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PROGRAM ONE
Nature and Sources
PROGRAM TWO
States
PROGRAM THREE
Law of Treaties
PROGRAM FOUR
International Human Rights
PROGRAM FIVE
International Organization
PROGRAM SIX
Use of Force
PROGRAM SEVEN
International Dispute Settlement
PROGRAM EIGHT
International Criminal Law
PROGRAM NINE
Global Concerns
PROGRAM TEN
International Economic Law
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education Center for International Education
 
In cooperation with The American Society of International Law
 
  

Program 2: STATES

States can be very large or very small. A state may be as large as China with a population of over one billion or as small as Nauru with a population of less than 10,000. But no matter how large or how small, at least in theory, all states are sovereign, equal an independent.

United Nations membership is open only to states. The sovereign equality of states is a fundamental tenet of its Charter.

Criteria of statehood; Sovereignty; Role of states in international law; Recognition; Succession; Immunities; Rights and duties; State responsibility.

On-Camera Participants
(In order of appearance)

Professor F. Defeis
Seton Hall University School of Law
Narrator

Oscar Schachter
Columbia University School of Law

Professor Louis Henkin
Columbia University

Dr. Danilo Turk
Permanent Mission of Slovenia to the UN

Honorable Rosalyn Higgins
The International Court of Justice