Legal analysis of the phenomenon of international organizations (IOs), with particular reference to the international protection of human rights (HRs).

Knowledge and understanding: knowledge of the institutional functioning of associative phenomena, with a specific reference to IOs; and of the activities they carry out for the international protection of HRs. Applying knowledge and understanding: ability to frame the current legal problems of IOs and of international protection of HRs. Making judgments: acquisition and application of the legal tools for the understanding of dynamics concerning IOs and HRs. Communications skills: ability to elaborate, in oral and written form, legally correct information, solidly based on normative data, concerning the functioning of IOs, especially in the area of HRs. Learning skills: maturation of a capacity of reading the dynamics of cooperation among States in the perspective of their possible future developments.

Human Rights Law: origin, structure and characteristics of HR norms; Source of HR law; UN system of HR protection; regional systems of HR protection; the content of HR law International Organization Law: subjectivity, classification and structure of IOs; Internal legal order and secondary acts adopted by IOs. Immunities of IOs; international responsibility of IOs for wrongful acts.

J. Klabbers, An Introduction to International Organizations Law, Cambridge, 2022, IV ed.: CHAPTERS 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10. M. Hartwig, International Organizations or Institutions, Responsibility and Liability, in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (https://opil.ouplaw.com/display/10.1093/law:epil/9780199231690/law-9780199231690-e509?rskey=prUC0w&result=6&prd=MPIL) P. Pustorino, Introduction to International Human Rights Law, Asser Press – Springer, 2023. Additional readings will be suggested during the course.

Traditional lessons, seminars, exercises.

Evaluation will take place as follows: -A first written exam will test the acquired knowledge of HR law. The exam will account for 40% of the final mark. - A second written exam will test the acquired knowledge of IOs law. The exam will account for 40% of the final mark. - An oral exam, that will consist of a single oral question on any random part of the entire syllabus, accounting for the remaining 20% of the final mark. For students registered as non-attending/ who have not taken the written exams/declined their marks, they will seat for an oral exam consisting in questions on any part of the entire syllabus.

Final grade must be no less than 27.