DAMODARAM SANJIVAYYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY

Visakhapatnam
COURSE OUTLINE

Title of the Subject: Public International Law

Name of the Faculty: Dr. Aruna Kammila Total No. of Hours: 60

Objectives:

1. Introduce to the necessity and structure of International Law and how it has developed
to the current state.
2. To comprehend the various areas that fall under the purview of International Law
with the development of Science and Technology, thereby analyze the lacunae due to
inability to be in pace with the development.
3. To analyze the role of International Law in maintaining the harmonious relations
among the nations of the world.

Unit UNIT 1 No. of

No. Topic: INTRODUCTION CASES FOR REFERENCE Hours

1.1 Origin, Nature & Importance of T. J. Lawrence, The Principles of 3

International Law International Law (3d ed., rev.)
(1908)
 Masterson, William E, The
Origin and Permanency of
International Law, 17 Temp. L.Q.
144 (1942-1943)

1.2 Sources of International Law Federal Republic of Germany v. 4

Denmark; Federal Republic of
Germany v. Netherlands) , I.C.J.
Reports 1969, p.3
Diversion of Water from Meuse
(Neth. v. Belg.), 1937 P.C.I.J.
(ser. A/B) No. 70 (June 28)
West Rand Central Gold Mining
Company, Limited v The King.
[1905] 2 K.B. 391
The Lotus Case (France v
Turkey)1927 ICJ Reports, Series
A, No.10
Anglo- Norwegian Fisheries
Case(UK v Norway)ICJ Reports
1951, p.116
Nicaragua ICJ Rports 1986 p 14
1.3 Schools of International Law 2

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1.4 Relation between International Law and 2
Municipal Law ADM Jabalpur vs Shivkant
Shukla (1976) 2 SCC 521
Vishaka and others  v State of
Rajasthan  and others. AIR 1997
SC 3011
1.5

UNIT 2
Topic:
2.1 Subjects of International Law and Place 4
of Individual in International
Law
2.2 Nationality; Modes of Acquisition and Nottebohm case [1955] ICJ 1 2
Loss of Nationality, Double
Nationality
2.3 Statelessness Factor v. Laubenheimer, 290 U.S. 2
276 (1933)
2.4 Extradition & Asylum Colombia v Peru [1950] ICJ 6 2

2.5 Diplomatic Agents Privileges and 2

Immunities Interhandel Case (Switz. v. US),
1959 ICJ 6 (Mar. 21)

UNIT 3
Topic:
3.1 Different kinds of States and Non-State Danzing Railways Official case 2
Entities (1928) PCIJ
Case concerning U.S. Diplomatic
and Consular Staff in Tehran(US
v. Tehran) ICJ Reports, 1980, 3
3.2 State Responsibility Barcelona Traction case Light 2
and Power Company Limited
( Belgium v Spain) Second Phase,
ICJ reports, 1970;
Tinoco case (Great Britain v.
Costa Rica) (1923) 1 R.I.A.A. 369
3.3 Recognition A. M. Luther v. James Sagor & 2
Co., [1921] 3 K.B. 532
Temple of Preah Vihear case,
Cambodia v Thailand, Merits,
Judgment, [1962] ICJ Rep 6
 Bank of China v.  Wells
Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co.
(Two Cases), 209 F.2d 467
Civil Air Transport Incorporated
Co. v. Central Air Transport
Corporation, [1952] 2 Lloyd's
Rep. 259

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3.4 State Succession Chorzow Factory, Germany v 1
Poland, Judgment, Claim for
Indemnity, Merits, Judgment No
13, (1928) PCIJ Series A No 17
Youman’s claim (1926) 4RIAA
110
Southern Pacific Properties
(Middle East) Ltd v Egypt (1993)
32 ILM 933, ICSID
3.5 Intervention 2

UNIT 4
Topic:
4.1 Territorial Sea (UK v Albania)1949 ICJ Reports 2

4.2 Continental Shelf North Sea Continental Shelf 5

cases, ICJ Reports, 1969, pp. 3,
39
Fisheries Jurisdiction (UK v.
Iceland) case, ICJ Reports, 1974,
p. 1
Anglo-French Continental Shelf
case, Cmnd 7438, 1978
Qatar v. Bahrain, ICJ Reports,
2001, pp. 40, 97
Tunisia v. Libyan Arab Republic
4.3 Exclusive Economic Zone M V Saiga Case: (St. Vincent and 2
the grenadines v Guinea)1999
120 ILR 143
4.4 UN Convention on the law of the Sea NNB v. Ocean Trade Company 2
87 ILR, p. 96
4.5 International Sea-bed Disputes Chamber 1. Victor Stoica, The 2
Development of Maritime
Delimitation by the
International Court of
Justice, 20 Romanian J.
Int'l L. [114] (2018).
2. Marcel Hendrapati,
Maritime Expansion and
Delimitation after the
Timor Gap Treaty, 5
Indon. L. Rev. 69 (2015)
3. Mare Liberum vs. Mare
Clausum: Grotius, Freitas,
and Selden's Debate on
Dominion over the
Seas(Journal of the
History of Ideas Vol. 64,
No. 3 (Jul., 2003), pp.
361-377).

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UNIT 5 4.
Topic:

5.1 The League of Nations 2

5.2 United Nations Organisation and its 2

Organs
5.3 International Court of Justice (ICJ) 3

5.4 International Criminal Court (ICC) 3

5.5 The World Trade Organisation(WTO) 2

Text Books

Sl. Author/s Title of the Book Edition and Publisher

No.

1. Dr. S. K. Public International Central Law Agency.

Kapoor Law & Human Rights,

2. J G Starke International Law Butterworths

Books for Reference

Minimum Two Reference Books
Sl. Author/s Title of the Book Edition and Publisher
No.

1. Ian Brownlie Principles of Public Oxford University Press.

International Law

2. L. Oppenheim International Law Oxford University Press

3. D. H. Harris International Law( Cases and Sweet & Maxwell

Materials)

4. Malcom N Shaw International Law Cambridge

5. H O Agarwal International Law Central Law Publication