Methodology of International Legal Research

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Schedule for seminars.

23/03 – Status of Individual in International Law:

1) Arguments “in favor” of international-legal personality of individual.

2) Arguments “against” international-legal personality of individual.

3) Final discussion and conclusions.

Recommended reading:

Brownlie I. The place of the individual in International Law.

Manner G. The object theory of the individual in International Law.

Clapham A. The role of the Individual in International Law // EJIL, Vol. 21, № 1, 2010.

Orakhelashvili A. The Position of the Individual in International Law.

Conrado M. Assenza. Individual as Subject of international law in the International Court of Justice Jurisprudence. – Heidelberg, Germany March 2010.

http://www.globallawbooks.org/reviews/detail.asp?id=709 (book review)

06/04 – Scholars of International Law(Reports on role, contribution and concepts of main representatives of international-legal doctrine + presentation of 1 article of the selected author).

1) M.Koskenniemi 2) B.Simma 3) Onuma Yasuaki 4) David Kennedy

5) Douglas Johnston 6) A.Carthy 7) Ph.Allot 8) P.-M.Dupuy

20/04 – Fragmentation of international law: difficulties arising from the diversification and expansion of International law. Report of the Study Group of the International Law Commission (2006).

1)Conflicts between special law and general law (lex specialis derogare lege generali)

2) Self-contained (special) regimes

3) Regionalism in International Law.

4) Conflicts between successive norms

5) Jus cogens and obligations erga omnes as conflict rules.

6) Final Discussion (Fragmentation of International Law as a phenomenon).

Recommended reading:

Koskenniemi M., Leino P. Fragmentation of International Law? Postmodern Anxieties // Leiden Journal of International Law. - №, 15, 2002. – Р. 553-579.

Materials of the Project on Fragmentation of International Law: Before and After the ILC Study on the Fragmentation of International Law. – University of Helsinki.

Leathley Ch. An institutional hierarchy to combat the fragmentation of international law: has the ILC missed an opportunity?

Michaels R., Pauwelyn Joost. Conflict of Norms or Conflict of Laws?: Different Techniques

in the Fragmentation of International Law.

04/05 – Revisiting Van Gend en Loos: A Joint Symposium with the International Journal of Constitutional Law (Discussion on EJIL Symposium – EJIL, Vol. 25, № 1, 2014).

Topics for discussion = Recommended reading:

1) J.H.H. Weiler. Van Gend en Loos: The Individual as Subject and Object and the Dilemma of European Legitimacy.

2) Eyal Benvenisti, George W. Downs. The Premises, Assumptions, and Implications of Van Gend en Loos: Viewed from the Perspectives of Democracy and Legitimacy of International Institutions.

3) Damian Chalmers, Luis Barroso. What Van Gend en Loos Stands For.

4) André Nollkaemper. The Duality of Direct Effect of International Law.

5) Rasmussen M. Revolutionizing European Law: A History of the Van Gend en Loos Judgment.

6) Francesca Martines. Direct Effect of International Agreements of the European Union.

7) Robin-Olivier S. The Evolution of Direct Effect in the EU: Stocktaking, Problems, Projections.

8) Ruiz Fabri H. Is There a Case - Legally and Politically - for Direct Effect of WTO Obligations?

9) Jan Komárek. Waiting for the Existential Revolution in Europe.

10) Rosenfeld M. Is Global Constitutionalism Meaningful or Desirable?

18/05 – “Regional Sub-systems in International Law.

1) European system of International Law.

2) American system of International Law.

3) Arab system of International Law.

4) African system of International Law.

5) Peculiarities of Asian (Chinese) International Law.

Recommended reading:

Armin von Bogdandy. Globalization and Europe: How to Square Democracy, Globalization, and International Law // European Journal of International Law. – Vol. 15, № 5, 2004. – P. 885-906.

Christoph Schreuer. Regionalism v. Universalism // European Journal of International Law. 1995 (6).

Wanli Chen, Jun Zhao. Arab League’s Decision-making System and Arab Integration// Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (in Asia).—Vol. 3, No. 2, 2009. – p. 59-66.

Richard Frimpong Oppong. Relational Issues of Law and Economic Integration in Africa. Perspectives from Constitutional, Public and Private International Law. December 2009.

Frederik Söderbaum. What’s Wrong with Regional Integration? The Problem of Eurocentrism // Working papers RSCAS 2013/64. – European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Global Governance Programme-63. – 2013.

Louise Fawcett. The History and Concept of Regionalism // European Society of International Law. Conference Paper Series. Conference Paper No. 4/2012. 5th Biennial Conference, Valencia (Spain), 13-15 September 2012.

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