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International Law(2015-2016)

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Suggested for student purchase (1 items)

International law: a critical introduction - Wade Mansell, Karen Openshaw, 2013Book | Core (Must Read)

Core text (1 items)It is strongly recommended that you buy a cases and materials book – readings forseminars may suggest reading from this text as well as the main textbook.

International law: text, cases, and materials - Ademola Abass, 2014Book | Core (Must Read)

Documents Book (1 items)You will also need to buy the statute book that you will use throughout the year inseminars and then take into the exam. This is:

Blackstone's international law documents - Malcolm D. Evans, c2011Book | Suggested for student purchase | NOTE: For exam purposes, there should be no

writing on this book; you may use tabs, but you must not write on those tabs.The library does not purchase copies of this book.

Recommended texts (5 items)

Handbook of international law - Aust, Anthony, 2010Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Brownlie's principles of public international law - Crawford, James, Brownlie, Ian, 2012Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Textbook on international law - Dixon, Martin, 2013Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International law - Klabbers, Jan, 2013Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International law - Klabbers, Jan, 2013Book | Recommended (Should Read)

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Background (8 items)There are a few key general books available in the library for you to consult if yourtextbook is not very clear on a particular topic or if there is something you wish to knowmore about for a seminar or your assessment:

International law - Antonio Cassese, 2005 [i.e. 2004Book | Background (Could Read)

Droit international public - Dinh Nguyen Quoc, Patrick Daillier, Alain Pellet, MathiasForteau, DanielMuller, 2009

Book | Background (Could Read)

Problems and process: international law and how we use it - Rosalyn Higgins, 1994Book | Background (Could Read)

Public international law - Alina Kaczorowska, 2010Book | Background (Could Read)

Public international law - Alina Kaczorowska, 2010Book | Background (Could Read)

From apology to utopia: the structure of international legal argument - Martti Koskenniemi,2005

Book | Background (Could Read)

From apology to utopia: the structure of international legal argument - Martti Koskenniemi,2005

Book | Background (Could Read)

In addition, there are numerous excellent monographs on specialized topics ininternational law that are available in the library. Many are mentioned in the 'further'readings in the Seminar Guide (available on Moodle).

Research Guidence (14 items)

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law - homeWebsite

EISIL - Electronic Information System for International Law of the American Society ofInternational Law

Webpage

You may also wish to consult databases such as Hein Online, Lexis-Nexis, Justis (whichincludes the International Law Reports), Westlaw, the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals,

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and the Index to Legal Periodicals to look for cases and academic articles relevant to yourresearch question. These are all accessible online from the Electronic law library website.

Electronic law library - Lawlinks - University of KentWebpage

The library also has a very useful 'international law resources' list of links at http://www.kent.ac.uk/library/subjects/lawlinks/signposts/international.html

Another database which may be helpful is the Hague Academy Collected Courses Online.The Recueil des cours, as they are commonly known, are an invaluable collection of allsummer courses given at the Hague Academy of International Law since 1923.

The best source of information about multilateral and bilateral treaties is the UN treatiescollection, which is available for free at http://treaties.un.org/. The website is not theeasiest to use, but the key to it is that:  Key information about multilateral treaties, thesignatories and parties thereto, and the reservations filed by states parties is to be foundin the MTDSG database ('Status of treaties'). The (enormous) collection of the (hundreds)of bilateral and multilateral treaties registered since 1945 is available in the UnitedNations Treaty Series (UNTS) collection, which is also available online.You will notice thatmany times treaties are officially referred to by reference to their location in this collection(e.g., 'International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New York, 16 December 1966,999 UNTS 171' means that the text of the ICCPR may be found at volume 999, page 171 ofthe UNTS collection).

