SAN BEDA UNIVERSITY

College of Law
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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
3 UNITS
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SECOND SEMESTER - SCHOOL YEAR 2020-2021
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COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course is a study of the basic principles of international law and an overview of the legal principles
governing international relations based among others, on the United Nations Charter, the doctrines of
well-known and recognized publicists, and the decisions of international tribunals and bodies. It
includes a review of relevant international and Philippine case and treaty law.

COURSE GOALS: Expected College of Law Graduate Attributes (ELGAs)

Know and understand the laws, memorize provisions, develop critical and analytical thinking, effective
in written and oral communication, logical reasoning, and sound judgment, exercise of proper
professional and ethical responsibilities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES/OUTCOMES (LOs):

1. Knowledge/Remembering: define, list, recognize

2. Comprehension/Understanding: describe, explain, identify, recognize
3. Application/Applying: choose, demonstrate, implement, perform
4. Analysis/Analyzing: analyze, categorize, compare, differentiate
5. Evaluation/Evaluating: assess, critique, evaluate, rank, rate
6. Synthesis/Creating: construct, design, formulate, organize, synthesize

Upon completion of the PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW course, the student is expected to be able to:

Expected College of
Law Graduate LEARNING OUTCOMES (LOs)
Attributes (ELGAs)
Critical and analytical LO1. Understand the nature of international law in the context of the
thinking Philippine constitutional and legal framework and how it influences
Effective in written legislative, executive and judicial action
and oral
communication LO2. Analyze/Criticize/Compare international and Philippine cases
Logical reasoning applying international law principles
Sound judgment
LO3. Apply the principles of international law and relevant case
doctrines in a given hypothetical or actual situation.

LO4. Utilize legal research tools to gather information that aids in the
analysis of legal issues in submitting the Research Paper.
ASSESSMENT/GRADING SYSTEM:

The student will be graded according to the following:

Percentage
(Weight is based
Scope of Work
Requirements (Based on the Learning Outcomes) on the
(Individual)
importance of
the LO)
LO1 Class recitations, Quizzes, Case Digests, Individual
LO2 and discussion Individual
LO3 Individual
LO4 - - Research Paper, Case Study

Class standing before Midterms Individual 16.67%

Midterm Exams Individual 16.67%
Class Standing after Midterms Individual 33.33%
Final Exams Individual 33.33%
TOTAL 100

LEARNING PLAN:

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Course Introduction
Ÿ Course overview Syllabus Feb. 8-13, Lecture
Ÿ Course assignments 2021 Discussion
Ÿ Course requirements

MODULE 1: GENERAL PRINCIPLES and SOURCES • Syllabus Feb. 15-20, Ÿ Recitation

OF INTERNATIONAL LAW • Textbooks 2021 Ÿ Case study
• Supreme Court & reporting
1.1 Definition and Functions of International Law Decisions Ÿ Discussion/
(SCRA) Lecture
1.2 Main Divisions and Basis of International Law • Statutory Ÿ Quiz
Provisions
1.3 Public International Law distinguished from
Private International Law and Other Concepts

1.4 International Law as True Law

1.5 Relationship with Municipal Law

a. Monist v. Dualist
b. Doctrine of Incorporation v. Doctrine of
Transformation
c. Conflict between International Law and
Municipal Law

1.6 Sources of International Law

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a. Primary Sources- Article 38 (Statute of
the International Court of Justice)
i. International Treaties and
Conventions
ii. International Customs
- Opinio Juris Sive
Necessitates
- Treaties v. Customs (Principle
of Jus Cogens)
- U.N. General Resolution
2625, October 24, 1970
iii. General Principles of Law

b. Secondary Sources
i. Judicial Decisions
ii. Writings of Publicists
- Functions of Equity and
Principle of Ex aequo et bono
- Other Supplementary
Evidence
- Hard Law v. Soft Law

