DDRO 25A69 - Law and Practice of International Organisations
The salience of International organisations is high in the contemporary society and such organisations continue to play an important role. This course offers a comparative study of the institutional law of international organisations. While it is acknowledged that each organisation has its own legal structure and functioning, institutional challenges and rules of different organisations resemble each other in some way, and a great deal of body of institutional rules and principles has been developed. International organisations have much in common, such as the law on membership, competence, structures, decision-making and implementation, financing and legal personality. The course discusses the practice of a number of international organisations, including the United Nations and regional as well as subregional organisations. The course will explore the law, life and functioning of these organisations.
Francis Akali OLOO
English
Spring 2023-2024
i) Take-Home Written Exam (40% of the final grade). The exam will take place on week 11.
ii) One written assignment which will count for 30% of the final grade (drafting resolutions, decisions, declarations and other international instruments), which will take place on a continuous basis.
iii) Students must prepare and participate in one practical/oral exercise which will count for 30% of the final grade. The exercise will take place throughout the entire semester.
i) Henry G. Schermers and Niels M. Blokker, International Institutional Law (6th revised edition, Martinus Nijhoff 2018).
ii) Lauterpacht, Q.C., E., The Development of the Law of International Organization by the Decisions of International Tribunals (Volume 152, 1979), in: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law.
iii) Cedric Ryngaert, et al. (eds), Judicial Decisions on the Law of International Organizations (Oxford University Press, 2016)