1) 1. Discuss the significance of the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ICJ Reps 2004, for: a) international humanitarian law or b) international human rights law
2. Discuss the difference between naturalism and positivism as ways of understanding the sources of international law?
3) Country X is experiencing a civil conflict on its territory with an ethnic minority that seeks independence. The minority receives logistical support and weapons from country Y, whose army, however, never enters the territory of X and does not control the military operations of the ethnic minority. Critically examine the following issues:
a. Does country X possess the right to self-defence under Art.51 UN Charter against country Y?
b. Would the Security Council be entitled to regulate the civil conflict, assuming that country Y did not provide any support to the minority?
c. If country X had sufficient and credible information that neighbouring country Z was preparing to make a land invasion against it, would it be entitled to use military force against Z as a means of pre-emptive self-defence?