Cases:
1) Kuroda v. Jalandoni, G.R. No. L-2662, March 26,
1949
2) Co Kim Chan v. Valdez Tan Keh, G.R. No. L-5,
September 17, 1945
3) Ichong v. Hernandez, G.R. No. L-7995, May 31,
1957
4) Gonzalez v. Hechanova, G.R. No. L-21897,
October 22, 1963
5) Mejoff v. Director of Prisons, 90 Phil. 70
6) Paquete v. Habana, 175 U.S. 677
7) Mijares v. Ranada, G.R. No. 139325, April 12,
2005 (455 SCRA 397)
8) Pharmaceutical and Health Care
Association v. Duque, G.R. No. 173034, October
19, 2007
9) Columbia v. Peru, ICJ Rep. 266, (1950)
10) Reagan v. CIR, 30 SCRA 968
11) Agustin v. Edu, 88 SCRA 195
12) Republic v. Sandiganbayan, 407 SCRA 10
13) Tanada v. Angara, 272 SCRA 18
14) Bayan Muna v. Romulo, 641 SCRA 244
15) Vinuya v. Romulo, 619 SCRA 533

MODULE 2: THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY • Syllabus Feb 22-27, Ÿ Recitation

• Textbooks 2021 Ÿ Case study
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2.1 Distinction between Subject and Object of • Supreme Court Ÿ Discussion/l
International Law Decisions ecture
(SCRA) Ÿ Quiz
2.2 Subjects of International Law • Statutory
Provisions
2.3 State
a. Definition and Elements
b. Classification

2.4 United Nations

2.5 Vatican City

a. The Treaty of Lateran 1929

Case: The Holy See v. Rosario, 238 SCRA 524

2.6 Colonies and Dependencies

2.7 Mandates and Trust Territories

2.8 Belligerent Communities

2.9 International Administrative Bodies

2.10 Individuals

MODULE 3: UNITED NATIONS

3.1 Historical Development of the United Nations

3.2 The UN Charter

a. Purpose, Principles and Amendment
b. Principle of Charter Supremacy (Article
103, UN Charter)
c. Domestic Jurisdiction Clause

3.3 Membership
a. Classes, Qualifications, Admission,
Suspension, Expulsion and Withdrawal

3.4 Principal Organs

a. Functions, Composition and
Jurisdiction
b. Distinguish between Procedural
and Non-Procedural/Substantive Matter
c. Optional Jurisdiction Clause
d. Other Subsidiary Organs
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MODULE 4: CONCEPT OF THE STATE • Syllabus Mar. 1-6, Ÿ Recitation

• Textbooks 2021 Ÿ Case study
4.1 Creation and Extinction of State • Supreme Court & reporting
a. Obligation Erga Omnes and Remedies Decisions Ÿ Discussion/l
b. Principle of State Continuity (SCRA) ecture
• Statutory Ÿ Quiz
Case: Sapphire Case, 11 Wall 164 Provisions

4.2 Succession of States and Government

a. Classification, Modes and Consequences

Case: People v. Perfecto, 43 Phil 887

b. Doctrines of Succession

MODULE 5: RECOGNITION

5.1 Kinds of Recognition

a. Theories of Recognition
5.2 Recognition of States
5.3 Recognition of Government
a. Kinds of De Facto Government
b. Principles/Doctrines of Recognition
c. Requirements for Recognition of
Government
d. Recognition De Jure v. Recognition De
Facto
5.4 Effects of Recognition of States and
Government

