International Law Quiz

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International Law Quiz

Test your knowledge on the intricate world of international law with this comprehensive quiz designed for students, educators, and enthusiasts alike! Dive into questions about treaties, sovereignty, refugee rights, and more.

Key features include:

  • 49 challenging questions
  • Multiple choice and checkbox formats
  • A focus on fundamental principles of international law
49 Questions12 MinutesCreated by ExploringLaw101
Refer to laws that regulate relations of states and international persons
National Law
Treaty
International Law
Customary law,
Consists of rules of law derived from the consistent conduct of states, acting out of the belief that the law required them to act that way.
International Law
customary law
State practice
Regional custom
Opinion of law or necessity
Special custom
Things standing thus
Pacta sunt servanda
Rebuc sic stantibus
Pacta tertiis nec nocent nec prosunt
A legal bond having as its basis a social fact of attachment, a genuine connection of existence, interests and sentiments, together with the existence of reciprocal rights and duties
States
Nationality
Occurs when a territory belonging to any state is placed under the sovereignty of the claiming state
Prescription
Cession
Accretion
Conquest
Discovery & Occupation
Is a person who, owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.
GLOBALIZATION
REFUGEE
STATELESSNESS
NATIONALITY
Pertains to the status of having to nationality as a consequence of being born without a nationality or as a result of deprivation or loss of nationality
STATELESSNESS
NATIONALITY
REFUGEE
RIGHTS OF REFUGEES
Non-discrimination
Right to Equality
Right to Legation
Wage-earning employment
Right to Independence
Free access to courts
Self-employment
Housing
Right to Existence and Self-Defense
Freedom of religion
Principle of Non-refoulement
Duty of non-refoulement of states
Are a group of countries located in the same geographically specified area
Regionalization
Regions –
Regionalism
Is a political process characterized by economic policy cooperation and coordination among countries
Regionalism
Regionalization
Regions
Its main aim is to pursue world peace, international cooperation, human rights, national sovereignty, racial and national equality, non-intervention, peaceful conflict resolution
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
The Soviet Union
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Established in 1960 by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to regulate the production and sale of oil.
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
The Soviet Union
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Is an “imagined community” according to Benedict Anderson
NATION
STATE
INTERSTATE SYSTEM
It is a system of unequally powerful and competing states in which no single state is capable of imposing control on all others
Internationalism
INTERSTATE SYSTEM
Globalism
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION (IO)
It is an ideology based on the belief that flow of people, goods and information should flow freely across national borders.
Globalism
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION (IO)
Internationalism
INTERSTATE SYSTEM
It is a system of heightened interaction between various sovereign states, particularly the desire for greater cooperation and unity among states and people.
Internationalism
Globalism
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION (IO)
INTERSTATE SYSTEM
Founded on October 24, 1945
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
UNITED NATIONS
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
The Soviet Union
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
It is the main decision-making and representative assembly and is responsible for upholding the principles of the UN through its policies and recommendations.
UN Security Council
International Court of Justice
Economic and Social Council
Secretariat
UN General Assembly
Assists the UN General Assembly in promoting economic and social development as well as cooperation of member states (54 members; 3-year term)
International Court of Justice
Economic and Social Council
UN Security Council
UN General Assembly
Secretariat
Headed by the Secretary General, provides studies, information and other dates when needed by other UN branches for their meetings
Economic and Social Council
UN Security Council –
Secretariat
International Court of Justice
UN General Assembly
Can settle, according to international law, legal disputes between states and give opinions, mostly advisory, on legal questions brought to it by UN organs and agencies.
UN General Assembly
International Court of Justice
Economic and Social Council
Secretariat
UN Security Council –
An international agreement conducted between states, in written form and governed by international law
International Law
National Law
Treaty
It is mainly based under Section 2 Article II of the 1987 Philippine Constitution which states that “the Philippines adopts the generally accepted principles of International Law as part of the law of the land.”
