The course is aimed at providing a basic knowledge of the features and main institutions of the international community legal system, in order to allow the understanding of the rules and procedures on which relations between States are based. The course also means to give a basic knowledge of international private and procedural law, which is necessary to deal with the key issues of this discipline, such as the determination of jurisdiction in cases featuring elements related to foreign countries, the ascertainment of the applicable law in cases featuring connections with different legal systems and the recognition of foreign judgments. The course also means to provide the students with the ability to analyze international documents, to study international cases and controversies and to come up with appropriate solutions. Students are expected to be able to correctly recognize the essential elements and the functioning of the rules of public and private international law, as well as to analyze and solve practical cases with reference to the main features of the subject (application of treaties, international responsibility, determination of the law applicable to cases with extraneous elements). The course endeavors to foster the student’s capacity to utilize in an appropriate fashion the legal language employed in the field which constitutes the subject matter of study and the ability to argue with independence of judgment and by the means of evaluation instruments aimed at correctly applying the rules that have been studied.