The most important law reports in international law include:

International Court of Justice ReportsWebpage

International Law ReportsWebsite

International Legal Materials via HeinOnlineWebpage

Cases of the Permanent Court of ArbitrationWebpage

UN Reports of International Arbitral Awards - Recueil des sentences arbitralesWebpage

European Court of Human Rights Portal SearchWebpage

Journals (73 items)

American journal of international lawJournal

Arizona journal of international and comparative law

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Journal

Asian Journal of International LawJournal

Australian yearbook of international law Journal

Berkeley journal of international lawJournal

British year book of international law Journal

Cambridge law journalJournal

Cambridge yearbook of European legal studies Journal

Cardozo journal of international and comparative law Journal

Case Western Reserve journal of international law Journal

Chicago journal of international law Journal

Columbia human rights law review Journal

Columbia journal of transnational lawJournal

Connecticut journal of international law Journal

Cornell international law journal Journal

Duke journal of comparative & international law Journal

Emory international law review Journal

European human rights law reviewJournal

European Journal of International LawJournal

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Finnish Yearbook of International LawJournal

German Yearbook of International LawJournal

Harvard human rights journal Journal

Harvard International Law JournalJournal

Harvard Law ReviewJournal

Houston journal of international law Journal

Human rights law reviewJournal

Human rights quarterly Journal

ILSA journal of international & comparative law Journal

Indiana international & comparative law review Journal

International and comparative law quarterly Journal

International and comparative law reviewJournal

International journal of human rights Journal

International journal of refugee law Journal

International Law ReviewJournal

International peacekeeping Journal

International political science review Journal

International review of the Red Cross

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Journal

Journal of conflict & security law Journal

Journal of international criminal justice Journal

Journal of international legal studies Journal

Journal of refugee studies Journal

Journal of transnational law & policy Journal

Leiden journal of international law Journal

Legal StudiesJournal

Max Planck yearbook of United Nations law Journal

Melbourne journal of international law Journal

Michigan journal of international law Journal

Military law review Journal

Minnesota journal of international law Journal

Modern law review Journal

Netherlands international law review Journal

Netherlands quarterly of human rights Journal

Netherlands yearbook of international law Journal

New York University journal of international law & politics Journal

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New York University law review Journal

Nordic journal of international law Journal

Oxford journal of legal studies Journal

Pace international law review Journal

Recueil des cours:Academie de Droit International

Journal

Refugee survey quarterly Journal

Revue générale de droit international publicJournal

San Diego justice journal Journal

South African Yearbook of International LawJournal

Stanford journal of international law Journal

Texas international law journal Journal

Thomas Jefferson Law ReviewJournal

Vanderbilt journal of transnational law Journal

Virginia journal of international law Journal

Yale human rights & development law journal Journal

Yale journal of international law Journal

Yale Law Journal

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Journal

Wisconsin international law journal Journal

Zeitschrift fur auslandisches offentliches recht und volkerrechtJournal

Websites and Blogs (3 items)

The website of the United Nations is a goldmine of information, including: The database ofall UN documents, including General Assembly and Security Council resolutions; this isavailable for free at http://documents.un.org/. Information about the work of the International Law Commission.

You are generally expected to keep abreast with world news: international law is rooted indaily state practice. News will also provide useful examples for your essays and examquestions, and you may find that the right reference to the right contemporary facts maymake the difference between an excellent and a good essay. It is not our place to suggestwhich national or international newspaper you should try to read every day, let alonewhich TV news channel you should watch: so long as you are reading or listening tosome'quality' international news daily (either from a 'broadsheet', as they used to becalled, or from some other source), the choice is entirely yours. International lawyers areoften fond of the International Herald Tribuneand Le Monde Diplomatique (the Englishedition thereof is available in the library; this should not be confused with the French dailynewspaper Le Monde). The BBC World Service is also excellent.

Finally, there are some legal blogs which provide almost-instant coverage of 'thingshappening' – though beware that the analyses and opinions therein range from thewell-informed to the most implausible distortions of reality; also, they sometimes have aUS focus which might be not entirely useful to you. Nonetheless, if you are really keen onthe subject you might even end up contributing to the heated discussions therein: Opiniojuris, http://opiniojuris.org Ejil:Talk!, http://www.ejiltalk.org/ IntLawGrrls, http://intlawgrrls.blogspot.com

…But please remember that it is not acceptable to quote from blog posts (or generic,unreliable internet sites) as sources foryour essays or dissertations.

