On 13th February 2014, after having been introduced to the concept of State sovereignty and the origins of the concept of self-determination and its political interpretation during the 20th century, students engaged in a fruitful discussion based on the three main historical legal documents: the Opinions of the Badinter Arbitration Commission on Yugoslavia, the Reference regarding the Secession of Quebec of the Constitutional Court of Canada and the decision of the International Court of Justice on the declaration of independence of Kosovo.