Schedule Spring 2013

January

	Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
			1	2	3	4	5
	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
	27	28	29	30	31	1	2

February

	Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
	24	25	26	27	28	1	2

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March

	Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	10	S	P	R	I	N	G
	17	B	R	E	A	K	23
	24	25	26	27	28	29	30

April

	Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
	31	1	2	3	4	5	6
	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
	28	29	30

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May

	Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
				1	2	3	4
	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
	26	27	28	29	30	31

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General Directions

1. This course will use one book, available for purchase in the student bookstore:

• Dunoff, Ratner, and Wippman. 2010. International Law: Norms, Actors, Process: A Problem-Oriented Approach. Aspen Publishers. THIRD EDITION. The syllabus below refers to this as DRW. This is a newish edition and you MUST use it!
• The textbook also has a website with updates and links that may prove useful: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/drwcasebook/home

2. All other texts are available via hyperlink. Please note that many, if not all, are only available to students via login.

3. This is a reading-intensive course. All readings should be read in the order presented. That is also their order of priority.

4. All readings should be read prior to class.

5. Required readings are required. Recommended readings will not be directly referred to on exams but primarily are provided to (a) clarify issues/concepts/theories discussed in the required reading or class lecture; and (b) guide those of you who want to deepen your knowledge on a specific issue.

You will encounter legal terms as you do some of your readings. Occasionally, it may be helpful to consult a legal dictionary. Our library has online access to several. I would consider consulting either of the following:

• http://www.credoreference.com/book/acblaw
• http://www.credoreference.com/book/collinslaw

All class meetings are scheduled to take place in Wyllis 112.

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Part One: Introduction; theory

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Class 1

What is International Law and why do we care about it? What is this course all about and what do I have to do to get an A?

Course Activities: Introductions

Readings:

• DRW. Read pages 1 – 34. Part 1/Chapter 1: Tracing the Evolution of International Law Through Two Problems.

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Class 2

The Legalization of International Relations; Theories of international relations and international law

Course Activities:

Readings:

• Caron, David D. 2004. “Does International Law Matter?” Proceedings, 98th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law. 311-314.
• Abbott, Kenneth W., Robert O. Keohane, Andrew Moravcsik, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Duncan Snidal. 2000. “The Concept of Legalization.” International Organization. 54(3). 401 – 419.
• Hathaway, Oona A. and Harold Hongju Koh. 2005.  “II. Interest-Based Theories of State Behavior. A. Realism.” Foundations of International Law and Politics.” New York: Foundation Press.  Read pages 26 – 31; 39 – 42; 47-49. Recommended to read the rest.

Recommended:

• Finnemore, MJ, and S Toope. 2003. “Alternatives to” Legalization”: Richer Views of Law and Politics.” International Organization. 55(03). 743-758.
• Grieco, Joseph M. 1988. “Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of the Newest Liberal Institutionalism.” International Organization. 42(3). 485-507.
• Goldsmith, Jack L. and Eric A. Posner. 2005. Introduction and Chapter 1. The Limits of International Law. (Oxford University Press). 3 – 43.  Available online via Wesleyan University at: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/wesleyan/docDetail.action?docID=10103688

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Class 3

What are the sources of international law? Treaties and Hard Law.

Course Activities: Lecture

Readings:

• DRW. Read pages 35 – 73. Chapter 2: Making Law in a Decentralized System. Focus is on the Cyprus Conflict
• Abbott, Kenneth W., and Duncan Snidal. 2000. “Hard and Soft Law in International Governance.” International Organization 54 (3):421-456

Recommended:

• Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties [PDF]

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Class 4

Sources of International Law: Soft Law.

Course Activities: Lecture

Readings:

• DRW. Read pages 73 – 105. Chapter 2: Making Law in a Decentralized System.
• Jon Birger Skjærseth, Olav Schram Stokke and Jørgen Wettestad. “Soft Law, Hard Law, and Effective Implementation of International Environmental Norms.” Global Environmental Politics 6:3, August 2006

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Class 5

Compliance with International Law

Course Activities: Lecture

Readings:

• Guzman, Andrew. 2008. Chapter 2. “A General Theory of International Law” in How International Law Works: A Rational Choice Theory.” (Oxford University Press).
• Simmons, Beth A. 2000. “International Law and State Behavior: Commitment and Compliance in International Monetary Affairs.” American Political Science Review. 94(4). 819 – 835.

