PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW

Atty. Amando Virgil D. Ligutan

Second Semester 2017-2018

I. CONCEPT AND NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Oppenheim, International Law, Vol. 1, pp.4-22 (8th ed., 1958, by Lauterpacht)

Brierly, The Basis of Obligation in International Law, pp. 9-18, 46-56 (1958)

Tunkin, International Law in the International System, pp. 78-84, 147 Recueil des
Cours 78-84 (1975, IV)

Brownlie, The Reality and Efficacy of International Law, 52 BYIL 1 (1981)

Higgins, Problems and Process: International Law and How We Used It (1994),
pp. 1-16.

Baxter, International Law in Her Infinite Variety, 29 Intl & Comp. L.Q. 549
(1980)

II. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

M. Bedjaoui, General Introduction, International Law: Achievements and

Prospects, pp. 2-18 (1991)

O. Schacter, The UN Legal Order: An Overview, in C.C. Joyner (ed.) The United
Nations and International Law, pp.3-24 (1997)

III. RELATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND MUNICIPAL LAW

Oppenheim, International Law, Vol. 1, pp.35-47 (8th ed., 1958, by Lauterpacht)

Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law, (Chap. II- The Relation of

Municipal and International Law), 3rd ed. (1985)

Fitzmaurice, The General Principles of International Law Considered from the

Standpoint of the Rule of Law, pp. 68-94, 92 Recueil des Cours 5 (II,
1957)

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Articles 27 and 46.

IV. SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

In General

Virally, The Sources of International Law, in Sorensen (ed.), Manual of Public

International Law, pp.118-122 (1968)

Schwarzenberger, International Law, in D.J. Harris (ed.), Cases and Materials

on International Law, pp. 21-23 (1998)

Rosalyn Higgins, Problems and Process: International Law and How We

Used It (1994), pp. 17-38.

Statute of the International Court of Justice, Art. 38. See Art. 59

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A. International Custom

Akehurst, Custom as a Source of International Law, 47 BYIL 53 (1974-75)

Koskenniemi, The Normative Force of Habit: International Custom and

Social Theory, I Finnish Yearbook of International Law 77, 77-119
(1990)

Virally, The Sources of International Law, in Sorensen (ed.), Manual of

Public International Law, pp.128-143 (1968)

Cases:

1) North Sea Continental Shelf Cases (1969). ICJ Reports, p.5-54

2) Case Concerning Military and Paramilitary Activities in and

Against Nicaragua, (1986) ICJ Reports, in particular pp.92-97

3) Case of SS Lotus, PCIJ Ser. A., No. 10 (1927)

4) Fisheries Case (United Kingdom v. Norway), 1951 I.C.J. 116

Phil. Cases

1) Kuroda v. Jalandoni, 83 Phil 171

2) Borovsky v. Commissioner, 90 Phil 107

3) Meijoff v. Director of Prisons, 90 Phil 70

4) Ichong v. Hernandez, 101 Phil 1156

5) Haw Pia v. China Banking, 80 Phil 604

6) USA v. Guinto, 182 SCRA 644

7) Pharmaceutical and Health Care Assoc. v. Duque, 53 SCRA 265

(2007)

8) Republic v. Sandiganbayan, 407 SCRA 10 (2003)

9) Boac v. Cadapan, G.R. Nos. 184461-62, 184495, 187109, May 3,

2011

B. General Principles of Law, Jus Cogens and Obligations Erga Omnes

Bruno Simma and Philip Alston, The Sources of Human Rights Law:
Custom, Jus Cogens and General Principles

Wiel, Towards Relative Normativity in International Law, 77 Am JIL423-42

(1983)

Friedmann, The Changing Structure of International Law, 196-200,

International Law Commission Report, (1996) II YB Intl L.C. 169,
247-249

Cases:

1) The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial (1945-56)

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 2) Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company (Second Phase)
(1962)

3) Genocide Convention Case (Bosnia and Herzegovina v.

Yugoslavia) (Provisional Measures) (1993)

4) Case Concerning East Timor (Portugal v. Australia), (1991)

5) Genocide Convention Case (Bosnia and Herzegovina v.

Yugoslavia) (Preliminary Objections) (1996)

6) Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic

Republic of the Congo v. Rwanda), (2006)

C. Treaties

Cases

1) Nuclear Test Cases (Australia v. France and New Zealand v.