Atlas (1 items)

Cambridge world atlas - Herb, Guntram Henrik, Kaplan, David H., Monmonier, Mark S.,2009

Book | Suggested for student purchase

Autum Term. Foundations of Public International LawSEMINAR-BY-SEMINAR INSTRUCTIONS AND READING LISTS

Week 1.No Seminar this week

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Week 2: Histories of International Law (5 items)

Required reading (all on Moodle) (1 items)

-James Crawford, Brownlie's Principles of Public International Law (Oxford University Press2012), 3-6.

-Peter Malanczuk, Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law (Routledge2002),11-15.

-Antony Anghie, Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law (CambridgeUniversity Press 2007), 13-17.

 

Also read the Introduction and Chapter 1 (up to p. 16) of Mansell and Openshaw, International Law, A Critical Introduction.

Recommended reading: (1 items)

The Oxford handbook of the history of international law - Bardo Fassbender, Anne Peters,Simone Peter, Daniel H�ogger, 2012

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | A History of International Law Historie

Further reading: (3 items)

The Oxford handbook of the history of international law - Bardo Fassbender, Anne Peters,Simone Peter, Daniel H�ogger, 2012

Book | Background (Could Read) | Colonialism and Domination

International Law and the Spirit of Anti-Colonialism: Europe Fights Back - A. Carty, 2011Article | Background (Could Read)

International Law and the Developing World: A Millennial Analysis - C.G. Weeramantry,2000

Article | Background (Could Read)

Week 3: The Politics of International Law (3 items)

Required reading (2 items)

International law: a critical introduction - Wade Mansell, Karen Openshaw, 2013Book | Core (Must Read) | Introduction and Chapter 1 (up to p. 16

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The politics of international law - Martti Koskenniemi, Dawsonera, 2011Book | Core (Must Read) | available as Chapter 10 in Section IV of an e-book available

through Templeman Library. Do read this text in advance and take notes, as you will needthem for the class discussion.

Recommended reading (on Moodle): (1 items)

-          Gerry Simpson, Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in theInternational Legal Order (Cambridge, 2004), Chapter 1

-          Anne-Marie Slaughter, 'International Relations, Principle Theories', Max PlanckEncyclopedia of Public International Law (2011)

Week 4: Sources I (6 items)

Required reading (2 items)

The Cambridge companion to international law - James Crawford, Martti Koskenniemi,Surabhi Ranganathan, 2012

Book | Core (Must Read) | Law-Making and Sources’

International law: a critical introduction - Wade Mansell, Karen Openshaw, 2013Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 1 Section VII (pp. 17-27)

Recommended reading (available through Templeman Library): (4 items)

International law: text, cases, and materials - Ademola Abass, 2014Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 2: ‘Sources of International Law’

-International Law Association (2000), 'Statement of Principles Applicable to the Formationof General Customary International Law' (available on Moodle)

International law - Jan Klabbers, 2013Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 2: ‘The Making of International Law’

Akehurst's modern introduction to international law - Peter Malanczuk, Michael BartonAkehurst, MyiLibrary, 1997

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 3: ‘Sources of International Law’

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WEEK 5: Reading week – No lecture or seminar this week

Week 6: Sources II: Treaties (5 items)

Required reading (2 items)

- Statements of your chosen state/entity, as well as general information on the ATTavailable here: http://www.un.org/disarmament/ATT/

International law - Jan Klabbers, 2013Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 3: ‘The Law of Treaties’ (available online through

Templeman Library)

Recommended reading: (3 items)

-Documents from the lead-up to the passage of the ATT:

http://www.un.org/disarmament/ATT/documents/

-Sara Kendall and Clare da Silva, 'Beyond the ICC: State Responsibility for the Arms Tradein Africa', in Clarke, Knotternus and de Volder, The ICC and Africa: An Introduction(Cambridge, forthcoming 2016)

ILC, 'Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties' (2011)

Week 7: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC LAW(6 items)

Required Reading (4 items)

International law - Jan Klabbers, 2013Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 16 (available online through Templeman Library)

International law: a critical introduction - Wade Mansell, Karen Openshaw, 2013

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Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 7, Section III D (p 177-179)

You must then consider the following two cases, which are essential for the seminar:

Lord Advocate's Reference, No 1 of 2000, (2001) SLT 507, (2001) JC 143 (High Court ofJusticiary, Scotland), aka the Trident case. Legality of the Threat or Use of NuclearWeapons (Advisory Opinion), ICJ Rep. 1996, 226 (8 July 1996), available at the court'swebsite. You can start by reading the summary you find here.

