INTERNATIONAL LAW
W.B. Fisch, Fall 2008
Assignment #18

Ch. 8) INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, PEOPLES, AND NON-GOVERMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

A. International Organizations

1. Overview

a. League of Nations: what was the role of the U.S.?

b. United Nations

i. organs and agencies

(1) principal organs

(2) subsidiary agencies

ii. Peacekeeping function of the Security Council

(1) military resources

(2) role of the veto

(3) right of self-defense

2. International Personality

a. THE REPARATIONS CASE, p. 474 (ICJ 1949)

i. How did the case get to the ICJ?

ii. What was the principal issue in the case, and what were the principal arguments on either side?

iii. How does the Court resolve it?

iv. What is the position of the UN vis-a-vis non-member states – on what theory would they be bound to recognize the UN’s legal personality?

C. Non-governmental Organizations

1) International Committee of the Red Cross and other Humanitarian NGOs

2) NGOs in International Environmental Law

3) ECOSOC and its standards of recognition: are these generally applicable criteria for the legitimacy and recognition of NGOs in international law?