Among the most significant topics, the course will focus on the following issues:
- definition and origin of international law; differential characteristics with respect to domestic law;
- international subjects and requirements of independence and sovereignty for the international personality;
- formation of the international norms and relations between the different sources of international law;
- general international law; custom, general principles of law, jus cogens and erga omnes obligations;
- codification of international law;
- international agreements and the law of the treaties in the Vienna Convention of 1969; in particular the procedure for conclusion, interpretation, reservations, grounds for invalidity and termination, succession of States in treaties;
- codification of the law of the sea; airspace and extra-atmospheric space;
- international organizations, their functions and acts;
- the United Nation Organization; its Charter, bodies and acts; the prohibition of use of force, the collective security system, the peace-keeping and peace-enforcement operations;
-the law of armed conflicts; humanitarian law and human rights;
- international wrongful acts, causes of justification, responsibility for breaches of international obligations;
- peaceful settlement of international disputes;
- relations between international law and domestic law; implementation of international law within the Italian legal system.

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B. CONFORTI, Diritto Internazionale, XII edizione, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2021.