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PIL
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
Pick where you want to start
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.
Sources
Start hereSort a claim into treaty, custom, general principle, or soft law, and say what that does to the argument.
Statehood and jurisdiction
After Sources — test out to unlockWork a statehood, recognition, and jurisdiction (territorial, nationality, universal) problem.
Treaties
After Statehood and jurisdiction — test out to unlockApply VCLT basics: formation, reservation, interpretation, and material breach.
Use of force
After Treaties — test out to unlockApply UN Charter 2(4), self-defence, and Security Council authorisation to a force problem.
Human rights
After Use of force — test out to unlockPlace a rights claim in the right instrument and say what a state must actually do.
International courts
After Human rights — test out to unlockKnow when the ICJ, ICC, or a treaty body can hear a dispute, and what a judgment actually binds.
What this is for
- 01
Sort a claim into treaty, custom, general principle, or soft law, and say what that does to the argument.
- 02
Work a statehood, recognition, and jurisdiction (territorial, nationality, universal) problem.
- 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.