Recommended reading (2 items)

- Booth, K and Barnaby, F (eds), 'The Future of Britain's Nuclear Weapons: Experts Reframethe Debate' (Oxford Research Group Current Decisions Report, March 2006), Debate 3 -available here

International Law and Nuclear Weapons in Scottish Courts - Neff, Stephen C., 2002Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Week 8: PRESENTATIONS – The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the IsraeliSecurity Wall (6 items)

Required Reading (3 items)

International law: a critical introduction - Wade Mansell, Karen Openshaw, 2013Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 7 (p 159-181) and Chapter 9 (p 237-250)

- Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory(Advisory Opinion),ICJ Rep 2004, 136 -  available here (summary is here; consider also theseparate opinions).

- Watts, A., Israeli Wall Advisory Opinion (Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall

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in the Occupied Palestinian Territory), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law,online

Recommended reading (3 items)

International law: text, cases, and materials - Ademola Abass, 2014Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 15, Sections 15.1-15.3, 15.6,

15.11-15.12

- Rosenne, S., International Court of Justice (ICJ), Max Planck Encyclopedia of PublicInternational Law, online

Agora: ICJ Advisory Opinion on Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:Introduction - 2005

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Week 9: Presentations - The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Kosovo (7 items)

Required reading (3 items)

International law: a critical introduction - Wade Mansell, Karen Openshaw, 2013Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 3 (background reading for both this and the next

seminar)

- Accordance with international law of the unilateral declaration of independence inrespect of Kosovo (Advisory Opinion), ICJ Rep 403 (2010), available here (and summaryavailable here), including the *Dissenting opinions of Judge Koroma and of Judge Bennouna.

- Wilde, R., Kosovo (Advisory Opinion), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, online

Recommended reading (4 items)

International law: text, cases, and materials - Ademola Abass, 2014Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 4

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International law - Jan Klabbers, 2013Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 4 (available online through Templeman

Library)

The creation of states in international law - James Crawford, 2006Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 2 – The Criteria for Statehood: Statehood

as Effectiveness

The Kosovo Advisory Opinion and UNSCR 1244 (1999): A Declaration of ‘Independencefrom International Law’? - MARCELO G. KOHEN, KATHERINE DEL MAR, 2011-3

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Week 10: Presentations – The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara(6 items)

Required reading (3 items)

-Summary of advisory opinion available here:

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?sum=323&p1=3&p2=4&case=61&p3=5

-Clemens Feinaugle, 'Western Sahara' (Advisory Opinion), Max Planck Encyclopedia forPublic International Law

Stealing of the Sahara, The - Franck, Thomas M., 1976Article | Core (Must Read)

Recommended reading (3 items)

-Relevant sections of the Advisory Opinion that you should read in more detail in responseto the questions above (the Opinion is available on Moodle)

-Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, entry for 'Self-determination',

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available here:

http://opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law:epil/9780199231690/law-9780199231690-e873

The status of Western Sahara as occupied territory under international humanitarian lawand the exploitation of natural resources - Ben Saul, 2015-09-02

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Week 11: Presentations – State Responsibility in the Bosnian Genocidecase (9 items)

Required reading (4 items)

International law: a critical introduction - Wade Mansell, Karen Openshaw, 2013Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 4, Section III

- International Law Commission, Articles on the Responsibility of States for InternationallyWrongful Acts, annexed to United Nations General Assembly resolution 56/83, UN Doc.A/RES/56/83, 12 December 2001 in your copy of Blackstone's International Law Documents, 524.

- Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime ofGenocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro) (Judgment), ICJ Rep. 2007,43, available here

PLEASE NOTE: You are not expected to read the whole 200-page long judgment. Start byreading the summary and then focus only on the following paragraphs of the full judgment:[142-149], [231-241], [278-297], [377-415], [425-450]

Recommended reading (5 items)

- International Law Commission, Commentaries to the Articles on State Responsibility, Yearbook of the International Law Commission 2001, vol. II, pp. 31‑114, available here

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The Bosnia Genocide Case - C. F. AMERASINGHE, 2008-6Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Divergent Approaches to Determining Responsibility for Genocide: The Darfur Commissionof Inquiry and the ICJ's Judgment in the Genocide Case - A. B. Loewenstein, S. A. Kostas,2007-09-01

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

State Responsibility for Genocide - M. Milanovic, 2006-06-01Article | Recommended (Should Read)

State Responsibility for Genocide: A Follow-Up - M. Milanovic, 2007-09-01Article | Recommended (Should Read)

WEEK 12Writing week – No lecture or seminar this week

SPRING TERM:Rights and Obligations of States and Individuals in Times of War and Peace

WEEK 13 The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of theConstruction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (3 items)

Required reading (1 items)

The entirety of the lengthy submission from Israel is posted on the course Moodle site.You must read the short excerpts noted above (the cover letter and the OpeningStatement) that form the first five pages of the document. -­

‐ The entirety of the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the OccupiedPalestinian Territory (Advisory Opinion), ICJ Rep. 2004, 136 is posted on Moodle. You mustread paras. 138 – 142 (pp.194-­‐195).

Recommended reading (2 items)

Light Treatment of a Complex Problem: The Law of Self-Defence in the Wall Case - C. J.Tams, 2005-11-01

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Further reading on the Wall advisory opinion is noted under Week 8.

Week 14: Legality of War in Iraq (12 items)

Background reading (2 items)

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International law: a critical introduction - Wade Mansell, Karen Openshaw, 2013Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter

8excerpt(pp.182–203)

 Skim UNSC debate, S/2003/4701, US position (pp. 1-­‐17) (on Moodle) -

­UN Security Council resolution 1441, which you will find here.

Further reading: (10 items)

Iraq and the use of force in international law - M. Weller, Lauterpacht Research Centre forInternational Law, 2010

Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter 5.Print and e-book available

Terrorism and the Legality of Pre-Emptive Force - Michael Bothe, 2003Article | Background (Could Read)

Agora: Future Implications of the Iraq Conflict - L F Damrosh, B H Oxman, 2003Article | Background (Could Read) | especially the articles by Taft (pp. 557-563) and

Franck (607-620).

Agora (Continued): Future Implications of the Iraq Conflict - L F Damrosh, B H Oxman, 2003Article | Background (Could Read)

From Unity to Polarisation: International Law and the Use of Force against Iraq - C Gray,2002

Article | Background (Could Read)

The Use and Abuse of the ICJ: Cases Concerning the Use of Force after Nicaragua - C Gray,2003

Article | Background (Could Read)

International Law and the Pre-emptive Use of Force: Afghanistan, Al Qaida, and Iraq -Christopher Greenwood, 2003

Article | Background (Could Read)

Iraq, Invasion of (2003) - Wolff Heintschel von HeineggDocument | Background (Could Read)

The Iraq Crisis: What Now? - V Lowe, 2003Article | Background (Could Read)

The Past and Future of the Claim of Preemptive Self-Defense - W M Reisman, A Armstrong,2006

Article | Background (Could Read)

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Week 15 The United Nations and the Use of Force (9 items)

Recommended readings (3 items)

Start with:

The United Nations department of peacekeeping website.  In particular, have a look at:

The 'Current Operations' section,

The 'Factsheet',

Try also to skim-read the 'United Nations Peace Operations 2012: Year in Review'

International law and the use of force - Gray, Christine D., 2008Book | Core (Must Read) | available

onMoodle.Thechapterisuploadedinitsentirety;youareonlyrequiredtoreadpp.294-­‐306(‘ReformofUNPeacekeeping’)andp.326(‘Conclusion’).

And one of these two:

 United Nations, 'United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Principles and Guidelines',(Capstone Doctrine), 18 January 2008.

United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations and Department of Field Support,

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'A New Partnership Agenda: Charting a New Horizon for UN Peacekeeping', July 2009

Further Reading (6 items)

Is the authorization authorized? Powers and practice of the UN Security Council toauthorize the use of force by “coalitions of the able and willing - N Blokker, 2000

Article | Background (Could Read)

Peacekeeping after the Brahimi Report: Is There a Crisis of Credibility for the UN? - C Gray,2001

Article | Background (Could Read)

NYU Center on International Cooperation, 'Building on Brahimi: Peacekeeping in an Era ofStrategic Uncertainty', April 2009.

