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SVKM'S NMIMS

RIRIT P. MEHTA SCHOOL 0F LA


Academic Year: 2018-2019

/£rogramB.B.A.,L.L.B Year: III Semester VI

Subject: Ititermational Law /


Time:2 hrs (10:30 am to 12:30 pin) ~
Date : 18th April 2019 /
No. of pages: 0&
I Marks: 60 <~ FINAL EXAMINATION -.--- ` -----.-----..------- _.
Instructions: Candidates should read carefully the instructions printed on the question paper and on
the cover of the Answer Book, which is provided for their use.

1) Section A, 8 and D is compulsory.


2) From Section C, attempt any 2 questions.
3) Answer to each new question to be started on a fresh page.
4) Figures in brackets on the right hand side indicate full marks.

Section A

Question 1 (10 marks)


Write short notes on the following:

a) Difference between dejure and de facto recognition


b) Subjects of International Law

Section 8

Question 2
(15 marks)
"Custom within contemporary legal systems, particularly in the developed world, is relatively cumbersome
andunimportantandoftenofonlynostalgicvalue.In.internationallawontheotherhanditisadynamic
sourceoflawirithelightof€Tnenatueoftheirii.err,atior,aisystemanditsiackofcentralizedsystems."

a) What are the various sources of lntemational Law? What is state practice? What are the elements of
international custom? (5 yTunrfksJ
b) What is opiniojuris? (5 marks)

c) What is instant customary law? Who is a persistent objector? Explain giving examples (5 marks)

Section C

a::¥e)r any two of the following: (20

Question 3
"Precisely because States cannot in principle control the activities of other States on the high seas, so that
users of the seas remain at liberty to do as they please apart from a few restrictive rules, and also because

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new ocean technology is constantly developing, the freedoms of the high seas cannot be exh,austively
listed." Comment. What are the freedoms of the high seas? Explain.

Question 4
What is the principle of proportionality as it applies to the law of extradition? State A requests the
extradition of a fugitive from State 8. The fugitive is accused of having committed political crimes in State
A. Will it succeed? Give reasons.

Question 5

State C enters into a treaty with State D to perseoute and enslave an ethnic group of people found in both
States. Examine the validity of such a treaty under international law. Give reasons.

Section D

Question 6 (15 marks)


"The widespread advent of humanitarian intervention with military force emerged after the Cold War. The
model was established in 1991, following the Gulf War that expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait."

A) What is humanitarian intervention? Explain using examples.


8) What are the obstacles to effective intervention? What are the unintended consequences of
inteivention? Explain using examples.
C) How does intervention erode the norm of sovereignty? Explain using examples.

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