Cases:
1) Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic v.
Cibrario, New York Court of Appeals, 1923, 235 NY
255
2) Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabatino, 376 US 398
3) Oetjen v. Central Leather Co., 246 US. 297

a. Doctrine of State Immunity

Cases:
1) Underhill v. Hernandez, 168 U.S. 250
2) PCGG v. Sandiganbayan, 530 SCRA 13
3) Baer v. Tizon, 57 SCRA 1
4) Syquia v. Almeda Lopez, 84 Phil. 312
5) U.S.A. v. Guinto, G.R. No. 76607
6) U.S.A. v. Rodrigo, G.R. No. 79470
7) U.S.A. v. Ceballos, G.R. No. 80018
8) U.S.A. v. Vergara, 182 SCRA 644
9) U.S.A. v. Ruiz, 136 SCRA 487
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10) U.S.A. v. Reyes, 219 SCRA 192

5.5 Recognition of Belligerency, Conditions

a. Distinguish between Insurgency and
Belligerency

5.6 Consequences of Recognition of Belligerency

MODULE 6: THE RIGHT OF EXISTENCE AND • Syllabus Mar. 8-20, Ÿ Recitation

SELF-DEFENSE • Textbooks 2021 Ÿ Case study
• Supreme Court & reporting
6.1 Requisites of Exercise of the Right of Self Decisions Ÿ Discussion/l
Defense (SCRA) ecture
a. Article 51 of the UN Charter • Statutory Ÿ Quiz
Provisions
6.2 Aggression
a. Definition and Acts of Aggression

MODULE 7: THE RIGHT OF INDEPENDENCE

7.1 Sovereignty and Independence

7.2 Intervention
a. Grounds for Intervention
b. International Declarations Against
Intervention
c. Drago Doctrine and its antecedents,
Porter Resolution and other doctrines

MODULE 8: THE RIGHT OF EQUALITY

8.1 Article 2, UN Charter

8.2 International Agreements which recognize

Right of Equality

8.3 Rule of Par in Parem Non Habet Imperium

MODULE 9: TERRITORY

9.1 Definition
a. National Territory of the Philippines
(Section 1, Article 1, Constitution)

9.2 Modes of Acquisition and Loss of Territory

a. Requisites of Valid Discovery and
Occupation
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Cases:
1) Island of Palmas Case, 2 UN Rep. of Int. Arb.
Awards, 231
2) Clipperton Island Case, 26 A.J.I.L. 1932

b. Terra Nullius and Animus Occupandi

c. Inchoate Title of Discovery

9.3 Components of Territory

a. Terrestrial
b. Maritime and Fluvial Domain
i. Thalweg Doctrine
ii. UN Conference on the Law of
the Sea
1. Baselines
2. Archipelagic States
a. Straight
archipelagic
baselines
b. archipelagic waters
c. archipelagic sea
lanes passage
d. regime of islands
3. Internal waters
4. Territorial sea
5. Contiguous zone
6. Exclusive economic zone
7. Continental shelf
8. International Tribunal for
the Law of the Sea
iii. R.A. No. 5446
iv. R.A. No. 9522

Cases:
1) Magallona v. Ermita, 655 SCRA 476
2) Fisheries Case, ICJ Reports (1951) 116
3) In the matter of the South China Sea Arbitration
[P.C.A. 2013-19]

c. Aerial Domain

MODULE 10: JURISDICTION • Syllabus Mar. 22- Ÿ Recitation

• Textbooks Apr. 3, Ÿ Case study
10.1 Personal Jurisdiction, Examples • Supreme Court 2021 & reporting
Decisions Ÿ Discussion/
Case: Joyce v. Director of Public Prosecution, House of (SCRA) lecture
Lords, Dec 18, 1945, Am Journal, Vol 40 (1946) • Statutory Ÿ Quiz
Provisions
10.2 Territorial Jurisdiction
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Case: The Schooner Exchange v. McFaddon, 7 Cranch 116

a. Exemptions

Case: Underhill v. Hernandez, 168 US 250.

