- Code
- LAW 403
- Name
- History and Theory of International Law
- Semester
- 1
- Lecture hours
- 3.00
- Seminar hours
- 1.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 3.50
- ECTS
- 6.00
- Description
-
This course aims to examine some of the fundamental issues underlying international law, against the background of its history. Attention will be paid both to classical analyses of the nature of international law (positivism and its alternatives) and to some of the recent critiques of international law from perspectives such as critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, international relations theory, etc. Particular topics to be examined will be chosen having regard to the interests of students taking the course.
- Objectives
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- The relevance of theory and history- the essence and origins of international law
- 2
- Early modern scholarship on international law
- 3
- Natural law and the law of nations
- 4
- The transformation of international law in the 19-th century
- 5
- International human rights law theory
- 6
- The philosophy of international criminal law
- 7
- International law and EU law: between asymmetric constitutionalisation and fragmentation
- 8
- Midterm exam
- 9
- International law, international politics and ideology
- 10
- Periodization and international law
- 11
- The Legal Conscience of the Civilised World
- 12
- The Move to Abstraction: Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law
- 13
- Rule of Law and the Rule of Lawyers: Lauterpacht's and the Victorian Tradition
- 14
- An Alternative Meaning of Liberalism: Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau and the Critique of Universal Moralism
- 15
- Current Civilising Projects: The Revival of Kantian Theories of International Law
- 16
- Final exam
- 1
- Understand the sources, principles, procedures and institutions of international law
- 2
- Demonstrate your ability to think critically, to justify your ideas in a reasoned manner, and to evaluate legal theories, in part through a research essay
- 3
- Recall the origins and evolution of those principles, procedures and institutions
- 4
- Communicate (orally and in writing) in an effective and scholarly way
- 5
- Explain the meaning of the legal concepts, doctrines and principles you studied
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 30% 30%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Term projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 1 10% 10%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 40%
- Final exam percent
- 60%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 4 64
- Off class study hours
- 14 6 84
- Duties
- 0 0 0
- Midterms
- 1 1 1
- Final exam
- 1 2 2
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 151
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 6.04
- ECTS
- 6.00