LAWS50024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Berlin Wall, Presbyterian Polity, Meritocracy

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Law
• Course: LAWS50024
• Professor: Margaret Young

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Does un have supremacy over other areas of il (e. g. wto, human rights, and environmental agreement etc. ) Institutional influences as major international body: article 103: given conflict between obligations under the charter and those under any other i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)atio(cid:374)al ag(cid:396)ee(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:862)thei(cid:396) o(cid:271)ligatio(cid:374)s u(cid:374)de(cid:396) the cha(cid:396)te(cid:396) p(cid:396)e(cid:448)ail(cid:863) Principal organs of the un: general assembly (deals with more broad objectives of cooperation between states to resolve issues) Type of (cid:858)pa(cid:396)lia(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:859) of the un: all states can join un and participate in ga. Article 4 of the charter: all nations can apply for membership to the un; open body to all nations and all members can participate in the general assembly. Article 9: composition of the general assembly: all nation states make up the general assemble. Sovereign equality: equal vote at the general assembly art 18(1) 2/3 majority for decisions: ideal of representation, don"t need unanimous agreement art 18(3)