The constituent instrument of the United Nations — purposes and principles, membership, the organs, and the enforcement powers of the Security Council.
The sections below are the ones the LL.B. papers examine on this Act, with the unit that covers each and the cases decided on it. The official text is on India Code ↗.
Sections in the syllabus
s. 2(c)
s. 3
s. 3(1)
s. 3(2)
s. 3(3)
s. 7(1)
s. 7(4)
s. 10 to 14
Covered in Unit 1 · Nature and Sources.
s. 21
s. 21(b)
s. 23, 24, 25, 27, 39, 41, 42 and 51
Covered in Unit 3 · Treaties and the United Nations.
s. 34
s. 51
s. 100 and 105
Covered in Unit 1 · Nature and Sources.
s. 120B
s. 222
s. 302
s. 307
s. 382
s. 387
s. Art. 68
Covered in Unit 1 · History and Philosophy of Human Rights.
s. Art. 71
Covered in Unit 2 · International Conventions and Protocols.
s. Arts. 55 and 56
Covered in Unit 1 · History and Philosophy of Human Rights.
Cases on this Act
- Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations (1949)
- Asylum Case (Colombia v. Peru) (1950)
- Right of Passage over Indian Territory (Portugal v. India) (Merits, 1960)
- Temple of Preah Vihear (Cambodia v. Thailand) (Merits, 1962)
- Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons (1996)
- In Re Berubari Union (I) (1960)
- Jolly George Verghese v. The Bank of Cochin (1980)
- Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America) (Merits, 1986)
- LaGrand (Germany v. United States of America) (2001)
- The Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (2001) — an instrument study
- Fisheries Case (United Kingdom v. Norway) (1951)
- Corfu Channel Case (United Kingdom v. Albania) (1949)
- North Sea Continental Shelf Cases (Federal Republic of Germany / Denmark; Federal Republic of Germany / Netherlands) (1969)
- Continental Shelf (Tunisia / Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (1982)
- Republic of Italy v. Union of India (2013)
- Abu Salem Abdul Qayoom Ansari v. State of Maharashtra (2010)
- United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran (United States of America v. Iran) (1980)
- Jadhav Case (India v. Pakistan) (2019)
- The International Health Regulations (2005), as amended — an instrument study