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Optional Law subject.
Pre/Corequisite: Students should either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in International Law.
Contact: 2 hours per week
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should: acquire a specialised knowledge of particular areas of international law of current significance; and develop the capacity to assess the international legal significance of current events; analyse particular issues of current importance from an international legal perspective; articulate the theoretical bases of particular views and positions in international legal discourse; and critically assess the significance of international law in the resolution of current disputes.
Content:
This course involves intensive study of areas of international law possessing current significance in the international community which tend not to be covered in the regular international law course. It does so from a thematic and theoretical perspective. The themes considered throughout the course are, briefly, the future of sovereignty and statehood, the limits of intervention and the use and abuse of international legal argument. The first half of the course (7 weeks) is devoted to the major theoretical questions underlying international law discourse. These include the meaning of the new world order realist, liberal, feminist and critical approaches to the nature of the international legal order and the relationship between international law and international relations methodology and practice. In the second half of the course we apply these perspectives to case studies (Yugoslavia and interventions, US foreign policy and international legal argument) and to new developments in international law (the International Criminal Court, legal regulation of nuclear proliferation and the new international information order).
Assessment:
Either: Research Assignment 4,000 words (100 per cent) (with Instructor's consent) or Final Exam 3 hours (100 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Law (Volume 3 page 216)
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