645
Holy See v. Rosario, 238 SCRA 524
Agustin v. Edu, 88 SCRA 195
Marcos v. Manglapus, 177 SCRA 668

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 Reyes v. Bagatsing, 125 SCRA 553
Tolentino v. Secretary of Finance, 235 SCRA 630, 662
La Chemiste Lacoste v. Fernandez, 129 SCRA 373
Raquiza v. Bradford, 75 Phil. 50
Co Kim Cham v. Tan Keh, 75 Phil. 113
Heirs of Tugade v. MRR, 65 SCRA 593
Pimentel v. Romulo, GR No. 158088, July 6, 2005
Guerrero’s Transportation Services, Inc. v. Blaylock Transportation Services, Employees
Association, GRL-41518, June 30, 1976
World Health Organization v. Aquino, 48 SCRA 242
In Re Garcia, 2 SCRA 984
Abbas v. COMELEC, 179 SCRA 287

Grading System

30% - Recitation/Class Reporting/Quizzes

20% - Midterms

40% - Finals

10%- Handwritten Case Digests (to be submitted prior to the Finals)

Recommended Textbook:

Merlin M. Magallona. Fundamentals of Public International Law. (Get latest edition)

Policies:

1. Students are expected to read the cases listed above in their original, including the relevant codal
provisions.

2. Textbooks/ readings may be brought in class. However, students should not read from the
textbook/readings during recitations, unless instructed by the Professor.

3. The professor will award plus 10 in the raw score in the final exams of students with complete attendance.
By complete attendance, the Professor means that the student does not incur absences, excused or
unexcused, subject only to the qualification that non-attendance in class on account of activities approved
by the School of Law (e.g., participation of the student in moot court competitions) will not be deemed as
an absence for this purpose.

3.1. The Professor strictly enforces the attendance policy of the University especially the rules on
maximum number of absences. Any student exceeding the maximum shall be automatically given a
final grade of 5.0.

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4. The Professor reserves the right to supplement the above as necessary to enhance the learning of the
students. Where the supplement includes cases, the said cases shall form part of the handwritten digests.

5. Students should bring 1x1 photo on the first day of class, which shall be used for the seating plan.

6. The elected Class Beadle shall coordinate with the Professor for copies of the journal articles mentioned in
this outline.