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Public International Law

Sources, states, treaties, force, and courts. Later headings open after the one before. Read a PIL fact pattern — sources, jurisdiction, treaties, force, and courts — the way an introductory international-law course would.

  • 6 headings
  • Ladder
  • Test out a heading you have
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A class on this path

Sources · First class

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Each heading is its own course. Later ones open when you finish — or skip — the one before. A later course does not reteach earlier bands.

  1. Sources

    Start here

    Sort a claim into treaty, custom, general principle, or soft law, and say what that does to the argument.

  2. Statehood and jurisdiction

    After Sources — test out to unlock

    Work a statehood, recognition, and jurisdiction (territorial, nationality, universal) problem.

  3. Treaties

    After Statehood and jurisdiction — test out to unlock

    Apply VCLT basics: formation, reservation, interpretation, and material breach.

  4. Use of force

    After Treaties — test out to unlock

    Apply UN Charter 2(4), self-defence, and Security Council authorisation to a force problem.

  5. Human rights

    After Use of force — test out to unlock

    Place a rights claim in the right instrument and say what a state must actually do.

  6. International courts

    After Human rights — test out to unlock

    Know when the ICJ, ICC, or a treaty body can hear a dispute, and what a judgment actually binds.

What this is for

  1. 01

    Sort a claim into treaty, custom, general principle, or soft law, and say what that does to the argument.

  2. 02

    Work a statehood, recognition, and jurisdiction (territorial, nationality, universal) problem.

  3. 03

    Apply VCLT basics: formation, reservation, interpretation, and material breach.

Why a path, not a playlist

Sources, states, treaties, force, and courts. Later headings open after the one before.

Each heading is its own course with a tutor. Later headings open when you finish — or test out of — the one before.

After you sign in

  • You land on this map — every heading is already there.
  • Take the open class, or test out of a later heading to unlock it.
  • Each heading is one shared course — same syllabus and first class for everyone. Later classes continue on your copy.

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