The aim:
1. To provide general understanding of the responsibility and liability of subjects of international law.
2. To provide basic knowledge on the consequences of breaches of international obligations.
3. To provide general outline of the implementation of international responsibility.

Acquired knowledge:
1. Students have knowledge of the nature of international responsibility.
2. Students have knowledge of the rules on attributing responsibility to subjects of international law.

Acquired skills:
1. Student is able to identify a breach of international rule and the possible legal consequences thereof.
2. Student is able to analyse the facts of a case with application of relevant legal norms and case-law.
3. Student is able to compare types of responsibility of different subjects.

Acquired social skills:
1. Student is able to present results of problem analysis.

Course contents: 
1. The notion of responsibility.
2. Introduction. Responsibility as a consequence of personality under International Law.
3. Codification of State Responsibility.
4. The Elements of an Internationally Wrongful Act.
5. Breach of Obligations, Circumstances Precluding Wrongfulness.
6. Attribution of Conduct to the State, to International Organizations and Other Entities.
7. The Content of International Responsibility; Modalities of Reparation; The Implementation of International Responsibility, Invocation of Responsibility.
8. Responsibility of International Organizations and related concepts.
9. Individual criminal responsibility.

Recommended reading: 
1. Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, International Law Commission, UN . Geneva 2001.
2. Articles on Responsibility of International Organizations:, -, -. – 1998.
3. Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, International Law Commission, UN. Geneva 2011.

Additional reading: 
1. The Law of International Responsibility, Crawford, J.; Pellet, A. Olleson, S. (eds.), OUP. Oxford 2010