10.3 Land Jurisdiction

10.4 Maritime and Fluvial Jurisdiction
a. English and French Rules on Criminal
Jurisdiction over Merchant Vessels
10.5 The Contiguous Zone and the Continental
Shelf
10.6 The Patrimonial Sea/Economic Zone
10.7 The Open Seas
a. Res Communes
b. Instances when State may exercise
Jurisdiction

Case: Lotus Case, PICJ, Ser. A. No. 10, 1927, Hudson,

World Ct. Rep 20

c. Doctrine of Hot Pursuit

10.8 Aerial Jurisdiction

a. Five Air Freedoms
b. Convention of Offenses and Certain Acts
Committed on Board Aircraft

10.9 Outer Space

10.10 Other Territories

a. Distinction of exterritoriality from
extraterritoriality
b. Generally Recognized Principles of
Criminal Jurisdiction (ie. Territorial
Principle, Nationality Principle,
Protective Principle, Universality
Principle and Passive Personality
Principle)
c. Objective Territorial Jurisdiction

MODULE 11: THE RIGHT OF LEGATION • Syllabus Apr. 5- 10, Ÿ Recitation

• Textbooks 2021 Ÿ Case study
11.1 Agents of Diplomatic Intercourse • Supreme Court & reporting
Decisions Ÿ Discussion/
11.2 Commencement of Diplomatic Mission (SCRA) lecture
a. Letter of Credence • Statutory Ÿ Quiz
Provisions
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11.3 Diplomatic Functions

11.4 Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges

a. Personal Inviolability
b. Immunity from Jurisdiction, Exceptions
to Civil and Administrative Jurisdiction
i. R.A 75
c. Inviolability of Diplomatic Premises
d. Inviolability of Archives
e. Inviolability of Communication
f. Exemption from Testimonial Duties
g. Exemption from Taxation
h. Other Privileges

11.5 Duration and Termination of Diplomatic

Mission
a. Persona non grata

Cases:

1) Pimentel v. Executive Secretary, G.R. No. 158088,

July 6, 2005
2) WHO v. Aquino, 48 SCRA 1242
3) Holy See v. Rosario, 238 SCRA 524
4) DFA v. NLRC, 262 SCRA 39
5) Reyes v. Bagatsing, 125 SCRA 553
6) Bayan v. Zamora, 342 SCRA 449
7) Lasco v. U.N. Revolving Fund, 241 SCRA 681
8) China Machinery v. Santa Maria, 665 SCRA 189
9) GTZ v. CA, G.R. No. 152318, April 16, 2009
10) Jusmag v. NLRC, 239 SCRA 224
11) DFA v. NLRC, 262 SCRA 39
12) ICMC v. Calleja, 190 SCRA 130
13) Liang v. People, 355 SCRA 125

Apr. 12-17,
Mid-Term Examinations 2021

MODULE 12: CONSULS • Syllabus Apr. 19- Ÿ Recitation

• Textbooks May 1, Ÿ Case study
12.1 Kinds and Grades • Supreme Court 2021 & reporting
Decisions Ÿ Discussion/l
12.2 Appointment (SCRA) ecture
a. Letter of Patent, Exequatur • Statutory Ÿ Quiz
Provisions
12.3 Functions
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12.4 Immunities and Privileges

12.5 Termination of Consular Mission

MODULE 13: TREATIES

-Executive Order No. 459

13.1 Treaty v. Executive Agreements

13.2 Functions

13.3 Essential Requisites of a Valid Treaty

13.4 Treaty-making Process

a. Accession
b. Alternat

13.5 Binding Effect of Treaties

a. Reservation, When Allowed
b. Most-Favored Nation Clause

13.6 Observance of Treaties

a. Pacta Tertiis Nec Nocent Nec Prosunt
b. Pacta Sunt Servanda
c. Doctrine of Rebus Sic Stantibus,
Requisities and Limitations