The Legal Basis of the United Nations Peace-keeping Operations - A Orakhelashvili, 2003Article | Background (Could Read)

‘A Comprehensive Strategy to Eliminate Future Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UnitedNations Peacekeeping Operations’

Webpage | Background (Could Read) | please find document in list on page

The UN Charter and Peacekeeping Forces: Constitutional Issues - Nigel White, 1996Article | Background (Could Read)

Week 16 Humanitarian Intervention and Responsibility to protect (8items)

Required Reading (3 items)

International law: a critical introduction - Wade Mansell, Karen Openshaw, 2013Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter

8excerpt,‘FromHumanitarianInterventiontotheResponsibilitytoProtect’(pp.203-­‐214)

International law: text, cases, and materials - Ademola Abass, 2014Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter

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11excerptson‘HumanitarianIntervention’and‘ResponsibilitytoProtect’(pp.404–410)

‘The Lady Doth Protest Too Much’ Kosovo, and the Turn to Ethics in International Law -Martti Koskenniemi, 2008-06-28

Article | Core (Must Read) | onMoodle.

Further Reading (5 items)

An equitable framework for humanitarian intervention - Burke,Ciaran, [2013]

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapters 1 & 5

An equitable framework for humanitarian intervention - Burke,Ciaran, 2013

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapters 1 & 5

Illegal Vetoes in the Security Council–How Russia and China Breached Their Duty Under JusCogens to Prevent War Crimes in Syria

Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Israel in the world: legitimacy and exceptionalism - Adler, Emanuel, c2013Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 6.

Israel in the world: legitimacy and exceptionalism - 2013Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 6.

WEEK 17 – READING/ WRITING WEEK

WEEK 18 SEMINAR IHL and New Technologies: Drones (3 items)

Required reading: (2 items)

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International law: a critical introduction - Wade Mansell, Karen Openshaw, 2013Book | Core (Must Read) | cerpt

fromCh.8ontheUseofForceinInternationalLaw(pp.216–221onUnmannedAerialVehicles:‘Drones’)

Jelena Pejic, 'Extraterritorial targeting by means of armed drones: Some legal implications'(on Moodle; focus on the first ten pages as well as on the 'Closing Remarks' (pp. 39-­‐40)

Further reading: (1 items)

Philip Alston,'Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitraryexecutions', UN General Assembly Document (2010), available on Moodle

Amy Zegart, 'The Coming Revolution of Drone Warfare', The Wall Street Journal, availableon Moodle

Stephanie Carvin, 'Getting Drones Wrong', 19 International Journal of Human Rights(2015), available on Moodle

Chris Cole, 'Think drone technology is not really the problem? Think again', ondronewars.net, available here:http://dronewars.net/2015/03/31/think-­‐drones-­‐technology-­‐is-­‐not-­‐really-­‐the-­‐problem-­‐think-­‐again/

WEEK 19 & 20 MOOT – JUS IN BELLO (7 items)

Required reading: (3 items)Pleasemakesureyou

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readallofthefollowing(forbothweeks):

International law: text, cases, and materials - Ademola Abass, 2014Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter

12(InternationalHumanitarianLaw),withspecialattentiontoSection12.6-­‐12.8onthedistinctionbetweenciviliansandcombatants(pp.424–434)

International law: text, cases, and materials - Ademola Abass, 2014Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter

16(InternationalCriminalLaw),withspecialattentiontoSection16.6ontheInternationalCriminalCourt(pp.588

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–594)andSection16.7.4onWarCrimes(pp.617–622)

Relevant articles of the Geneva Conventions, available on the Red Cross website:https://www.icrc.org/en/war-­‐and-­‐law/treaties-­‐customary-­‐law/geneva-­‐conventions

Further reading: (4 items)

Lawfare and Warfare - D KennedyChapter | Background (Could Read)

An introduction to international criminal law and procedure - Robert Cryer,Hakan Friman, Darryl Robinson, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, 2014