Doctrine of Transformation
. Doctrine of Incorporation
There must be substantial uniformity of practice by a number of states
Opinion of law or necessity –
State practice
Regional custom
Special custom
Is a long-continued practice between two states, accepted them as regulating their relations that form the basis of mutual rights and obligations
Regional custom
Opinion of law or necessity
Special custom –
State practice
2 elements of international customs
Regional custom
State practice
Special custom
Opinion of law or necessity
A treaty binds the parties and only the parties
Pacta sunt servanda –
Pacta tertiis nec nocent nec prosunt –
Rebuc sic stantibus –
Are entities which have rights and responsibilities under international law and which have the capacity to maintain their rights by bringing international claims
Nationality –
States
Government
Capacity to enter into relations with other states
Prescription
Cession
Permanent population
Discovery & Occupation
Accretion
Defined territory
Conquest
It is the increase in the land area of a state, either through natural means or artificially through human labor
Conquest
Accretion
Cession
Prescription
Discovery & Occupation –
Precludes the recognition of any government established as a result of external aggression
Lauterpacht Doctrine
Stimson Doctrine
Betancourt Doctrine
Wilson / Tobar Doctrine
This doctrine precludes the recognition of governments established by revolution, civil war, coup d’etat, or other forms of internal violence until freely elected representatives of the people have organized a constitutional government
Wilson / Tobar Doctrine
Betancourt Doctrine
Lauterpacht Doctrine
Stimson Doctrine
It precludes the recognition of an entity which is not legally a state as it constitutes an abuse of the power of recognition
Lauterpacht Doctrine
Stimson Doctrine
Betancourt Doctrine
Wilson / Tobar Doctrine
This doctrine pertains to denial of diplomatic recognition to any regime, right or left, which came to power by military force
Stimson Doctrine
Lauterpacht Doctrine
Betancourt Doctrine
Wilson / Tobar Doctrine
It is a principle wherein in addition to not returning the refugee to his/her own state, he/she must not be sent to a third state if his/her life or freedom would there be threatened on account of his/her race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or social opinion
Self-employment
Principle of Non-refoulement
Regionalization
Regionalism
- It is a regional association for military defense
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
The Soviet Union
Ntemporary Challenges to Regionalism
Resurgence of militant nationalism and populism
Limits placed upon its various organs and programs by the need to respect state sovereignty.
Issues related to security
The name "United Nations", coined by
President Frankline D. Roosevelt
President Franklin D. Rosevelt
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Francklin D. Roosevelt
It has sovereignty over its territory
NATION
STATE
Agreements must be kept
Pacta sunt servanda
Pacta tertiis nec nocent nec prosunt
Rebuc sic stantibus
This is when a territory is acquired through continuous and uninterrupted possession over a long period of time
Discovery & Occupation –
Cession –
Accretion –
Conquest –
Prescription –
Occurs when a territory belonging to any state is placed under the sovereignty of the claiming state
Prescription
Cession
Discovery & Occupation
Accretion
Conquest
Responded by creating its regional alliance, the Warsaw Pact. However, it imploded in December 1991 while NATO remains in place
The Soviet Union
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
Laws that regulate individuals among themselves or within the state
International Law
National Law
Treaty
This doctrine must be related to the power of the President to enter into treaties wherein rule and principles embodied in said treaties would be transformed into Philippine law and would become valid and effective upon concurrence of 2/3 of all the members of the Senate
Doctrine of Incorporation
Doctrine of Transformation
Is a long-continued practice between two states, accepted them as regulating their relations that form the basis of mutual rights and obligations
Regional custom
Special custom
State practice
Opinion of law or necessity –
INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMS Also known as
National Law
Treaty
State practice
Regional custom
Customary law
Special custom
Is a practice among states within a particular area of the world which can be sufficiently well established and accepted as law that is binding among the states of that region
Special custom
State practice
Opinion of law or necessity –
Regional custom
It is an act by which a state acknowledges the existence of another state, government or belligerent community and indicate its willingness to deal with the entity as such under the rules of international law
STATE RECOGNITION
NATIONALITY
STATELESSNESS
REFUGEE
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