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The Modern approach expands the definition to include relations not only between states but also relations

p.1 What are the three main schools of International law p.2 Who is considered he father of International law? p.3 Is International Law true law? p.3 How is the consent of States to be bound by International Law manifested? p.3 What is the basis of International Law? p.3 What is International comity (comitas gentium)? p.4 May rules of comity develop into rules of customary international law? p.4 Under international law differentiate hard law from soft law p.4 Is soft law a law? p. 5 Distinguish Public International Law from Private International Law? p.5 What institutions are involved in the development of International Law? p.5 What does the Constitution of the Philippines provide with reference to international law? p.6 What are the sources of international law? p. 7 What are the principal sources of International Law? p.8 In the absence of a treaty governing the relations between two or more States on a Particular subject, what is the evidence of existence of International Law? p.8 What are the sources of evidence of the existence of a customary norm of International Law? p.8 May the Philippine Courts take judicial notice of the existence of rules or principles of International Law? p.9 What is a norm? p.9 How are International law norms and principles created? p.9 What is a treat? p.9 What are the law making treaties? p.10 May the provisions of treaty ripen into customary norms? p.10 What is the primary source of the law of treaties? p.10 What is the scope of the 1980 Vienna Convention on the law of Treaties? p.11 What is the effect of Vienna Convention on rules of Customary International Law? p. 11 What law governs treaties between States and international organizations or between international organizations themselves? p.11 Name some treaties to which the Philippines are a party? p.11 What are the other terms used for a treaty or international agreement? What is the legal significance of the title used? p.12 What is a concordat? p. 12 What is a modus Vivendi? p.12 What is the effect of the definition of a treaty under the Vienna convention on international agreements that are not within the scope of its definition? p.12 What are the restrictions on the subject matter of treaties? p.13

May a treat violate international law? If your answer is in the affirmative, explain when such may happen. If your answer is in the negative, explain why? p.13 May a treaty become binding upon a State which is not a party to it? p.13 What is Jus Cogens norm? p.13 What are the three groups of Jus Cogens norms? p.14 Distinguish jus cogens from jus dispositivum? p.14 What doest the treaty-making process include? p. 14 When is a person considered as representing a State for the Purpose of adopting or authenticating the text of a treat or for the purpose of expressing the consent of State to be bound by a treaty? p.15 Who are exempted from producing a Full Powers? p.15 What is the legal effect of an act relating to the conclusion of a treaty performed by a person who cannot be considered Under Art. 7 of the Vienna Convention as authorized to represent a State for that Purpose? p. 16 What is Alternat? p.16 Under Philippine Law, what are the guidelines in the negotiation and ratification of treaties and international agreements? p.16 What are the norm of conclusions or means of expressing consent to be bound by a treaty? p.16 When is a treaty concluded by a State by the mere signature of its representatives? p. 17 When is a treaty concluded by exchange of instruments? p. 17 When is a treaty concluded by ratification, acceptance or approval? p. 17 Under Philippines law, who has the power to make treaties? p. 18 Under Philippine law, is he concurrence of the Senate Necessary for the validity and effectivity of a treaty or an international agreement? p.18 Under the Constitution, what is the role of the Senate in the conduct of foreign affairs? p. 18 The President alone without the concurrence of the Senate abrogated a treaty. Assume that the other country-party to the treaty is agreeable to the abrogation provided it complies with the Philippine Constitution. If a case involving the validity of the treaty abrogation is brought to the Supreme Court, How should it be resolved? p.19 Is the President bound under treaty law and International Law to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court after it was signed by the Philippine Mission to the United Nations through Charge d Affairs Enrique A Manalo? p.19 What is Accession? p.20 What is reservation? p.20 Are States allowed to formulate a reservation when signing, ratifying, approving or acceding to a treaty? p.20 What is the principle of PACTA SUNT SERVANDA? p. 20 What are the General Rule on interpretation of treaties? p. 21 Define Travaux Preapratoieres? p. 21

What is the rule on interpretation of a treaty that has been authenticated in two or more languages? p.22 What are the grounds for the invalidation of a States consent to be bound by a treaty? p.22 When is error a valid ground for the invalidation of a States consent to be bound by a treaty? p.22 When is fraud a valid ground for the invalidation of a States consent to be bound by a treaty> p.23 When is corruption of a valid ground for the invalidation of a States consent to be bound by a treaty? p. 23 What is the legal effect of the coercion of a representative of the State on its consent to be bound by a treaty? p.23 What is the effect of the coercion of the State by the threat or use of force on the validity of a treaty? p.23 Are treaties conflicting with a peremptory norm of general International Law (jus cogens) valid? p.23 What is the legal effect of the emergence of a new peremptory norm (jus cogens) on existing treaties? p.24 May a state invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty? p. 24 When may a treaty be terminated or suspended? p.24 What constitutes breach as a ground for termination or suspension of a treaty? p.24 What is the effect of a supervening impossibility of performance on the effectivity of a treaty? p.25 What is rebus sic stantibus? p.25 Is rebus sic stantibus a valid ground for terminating or withdrawing from a treaty? p.25 What are the requisistes of terminating or withdrawing from a treaty on the ground of rebus sic stantibus? p.25 What is the effect of the severance of diplomatic or consular relations between parties to a treaty? p.26 May Statutes that have no diplomatic or consular relations conclude treaties? p.26 What is the effect or war or outbreak or hostilities between states which are parties to a treaty? p.26 What is an armed conflict for purposes of the 1985 Helsinki Session of the Institut de Droit International? p.26 Is there a distinction between a treaty and an executive agreement? p.27

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