France), (1975)
2) Texaco v. Libya (1977)
3) Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary v. Slovakia), (1997)
4) United States of America v. Iran (1980)

Reservations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the

Crime of Genocide, Advisory Opinion of 28 May 1951

Craven, Legal Differentiation and the Concept of the Human Rights

Treaty in International Law, 11 Eur. JIL 489, at 500 (2000)

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

Cases

1) Abbas v. COMELEC, 179 SCRA 287

2) Secretary of Justice v. Lantion, 343 SCRA 377
3) Guerreros Transport Services v. Blaylock, G.R. No. L-41518, June
30, 1976
4) Tolentino v. Secretary of Finance, 253 SCRA 630
5) Pimentel v. Executive Secretary, 462 SCRA 622
6) Agustin v. Edu, 88 SCRA 195
7) International School Alliance v. Quisumbing, 333 SCRA 13
8) Marcos v. Manglapus, 177 SCRA 668
9) Simon v. Commission on Human Rights, 229 SCRA 117
10) Philip Morris v. Court of Appeals, 224 SCRA 576 (1993)
11) La Chemise Lacoste v. Fernandez, 129 SCRA 373
12) Commissioner v. Gotamco and Sons, 148 SCRA 36
13) KLM Royal Dutch Airlines v. Court of Appeals, 65 SCRA 237
14) Lim v. Executive Secretary, G.R. No. 151445, April 11, 2002
15) Bayan Muna v. Executive Secretary, G.R. No. 158088, July 6, 2005
16) Abaya v. DPWH Secretary, G.R. No. 167919, February 4, 2007

V. INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

Statute of the International Court of Justice

Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons (Advisory Opinion)

Koskenniemi, Advisory Opinions of the ICJ as an Instrument of Preventive

Diplomacy

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 Franck, The Political and Judicial Empires: Must There be a Conflict over
Conflict Resolution?

LaGrand Case (Germany v. United States of America)

Lockerbie Case (Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures) (1992)

VI. INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSONALITY

U.N. Charter (excerpts)

Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations, ICJ
Reports

Admission to Membership, ICJ Reports

U.N. General Assembly Resolutions 1514 (1960), Declaration on the Granting
of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

U.N. General Assembly Resolutions 1514 (1962), Permanent Sovereignty

over Natural Resources

U.N. General Assembly Resolutions 2625 (1970), Declaration of Principles of

International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation
among States in Accordance with the Charter of the United Nations

Common Article I, ICCPR and ICESCR, and Optional Protocol to the ICCPR

General Comment No. 12, Self-Determination

U.N. General Assembly Resolutions 1803 (1962), Permanent Sovereignty

over Natural Resources

Case Concerning East Timor (supra.)

1949 Geneva Conventions, Reservations by the Democratic Republic of

Vietnam (1973)

International Catholic Migration Commission v. Calleja, 190 SCRA 130 (1990)

World Health Organization v. Aquino, 48 SCRA 242 (1972)

VII. STATE RESPONSIBILITY

Crawford, The International Law Commissions Articles on State

Responsibility, (39-43, 47-56)

Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (2001)

Corfu Channel Case

Nottebohm (Liechtenstein v. Guatemala)

Barcelona Traction, Light and Power (supra.)

Velasquez-Rodriguez v. Honduras, Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Asian Agricultural Products v. Sri Lanka, 30 ILM 577 (1991) ICSID

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IX. NON-USE OF FORCE and SELF-DEFENSE

UNGA Resolution 3314, Definition of Aggression

Wedgwood, The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Israeli Security Fence and the
Limits of Self-Defense, 99 Am. J. Intl L (2005)

Chinkin, Legality of NATOs Action in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia FRY)

under International Law, 49 ICLQ (2000)

Brownlie and C. Apperley, Kosovo Crisis Inquiry: Memorandumon the

International Law Aspects

The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia: The Decision of the

Appeals Chamber on Tadic Case, 45 ICLQ 691

Ratner, Jus ad bellum and Jus in bello after September 11, Am. J. Intl

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), War doesnt justify

Guantanamo

ICRC, The relevance of International Humanitarian Law in the context of

terrorism

Wedgwood, Al Quaeda, Terrorism and Military Commission and Military

Commissions, Am. J. Intl L.

(to be continued)