TAMIL NADU NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY

(A University established under the Tamil Nadu Act No. 9 of 2012)

Dindigul Main Road, Navalur Kuttapattu
Tiruchirappalli 620 027
Tamil Nadu, India

B.A. LL.B. (H) and B.Com. LL.B. (H)

COURSE SYLLABUS

LAW OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

Objectives:
The course aims at to assess the theoretical and current practical debates in understanding how
international politics. The course also gives new approaches and insights to the international
institutions and the limitations in achieving the global world order. The course also predominantly
covers relationship between power politics and global world order by conferring Legitimacy,
Accountability and influences of the International Institutions. The course also intends to analyse
various homogeny rules set forth in intergovernmental organizations and specialized agencies
administering the global justice between generations. Students are encouraged to critically evaluate
the position and relevance international institutions in the international politics. The students are
also encouraged to evaluate the working system of the various regional institutions in international
law by referring to various case study.

Historical Evolution MODULE 1

Evolution and growth of International Organisations - Nature and Scope of International

Organization - League of Nations - United Nations - Types of International Organisation - Regional
Organs - Nature and Legal personality - Principles and Purposes of United Nations - Structure
Composition and functions of organs of United Nations - Law making process - UN Peace
Keeping Function - Dispute Settlement Body - Specialised Agencies - Inter Governmental
Organisation - Non Governmental Organisation

United Nations Organization MODULE 2

Formation of United Nations Organization - Purpose and Principle - Principal Organs of the United
Nations - Law making process in the United Nations Resolutions - UN Peace Keeping Function -
Economic and Social Council - International Court of Justice - Peaceful and coercive methods of
settlement of international disputes - Role of United Nations in settlement of international disputes -
Subsidiary Organs UNEP/UNDP/UNESCO - Domestic Jurisdiction

Specialized Agencies MODULE 3

Establishment of Specialised Agencies - Structure and functions of Specialised Agencies -

International Economic and Financial Institutions - ITO-IMF-IBRD-GATT/WTO -International
Labour Organisation (ILO) - International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) - International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - International Committee for Red Cross (ICRC) - North Atlantic
Treaty Organisation (NATO) - World Meterological Organisation (WMO) - International Maritime
Organisation

Regional Organization/Institutions MODULE 4

Regional Institutions and the United Nations Charter - Establishment of Regional Institutions -
Structure and functions of Regional Institutions - South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation
(SAARC) - Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) - European Union (EU) -
Organisation of American States (OAS) - Organisation of African Union (OAU) - United Arab
Emirates

Dispute Settlement Mechanism MODULE 5

Dispute Settlement Body - Historical Evolution - Permanent Court of Arbitration - Permanent

Court of International Justice - Pacific Settlement of Disputes - International Court of Justice -
Alternate Dispute Resolution Settlement Mechanism - United Nations Commission on International
Trade Law (UNCITRAL) - Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) mechanism - Dispute Settlement
Body in World Trade Organisation (WTO-DSB) - International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
(ITLOS) - International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) - European Court of
Human Right (ECHR) - International Criminal Court (ICC).

Required Readings:
1. Philippe Sands and Pierre Klein - Bowett’s Law International Institutions, (Sweet &
Maxwell, 2001)
2. S. S. Goodspeed - The Nature and Function of International Organization, (First Edition,
Oxford University Press, 1959)

3. Charles Henry Alexandrowicz - The Law-making functions of the Specialised agencies of

the United Nations, (Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1973)
4. Ingrid Detter - Law Making by International Organizations, (P. A. Norstedt & Soners
Forlag, 1965)
5. Dr. Rahmatullah Khan - Implied Powers of the United Nations, (Vikas Publications, 1970)
6. Hugh Thirlway - The Law and Procedure of the International Court of Justice, (Oxford
University Press, 2013)
7. Felice Morgen Stern - Legal Problems of International Organisation, (Research Centre of
International Law, Cambridge University, 1986)
8. Rosalyn Higgins - The Development of International Law through the Political Organs of
the United Nations, (Oxford University Press, 1963)
9. Edward Yemin - Legislative Powers in the UN and Specialized Agencies, (A. W. Sijthoff,
1969)
10. Thomas M. Franck, Fairness in International Law and Institutions, (Clarendon Press, 1995)
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