International Institutional Law

3 credits

International Organizations differ by their objectives, structure, size and other characteristics. However, they all face similar issues and problems, and they all have similar institutional rules to deal with them, which have in the decades since the appearance and expansion of international organizations evolved into a substantial body of law.The main objective of this course is to familiarize students with the fundamentals of international institutional law and the main institutional characteristics of international organizations. Key institutional rules and principles will be discussed, as well as their application in practice, following the concept of legal position and functional necessity as departing point and axis of the study.