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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4

Cassese A, Fundamental Principles Governing International Relations......................................4

Bennett and Strug, Chapter 1.....................................................................................................10

Introductory lecture....................................................................................................................14

Sources of international law...........................................................................................................18

Statute of the International Court of Justice – Article 38...........................................................18

Customary International Law (CIL):......................................................................................21

International conventions (treaty law)....................................................................................30

Interpretation of international treaties:...................................................................................47

Challenges to validity:............................................................................................................47

State succession?....................................................................................................................48

Subjects and objects of international law.......................................................................................49

International legal personality....................................................................................................49

What is a State under international law?....................................................................................50

Additional req: Alma Alta Declaration..................................................................................52

International organisations.........................................................................................................53

The United Nations................................................................................................................55

Individuals..............................................................................................................................58

Position of Public International Law under the 1996 Constitution:...............................................60

The monist approach:.................................................................................................................60

The dualist approach:.................................................................................................................60

SA Harmonization Approach.....................................................................................................61

Public International Law and the 1996 Constitution:.............................................................61

Sovereignty and jurisdiction...........................................................................................................84

Sovereignty.................................................................................................................................85

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Jurisdiction.................................................................................................................................87

The Lotus case:.......................................................................................................................88

Immunity from jurisdiction....................................................................................................95

Extradition................................................................................................................................107

Belgium v Senegal ICJ 2012:...............................................................................................108

State responsibility.......................................................................................................................117

State Responsibility: Part 1......................................................................................................118

Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts 2001............118

State responsibility part 2.........................................................................................................124

Article 13: international obligations in force.......................................................................124

Article 4: Imputability..........................................................................................................125

Article 5: Conduct of persons or entities exercising elements of governmental authority. .126

Article 6: Conduct of organs placed at the disposal of a State by another State..................126

Article 7: Excess of authority or contravention of instructions...........................................127

Article 8: Conduct directed or controlled by a State............................................................127

Article 9: Absence of the official authorities.......................................................................130

Article 16: Aid or assistance................................................................................................131

Article 17: Direction and control.........................................................................................131

Legal Consequences of an internationally wrongful act:.....................................................131

The United Nations......................................................................................................................133

The structure of the UN charter................................................................................................133

The purposes of the UN – article 1..........................................................................................134

Organs of the UN.....................................................................................................................136

UN General Assembly.........................................................................................................136

UN Secretary General..........................................................................................................138

International Court of Justice...............................................................................................139

The Security Council............................................................................................................148

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The use of force and self-defence................................................................................................157

Legal question: wall case.........................................................................................................158

Humanitarian law.................................................................................................................159

Territorial sovereignty..........................................................................................................159

Occupation...........................................................................................................................161

The use of force........................................................................................................................169

Chapter 7 first leg: sanctions................................................................................................169

UN peace-keeping missions – Chapter “6 ½”......................................................................170

Chapter 7 2nd leg: the use of pure force................................................................................172

Chapter 8: Regional arrangements.......................................................................................175

Chapter 7 part 3: Self-defence..............................................................................................175

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