13.7 Treaty Interpretation

13.8 Termination of Treaties

a. Grounds for Invalidating a State’s
Consent to be bound by a Treaty

Cases:
1) Commissioner of Customs v. Eastern Sea Trading, 3
SCRA 351
2) Pimentel v. Executive Secretary, G.R. No. 158088,
July 6, 2005
3) Tanada v. Angara, 272 SCRA 18
4) Inchong v. Hernandez, 101 Phil. 1156
5) Deutsche Bank v. CIR, August 19, 2013
6) Reagan v. CIR, G.R. No. L-226379, December 27,
1969
7) Guerrero Transport v. Blaylock, 71 SCRA 621
8) U.S.A. v. Purganan, G.R. No. 148571, December 17,
2002
9) Gonzales v. Hechanova, G.R. No. L-21897, October
22, 1963
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10) USAFFE v. Treasurer of the Philippines, G.R. No. L-
10500, June 30, 1959
11) Abaya v. Ebane, 515 SCRA 720
12) Bayan Muna v. Romulo, 641 SCRA 244
13) DBM v. Kolonwel Trading, 524 SCRA 591
14) Pharmaceutical and Health Care Association v.
Duque, G.R. No. 173034, October 19, 2007
15) Bayan v. Zamora, 342 SCRA 449
16) Philip Morris v. CA, 224 SCRA 756
17) Province of North Cotabato v. GRP, 568 SCRA 402
18) Abaya v. Ebdane, 515 SCRA 720
19) Santos v. Northwest Airlines, G.R. No. 101538, June
23, 1992
20) Adolfo v. CFI, 34 SCRA 166

MODULE 14: NATIONALITY AND • Syllabus May 3- 8, Ÿ Recitation

STATELESSNESS • Textbooks 2021 Ÿ Case study
• Supreme Court & reporting
14.1 Nationality v. Citizenship Decisions Ÿ Discussion/
(SCRA) lecture
14.2 Acquisition of Nationality • Statutory Ÿ Quiz
a. Jus Sanguinis v. Jus Soli Provisions
b. Kinds of Naturalization

14.3 Multiple Nationality, Examples

a. Doctrine of Indelible Allegiance

14.4 Loss of Nationality

14.5 Conflict of Nationality Laws

a. Rules on Multiple Nationalities
b. Doctrine of Effective Nationality, When
is it Applicable
Cases:
1) US (Alexander Tellech) v. Austria and Hungary
Case, Tripartite Claims Commission, 1928, Decisions
and Opinions (1929), p.71.
2) The Canevaro Case, Tribunal of the Permanent Court
of Arbitration, 1912; Scott, Hague Court Reports,
284
3) The Nottebohm Case, ICJ Reports, 1955, p.4 Judg.
April 6, 1955

14.6 Statelessness
a. Definition and Consequences
b. Steps Undertaken to Avoid Condition of
Statelessness (Hague Convention of 1930)
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c. Rights of Stateless Person (Covenant
Relating to the Status of Stateless Person)
d. Asylum, Principles
e. Refugees, Rights

MODULE 15: TREATMENT OF ALIENS • Syllabus May 10-15, Ÿ Recitation

• Textbooks 2021 Ÿ Case study
15.1 Doctrine of State Responsibility, Conditions • Supreme Court & reporting
Decisions Ÿ Discussion/
15.2 International Standard of Justice (SCRA) lecture
a. Doctrine of Equality of Treatment • Statutory Ÿ Quiz
Provisions
Chattin Case: US Chattin v. Mexico, General Claims
Commission, 1927

15.3 Failure of Protection of Redress

Cases:
1) Noyes Case: US v. Panama, General Claims
Commission, 1933
2) Youmans Case: US v. Mexico, Opinions of the
Commission, 1927
3) Galvan Case, Mexico v US, Opinions of the
Commissioners, 1926.
4) Jane Case: US v. Mexico, Opinions of the
Commissioners, 1927.

a. Direct v. Indirect State Responsibility

15.4 Exhaustion of Local Remedies

15.5 Resort to Diplomatic Protection

15.6 Enforcement of Claim

a. Reparation, Restitution, Satisfaction or
Compensation

15.7 Avoidance of State Responsibility

a. Calvo Clause

Case: US (North American Dredging Co) v. Mexico, General

Claims Commission, 1926

15.8 Exclusion of Aliens

Case: Harvey v. Santiago, 162 SCRA 840.