Recommended:

• Grieco, Joseph M., Christopher F. Gelpi, and T. Camber Warren. 2009. “When Preferences and Commitments Colide: The Effect of Relative Partisan Shifts on International Treaty Compliance.” International Organization. 63. 341 – 355.
• Simmons, Beth A. 1998. “Compliance with International Agreements.” Annual Review of Political Science. 1. 75 – 93.
• Downs, Geroge W., David M. Rocke, and Peter N. Barsoom. 1996. “Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation?” International Organization. 50 (3). 379 – 406.
• Chayes, Abram, and Antonia Handler Chayes. 1993. “On compliance.” International Organization. 47 (2). 175- 205.

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Part Two: Participants and Structures of Global Governance

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Class 6: Paper proposal due

Course Activities: Lecture

Readings:

• DRW. Read 107 – 131; Skim 131 – 159. “The formation process” from Chapter 3.
• Charnovtiz, Steve. 2006. “Taiwan’s WTO Membership and Its International Implications.” Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy. 1 (2). 410 – 432.

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Class 7

International Organizations and Non-State Actors

Course Activities: Lecture

Readings:

• DRW. 159 – 169; 171- 187. “International Organizations as Global Actors” from Chapter 3
• DRW. 189 – 222. from Chapter 4, “The Challenge of Non-State Actors”

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Class 8

International Law in the Domestic Arena

Course Activities: Lecture.

Readings:

• DRW. Skim 239 – 249 “The Monist-Dualist Debate”
• DRW. Read 249 – 261 “Making International Law: Is NAFTA Constitutional?”
• DRW. Read 269 – 288″Breaking International Law…”
• DRW. Read 261- 268 on Presidential powers
• DRW. Skim 298 – 324 “Opening and Closing the Courthouse Door…”

Recommended:

• DRW. 288-298 “Interpreting International Law…”

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Class 9

The Reach of Domestic Law…

Course Activities: Lecture

Readings:

• DRW. Read 325 – 356 [The extraterritorial reach of domestic law]
• DRW. 377-398 “Sovereign Immunity”

Recommended:

• DRW. Read 356-376 “Capturing Criminals…”

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Class 10

Course Activities: Catching Up

Readings: SAME AS PREVIOUS DAY

 

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Class 11

MIDTERM EXAM

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Part Three: Human Dignity

General Readings of Note (this list is provided for those of you who are interested in these issues; they are not assigned readings):

• Thomas Risse, Stephen Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink (eds.) 1999. The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Keck, ME, and K Sikkink. 1999. Transnational advocacy networks in international and regional politics. International Social Science Journal. 51(159). 89-101.
• Moravcsik, Andrew. 2000. “The Origins of Human Rights Regimes: Democratic Delegation in Postwar Europe.” International Organization. 54 (2). 217 – 252.
• Hafner-Burton, Emilie Marie. 2005. Forum Shopping for Human Rights: The Politics of Preferential Trade. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
• Hafner-Burton, Emilie M. 2008. “Sticks and Stones: Naming and Shaming the Human Rights Enforcement Problem.” International Organization. 62. 689 – 716.
• Simmons, Beth A. 2009.  Mobilizing for Human Rights. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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Class 12

Civil and Political Rights

Course Activities: Lecture.

Readings:

• DRW. 403 – 435. “Protecting Political and Civil Rights”
• Simmons, Beth A. 2009. Excerpt from “Introduction.” Mobilizing for Human Rights. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pages 12 – 17.
• Simmons, Beth A. 2009. “2. Civil Rights.” Mobilizing for Human Rights. New York: Cambridge University Press. Read all, but no need to concentrate on the method.

Recommended:

• Hathaway, Oona A.“Do Human Rights Treaties Make a Difference?” Yale Law Journal, Vol. 111 (2001-2002), pp. 1935-2042.
• Jalloh, Charles Chernor. 2010. “African Court on Human and People’s Rights – jurisdiction – individual human rights complaints procedure –forum prorogatum as a basis for jurisdiction — costs.” in “Interntional Decisions”, American Journal of International Law. 104:4, 620 ppf.

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Class 13

Women’s Rights

Course Activities: Lecture.

Readings:

• DRW. 463 – 487. “…Women’s Rights…”
• Simmons, Beth A. 2009. “6. Equality for Women: Education, Work, and Reproductive Rights.” Mobilizing for Human Rights. New York: Cambridge University Press. Read all, but no need to concentrate on the method.

