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Question text In chapter 1 of the textbook, which of the below best describes how John Currie summarizes what public international law is? - correct answer It comprises a set of formal rules and customary practices that together define the legal rights, and govern the interactions, of international legal subjects. Question text According to Currie, unlike most domestic legal systems, international law has very little hierarchical organization, and no formal or written constitution establishing general law-making or law-enforcing institutions or otherwise distributing powers of governance. These traits have led to international law often being described as what? - correct answer Decentralized. According to Currie, which of the below best describes the most fundamental paradox of international law that continues to affect its legitimacy as a "true" system of law? - correct answer if modern states are sovereign, meaning not subject to external sources of authority, how is it possible to conceive of a system of law that will regulate their conduct? Question text According to Currie, which of the below thinkers applied natural law theories to describing and prescribing the system of law governing the interactions of the increasingly autonomous polities in Europe leading up to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648? - correct answer Hugo Grotius. Question text According to Currie, the Nuremberg war crimes trials of Nazi leaders following the Second World War confirmed what already nascent notion at the time? - correct answer That individuals, and not only states, could be held accountable as a matter of international law for certain acts. Question text In chapter 4 of the textbook, which of the below best describes how John Currie defines a treaty, based on the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and customary international law? - correct answer An international agreement; ii) between subjects of international law; iii) formed with intent to create binding legal obligations; and iv) governed by international law. According to Currie, which of the below best describes how we can assess a party's intent to be bound by a treaty? - correct answer Evaluate the purported evidence of the party's intent to become bound against their ordinary practice regarding treaties, such as whether they have departed from the usual formalities of such agreements. Question text According to Currie, which of the below is associated with the fundamental principle that every treaty in force is binding upon the parties to it and must be performed by them in good faith? - correct answer Pacta Sunt Servanda. Question text According to Currie, which of the below best summarizes the general rule regarding reservations to treaties? - correct answer The correct answer is: Reservations are permissible unless prohibited by the treaty, or incompatible with the treaty's object and purpose. Question text According to Currie, which agreements below allow reservations to their provisions? - correct answer The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Question text In chapter 2 of the textbook, John Currie notes that the International Court of Justice defined the criteria for international legal personality in the Reparations Case as what? - correct answer A subject of international law is capable of possessing international rights and duties, and has capacity to maintain its rights by bringing international claims. Question text According to Currie, Article 1 of the Montevideo Convention restates the customary criteria for statehood as what? - correct answer i) a permanent population; ii) a defined territory; iii) a government; iv) a capacity to enter into relations with other states. Question text According to Currie, what was the main international legal issue addressed in the Austro-German Customs Union case? - correct answer Whether a 1931 customs treaty between Austria and Germany constituted an alienation by Austria of its independence. According to Currie, what does the constitutive theory of recognition hold? - correct answer That recognition by other states is an essential prerequisite of statehood. Question text According to Currie, by far the most successful examples of the exercise of a right of external self-determination are what? - correct answer The correct answer is: Sub-national groups in the colonial context. Question text In the assigned reading from the textbook, John Currie notes that the law of the sea generally addresses what? - correct answer The nature of the legal relationship between states and various maritime zones lying off the coasts of coastal states. Question text According to Currie, the most basic rule of the law of the sea is what? - correct answer The correct answer is: The Earth's oceans, the high seas, constitute a res communis, freely available for use - including navigation, fishing, or otherwise - by all states. - correct answer The right of innocent passage by foreign vessels. Question text According to Currie, under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the maximum seaward extent for a coastal state's contiguous zone is what? - correct answer The correct answer is: 24 nautical miles from the coastal state's baselines, yielding a maximum contiguous zone of 12 nautical miles. According to Currie, which of the below statements is most accurate? - correct answer Canada's legal claims to its Arctic archipelago have been controversial because they treat the waters between the islands of the archipelago as part of Canada's internal waters, and thus subject to its full sovereignty. Question text In the assigned online reading, Ian Hurd notes that the International Court of Justice provides what two important functions in world politics? - correct answer The Court's decisions constitute formal and explicit legal judgments regarding who is right and wrong in a given dispute; and these decisions enter into the political discourse of states, despite the absence of precedent, and may have substantial influence beyond their legal terms. Question text According to Hurd, which of the below is not accurate? - correct answer In the case between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Belgium (the Yerodia case), the ICJ held that a Congolese government minister suspected of inciting genocide could be prosecuted by Belgian courts. estion text According to Hurd, which of the below is most accurate? - correct answer States are generally worse at complying with "provisional measures" of the ICJ than they are at complying with the Court's final judgments. Question text According to Hurd, an advisory opinion of the ICJ is "advisory" in what sense? - correct answer It does not create any legally binding obligations on any state or organization, yet it has some legal and perhaps political authority since it represents the considered judgement of the Court on the question of international law at issue. After a confrontation with Spanish fishing trawlers on the high seas off the east coast of Canada, the Canadian government pre-empted an expected Spanish complaint by adding an exclusion clause to its acceptance of compulsory jurisdiction before the ICJ. According to Hurd, what is the significance of this example? - correct answer It shows how it is possible in international relations to micromanage one's legal obligations.