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15.9 Extradition
a. Distinguished from Deportation
b. Basis of Extradition

15.10 Fundamental Principles of Extradition

a. Principle of Specialty
b. Attentat Clause
c. Genocide
d. Rule of Double Criminality

15.11 Procedure for Extradition

Cases:

1) Savarcar Case, Oppenheim-Lauterpacht, 703

2) Secretary of Justice v. Lantion, 322 SCRA 160
3) Belgium v. Senegal, ICJ Judgment of July 20, 2012
4) Chirskoff v. Commission of Immigration, 90 Phil. 256
(1951)
5) Cuevas v. Muñoz, G.R. No. 140520, December 18,
2000 (348 SCRA 542)
6) Government of Hongkong Special Administrative
Region v. Olalia, Jr., G.R. No. 153675, April 19,
2007 (521 SCRA 470)
7) Government of the United States of America v.
Purganan, G.R. No. 148571, September 24, 2002
(389 SCRA 623)
8) Mejoff v. Director of Prisons, 90 Phil. 70 (1951)
9) Rodriguez v. Presiding Judge, RTC Manila, Br. 17,
G.R. No. 157977, February 27, 2006 (483 SCRA
290)
10) Government of Hongkong – SAR vs. Muñoz [G.R.
No. 207342, 16 August 2016
11) Secretary of Justice v. Lantion, 343 SCRA 377

MODULE 16: SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL • Syllabus May 17-22, Ÿ Recitation

DISPUTES • Textbooks 2021 Ÿ Case study
• Supreme Court & reporting
16.1 Definition and Classification Decisions Ÿ Discussion/
16.2 Methods of Settling Disputes (SCRA) lecture
16.3 Amicable and Non Hostile Methods • Statutory Ÿ Quiz
Provisions
Case: Dogger Bank Case, Scott, Hague Court Reports 403
(1916)

a. Mediation v. Conciliation
b. Arbitration v. Judicial Settlement
c. Limitations on Jurisdiction of ICJ
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d. Compromissary Clause
e. Optional Jurisdiction Clause (Article 36,
Statute), Applicability
f. Retorsion v. Reprisal, Forms or Examples

Case: Naulilaa Incident Arbitration Case, Portuguese-

German Arbitral Tribunal, 1928.

16.4 United Nations

a. Disputes over which the Security Council
has Jurisdiction, Parties
b. Preventive and Enforcement Action
c. Uniting for Peace Resolution

MODULE 17: WAR • Syllabus May 24-29, Ÿ Recitation

• Textbooks 2021 Ÿ Case study
17.1 Definition, Commencement and Laws of War • Supreme & reporting
17.2 Outlawry of War Court Ÿ Discussion/
17.3 Effects of Outbreak of War Decisions lecture
a. Tests to Determine Enemy Character of (SCRA) Ÿ Quiz
Individual/Corporation • Statutory
17.4 Combatants and non-combatants, Provisions
a. Levee En Masse
b. Rights When Captured
c. Spies and Mercenaries
17.5 Conduct of the Hostilities
a. Basic Principles Underlying the Laws of
War
(ie. Military Necessity, Humanity and
Chivalry)
17.6 Kinds of Warfare
a. Theater of War v. Region of War
17.7 Belligerent Occupation
17.8 Right of Postliminium
17.9 Non-Hostile Intercourse
17.10 Suspension of Hostilities
a. Armistice v. Suspension of Arms
17.11 Termination of War
a. Principle of Uti Possidetis v. Status Quo
Ante
17.12 Aftermath of War
a. Principles of the Nuremberg Charter and
Judgment
b. Crimes punishable under International
Law