Recommended:

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

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SPRING BREAK

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Class 14

Individual Accountability

Course Activities: Lecture.

Readings (in order of importance):

• DRW. 565 – 604. “Governmental Attacks on Civilian Populations” and “Abu Ghraib”
• ICC. “Public Summary of the “Judgment pursuant to Article 74 of the Statute”. (17 pages).
• Background Information on “The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo”: ICC Newsletter #10 – November 2006
• The ICC at a Glance

Recommended:

• ICC First Verdict: Lubanga guilty…
• ICC. “Judgment pursuant to Article 74 of the Statute.” This is MORE THAN 600 pages! Don’t print it all! Pages 587-592 have the conclusions.
  
• http://www.lubangatrial.org/
• ICCNow resources on the Lubanga Trial
• Transcripts from the Thomas Lubanga Dyilo trial.  There is definitely no need to read all of these (or any of them), but it can give you a feel for the process if you skim a couple of them.
• DRW. 932 – 996. [US and the War on Terror; treatment of detainees]
• DRW. 622 – 646. [Pinochet Case]
• Schiff, Benjamin N. 2008. Building the International Criminal Court. New York: Cambridge University Press.  Available at: http://lib.myilibrary.com/detail.asp?ID=138334
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

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Class 15

International Law & Genocide

Course Activities: Lecture/Discussion

Readings:

• DRW. Review 573 – 583 (crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity)
• DRW. Read 604 – 622 “Rwanda”
• Akande, Dapo et al. 2010. “Position Paper: An African expert study on the African Union concerns about Article 16 of the Rome Statute of the ICC.” Institute for Security Studies.

Recommended:

• Peskin, Victor. 2009. “The International Criminal Court, the Security Council, and the Politics of Impunity in Darfur.” Genocide Studies and Prevention. 4 (3). 304 – 328.

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Class 16

Catch Up: ICC, Genocide

ROUGH DRAFT DUE

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Part Four: Use of Force

General Readings of Note (this list is provided for those of you who are interested in these issues; they are not assigned readings):

• Christine Gray, International Law and the Use of Force (New York:  Oxford University Press, 2004).
• J.L. Holzgrefe and Robert O. Keohane, eds., Humanitarian Intervention:  Ethical, Legal and Political Dilemmas (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2003), esp. chapter by Byers and Chesterman.
• W. Michael Reisman, Assessing Claims to Revise the Laws of War, 97 AM. J. INT’L L. 82 (2003).
• Thomas M. Franck, What Happens Now? The United Nations After Iraq, 97 AM. J. INT’L L. 607 (2003).
• Jane E. Stromseth, Law and Force after Iraq: A Transitional Moment, 97 AM. J.. INT’L L. 628 (2003)

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Class 17

The Gulf Wars and Afghanistan

Course Activities: Lecture/Discussion

Readings:

• DRW. 825 – 866. [the evolution of the law; the Gulf wars]
• DRW. 938 – 949. [the US in Afghanistan]

Recommended:

• Yoo, John. 2003. “International Law and the War in Iraq.” The American Journal of International Law. 97 (3). 563 – 576.
• St. Thomas Aquinas. 1269 – 1272.  “Part II, Question 40. Of War.” The Summa Theologica.  Focus on the first section “Whether it is always sinful to wage war?”

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Class 18

More Humanitarian Law: Use of nuclear weapons; protection of non-combatants

Course Activities: Lecture/Discussion

Readings:

• DRW. 489 – 513. “Nuclear Weapons”
• DRW. Read 513 – 534; Skim 534 – 546.  “The Qana Incident”

Recommended:

• DRW. 546 – 564. “Occupying Foreign Territory: Israel’s Wall in the West Bank”

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Part Five: International Environmental Law

General Readings of Note (this list is provided for those of you who are interested in these issues; they are not assigned readings):

• Hunter, David,  James Salzman & Durwood Zaelke. International Environmental Law. Online resource.
• Speth, James Gustave and Peter M. Haas. 2006. Global Environmental Governance. Island Press.  The history chapters (3 and 4) might be particularly useful.
• Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée, and Ellen Hey, eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (New York:  Oxford University Press, 2007).
• Philippe Sands, Principles of International Environmental Law (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2003).
• Esty, Daniel C. and Maria H. Ivanova. 2002. Global Environmental Governance: Options & Opportunities. Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. See especially:
  • Whalley, John and Ben Zissimos. 2002. “Making Environmental Deals: The Economic Case for a World Environmental Organization.” Global Environmental Governance.
  • Esty, Daniel C. and Maria H. Ivanova. 2002. “Revitalizing Environmental Governance: A Function-Driven Approach.” Global Environmental Governance.

