College of Law

Master’s Thesis in Human Rights Law on the Succession of States in their Responsibility for International Crimes,,,
On Monday, October 31, 2022, the Human Rights Law Branch at the College of Law at the University of Mosul discussed a master’s thesis on the succession of states in their responsibility for international crimes, a part of which was attended by a number of members of the college’s council and its teachers.
The thesis presented by the student Lawrence Raafat Fadel in the branch of human rights law dealt with the state as one of the persons of public international law, which must be fully sovereign and consists of three basic pillars: the people, the region, and the political authority. A change that affects this region, be it concession, annexation, separation or union, will generate effects The state follows, and this means the succession of states, which means that the sovereignty of the successor states comes under the sovereignty of the predecessor states in their responsibility for international relations. Therefore, the state has rights and has international obligations under international law, and in the event that it violates its obligations, it entails international responsibility.
The thesis aims to show that the responsibility of the state is established if it violates its obligations, and this is what the jurists dealt with in three theories: the theory of error and the theory of the internationally illegal act, up to the stage of scientific and technological development and the emergence of the risk theory.
The discussion committee was chaired by Prof. Dr. Khalaf Ramadan Muhammad and the membership of the assistant professor, Dr. Wissam Nemat Ibrahim Al-Saadi, the teacher Dr. Saadoun Hossam Aref, and the membership and supervision of Prof. Muhammad Younis Yahya.