• E4J University Module Series: Firearms

• Module 5: International Legal Framework on Firearms

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • International public law and transnational law
  • International instruments with global outreach
  • Commonalities, differences and complementarity between the global instruments and tools for their implementation
  • Tools to support the implementation of the global instruments on firearms and conventional weapons
  • Other United Nations processes
  • The Sustainable Development Goals
  • Multilateral and regional instruments
  • Summary
  • References

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

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• First published in July 2019
  

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   This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Advanced reading

 

The following readings are recommended for students interested in exploring the topics of this Module in more detail, and for lecturers teaching the Module.

• Crawford, James (2012). Brownlie's Principles of Public International Law Oxford: OUP
• Da Silva, Clare and Brian Wood (2015). Weapons and International Law: The Arms Trade Treaty. Larcier.
• Goldring, Natalie (2016). The Programme of Action, the Arms Trade Treaty, and the UN Register of Conventional Arms: Seeking Synergy and Overcoming Challenges . New York: IANSA.
• Small Arms Survey (2018). Arms Trade Treaty: Model Law . Geneva: Small Arms Survey.
• UNODC (2013). The Ratification Kit - Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.
• UNODC (2012). Model Legislative Provisions against Organized Crime .
• UNODC (204). Legislative Guide for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto .
• UNODC (2011). Model law against the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition
• UNODC (2011). Technical Guide to implement the Protocol Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition
• UNODC (2016). The Firearms Protocol and the Arms Trade Treaty: Divergence or complementarity?
• UNODC (2004). Legislative Guide for the Implementation of the Protocol Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, Supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime .
• Yihdego, Zeray (2007). The Arms Trade and International Law. London: Hart Publishing, Bloomsbury.

 

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