Cases:
1) People v. Alvero, 86 Phil. 58
2) Laurel v. Misa, 77 Phil. 856
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3) Yamashita v. Styer, 75 Phil. 563
4) People v. Agoncillo, 80 Phil. 33
5) Gibbs v. Rodriguez, 84 Phil. 230
6) Co Kim Cham v. Valdez Tan Keh, 75 Phil. 113
7) People v. Godinez, 79 Phil. 775
8) Wilson v. Berkenkotter, G.R. L-4476, April 20, 1953
9) Kuroda v. Jalandoni, 83 Phil. 171
10) Raquiza v. Bradford, 75 Phil. 50
11) Haw Pia v. China Banking Corporation, 80 Phil. 604

MODULE 18: NEUTRALITY • Syllabus May 31- Ÿ Recitation

• Textbooks June 5, Ÿ Case study
18.1 Distinguish Neutrality and Neutralization • Supreme Court 2021 & reporting
Decisions Ÿ Discussion/
18.2 Rules of Neutrality (SCRA) lecture
a. Mutual Rights and Duties of Neutral and • Statutory Ÿ Quiz
Belligerent States Provisions
b. Requisites of Valid Blockade
c. Use of Neutral Territories, Facilities and
Services
d. Prize
e. Visit and Search, Rules Laid Down by the
Declaration of Paris of 1856 regarding
treatment of sea-borne goods in time of
War
f. Definition and Classifications of
Contraband
g. Doctrine of Ultimate Consumption
h. Doctrine of Infection
i. Doctrine of Ultimate Destination

Case: Springbok Case, 5 Wall 1 (1867)

j. Doctrine of Continuous
Voyage/Transport
k. Instances when a Vessel is liable to
condemnation for unneutral service
l. Right of Angary, Requisites

18.3 Termination of Neutrality

MODULE 19: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS

LAW • Syllabus June 7-19, Ÿ Recitation
• Textbooks 2021 Ÿ Case study
19.1 Universal Declaration of Human Rights • Supreme Court & reporting
Decisions Ÿ Discussion/
19.2 International Covenant on Civil and Political (SCRA) lecture
Rights • Statutory Ÿ Quiz
Provisions
 WEEK/ LEARNING
LEARNING DATE METHODS
RESOURCES (Schedule (activities
TOPIC/CONTENT (print and non- of each designed or
(arrangement or sequence of the major topics is based print materials Topic, deployed by the
on a logical order) and online/ Assign, teacher to bring
open-access Exam for about, or create
resources) the entire the conditions
semester) for learning)
19.3 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and
Cultural Rights

19.4 International Criminal Court

Cases:
1) Republic vs. Sandiganbayan, G.R. No. 104678, July
21, 2003
2) Marcos vs. Manglapus, G.R. No. 88211, 15
September 1989
Dissenting Opinions

MODULE 20: INTERNATIONAL

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

20.1 Section 16, Article II, 1987 Constitution

20.2 Principle 21 of Stockholm Declaration

20.3 Precautionary principle

Cases:
1) J. Leonen, Social Justice Society (SJS) Officers vs.
Lim, G.R. No. 187836, November 25, 2014
2) Resident Marine Mammals of the Protected Seascape
Tanon Strait, G.R. No. 180771, April 21, 2015

Final Examinations June 21-26,

2021

TEXTBOOK/REFERENCE BOOK:

1. “International Law” by Saul Hofileña Jr.

2. “International Law a Pre-Bar Reviewer” by Saul Hofileña Jr.
3. “Introduction to Public International Law” by Joaquin G. Bernas, S J.

POLICIES:

1. Attendance will be checked every meeting.

2. Students who missed a quiz will get a grade of 60.
3. Students are prohibited from recording the online class.

Prepared by:

Faculty, College of Law

Approved by:

Signature
Atty. Marciano G. Delson
Dean, College of Law

Date Prepared by the Faculty: February 8, 2021