The course aims to provide an insight into the public international legal framework and its relation to international politics, with particular emphasis on what distinguishes the legal thinking from the social sciences. Among other things, the course addresses the public international law worldview and public international law doctrines, the fundamentals of public international law, three specific areas (violence, human rights, global assets) as well as global rights beyond public international law (transnational rights, “disaggregation of sovereignty,” legal pluralism).