Book | Background (Could Read) | ‘WarCrimes’ AvailableonMoodle

Public international law - Kaczorowska, Alina, 2010Book | Background (Could Read) | ch 16

Military Lawyers on the Battlefield: An Empirical Account of International Law Compliance -Laura A Dickinson, 2010

Article | Background (Could Read)

Week 21: The International Criminal Court (13 items)

Required reading: (3 items)

International law: a critical introduction - Wade Mansell, Karen Openshaw, 2013Book | Core (Must Read) | excerpt

fromChapter6ontheICC

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(pp.148-­‐157)

International law: text, cases, and materials - Ademola Abass, 2014Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter

16.8onImmunity(pp.622-­‐623)

Doing Justice to the Political: The International Criminal Court in Uganda and Sudan - S. M.H. Nouwen, W. G. Werner, 2010-11-01

Article | Core (Must Read)

You will then need to read the following documents relating toAl-Bashir’s indictment, which you will find in the Court’s website: (3items)

ICC-02/05-01/09, Case The Prosecutor v. Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir, Second Warrantof Arrest, 12 July 2010, and First Warrant of Arrest, 4 March 2009. ICC-02/05-01/09, CaseThe Prosecutor v. Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir, Appeals Chamber, Judgment on theappeal of the Prosecutor against the "Decision on the Prosecution's Application for aWarrant of Arrest against Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir", 3 February 2010. The FirstDecision of the Pre-Trial Chamber I, against which this appeal was lodged by theProsecution. ICC-02/05-01/09, Case The Prosecutor v. Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir,Pre-Trial Chamber I, *Second Decision on the Prosecution's Application for a Warrant ofArrest, 12 July 2010.

The following will help you focus on the key issues arising from the documents above:

The ICC Appeals Chamber Decision on the Warrant of Arrest in Prosecutor v. Bashir - SMohamed

Document | Core (Must Read) | Essential Text

Further reading: (7 items)

The Legal Nature of the Security Council Referrals to the ICC and its impact on Al-Bashir’simmunity - D Akande, 2009

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The Prosecutor’s Strategy in Seeking the Arrest of Sudanese President Al Bashir onCharges of Genocide - Andrew T. Cayley, 2008

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

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The Definitions of International Crimes in the Al Bashir Arrest Warrant Decision - RobertCryer, 2009

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Does President Al Bashir Enjoy Immunity from Arrest? - P Gaeta, 2009Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The request for an arrest warrant in Al Bashir: idealistic posturing or calculated plan? - CGosnell, 2008

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The Crime of Genocide and Contextual Elements: A Comment on the ICC Pre-TrialChamber's Decision in the Al Bashir Case - C. Kress, 2009-05-01

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Peace and Justice, or Neither?: The Repercussions of the al-Bashir Casefor InternationalCriminal Justice in Africa and Beyond - L Oette, 2010

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Week 22 International Human Rights – Are human rights universal? (8items)

Required reading: (2 items)

International law: a critical introduction - Wade Mansell, Karen Openshaw, 2013Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter

6(HumanRightsinInternationalLaw,pp.125–146)

The boundaries of international law: a feminist analysis - Charlesworth, Hilary, Chinkin,Christine, 2000

Book | Core (Must Read) | chapter 7

Further reading: (6 items)

The Personal is Political, or Why Women’s’ human rights are indeed human rights: AnAfrican perspective on international feminism - J Oloka-Onyango, S Tamale, 1995

Article | Background (Could Read)

International Norms, and Domestic Violence: Asian Perspectives - Amirthalingam, 2005Article | Background (Could Read)

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Violence against women: state responsibilities in international human rights law to addressharmful masculinities - Anderson, 2008

Article | Background (Could Read)

Human Rights: A Feminist Perspective - G Binion, 1995Article | Background (Could Read)

The Gender of Jus Cogens - Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin, 1993-02Article | Background (Could Read)

Confronting the ‘Sacred and Unchangeable’: The Obligation to Modify Cultural Patternsunder the Women’s Discrimination Treaty by Elizabeth Sepper :: SSRN

Document | Background (Could Read)

Week 23 Revision exercises (1 items)

There are obviously no additional readings. Come prepared to discuss the most importantevents in international law in the past 12 months.

Week 24 – No seminars

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