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Class 19

Global Environmental Governance; Transboundary Pollution and Environmental Harm

Course Activities: Lecture/discussion

Readings:

• Braithwaite, John and Peter Drahos. 2000. “Chapter 12. The Environment.” Global Business Regulation. New York: Cambridge University Press. The beginning bits are the most important. Will post better version soon.
  
• Bodansky, Daniel. 2009. “What is International Environmental Law?”

Recommended:

• Kastenberg, Rachel. 2005. “Closing the Liability Gap in the International Transboundary Water Pollution Regime, Using Domestic Law to Hold Polluters Accountable: A Case Study of Pakootas v. Teck Cominco Ltd.” Oregon Review of International Law, 7. 322 – 354.
• International Law Commission. 2001. “Draft Articles on Prevention of Transboundary Harm from Hazardous Activities with commentaries.
• Weiss, Edith Brown. 2002. “Invoking State Responsibility in the Twenty-First Century”. 96(4) American Journal of International Law 798- 816.

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Class 20

International Waters; the Law of the Sea

Course Activities: Lecture/discussion

Readings:

• DRW. 707 – 729.”Nile”
• DRW. 651-685. The Territorial Sea; Exploitation and Protection of Water and Fish

Recommended:

• Brunnee, Jutta, and Stephen J. Toope. 1997. “Environmental Security and Freshwater Resources: Ecosystem Regime Building.” The American Journal of International Law. 91 (1). 26 – 59.
• Posner, Eric A. and Alan O. Sykes. “Economic Foundations of the Law of the Sea.” American Journal of International Law. 104:4, 569 ppf.

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Class 21

Ozone; Begin Climate Change

Course Activities: Lecture/discussion.

Readings:

• DRW. 729 – 757. “Ozone”
• Caron, David. 2008. “Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and the Coming Uncertainty in Oceanic Boundaries: A Proposal to Avoid Conflict.” In Maritime Boundary Disputes, Settlement Processes, and the Law of the Sea, eds. Seoung-Yong Hong, and Jon M. Van Dyke. Brill.

Recommended:

• UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, 2009. Official website.

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Monday, April 22

FINAL DRAFT OF PAPERS DUE
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Class 22

Climate Change

Course Activities: Lecture/Discussion.

Readings:

• DRW. 757-774. “Climate Change”

Recommended:

• Crossen, Teall. 2004. “Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the Compliance Continuum.” Georgetown International Environmental Law Review. 16 (3). 473 – 500.
• Strauss, Andrew L. 2003. “The Legal Option: Suing the United States in International Forums for Global Warming Emissions.” The Environmental Law Reporter. 33 10185 – 10191.
• Burns, William C. G. 2006. “Potential Causes of Action for Climate Change Damages in International Fora: The Law of the Sea Convention.” Journal of Sustainable Development Law & Policy. 2(1). Pages 27-51.
• Andrew T. Guzman and Jody Freeman. “Sea Walls Are Not Enough: Climate Change and U.S. Interests” Columbia Law Review (2009).
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Part Six: Governing the Global Economy

General Readings of Note (this list is provided for those of you who are interested in these issues; they are not assigned readings):

• Braithwaite, John, and Peter Drahos. 2000. Global business regulation. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Andrew T. Guzman and Joost Pauwelyn. International Trade Law: Cases and Materials, Aspen Publishers. Aspen Publishing, 2009.
• Daniel W. Drezner, All Politics is Global:  Explaining International Regulatory Regimes (Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 2007).
• Kelly, Claire (2006). “Power, Linkage and Accommodation: The WTO As An International Actor And Its Influence On Other Actors And Regimes,” Berkeley Journal of International Law, Vol. 24, pp. 79-128.

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Class 23

Governing Global Trade (I)

Course Activities: Lecture/Discussion.

Readings:

• DRW. 775-805. Promoting International Trade and Resolving Trade Disputes; Balancing Trade and the Environment: Shrimp-Turtle
• Richard H. Steinberg, “In the Shadow of Law or Power?  Consensus-Based Bargaining and Outcomes in the GATT/WTO,” International Organization, Vol. 56 (2002), pp. 339-374.

Recommended:

• WTO. “Understanding the WTO: Settling Disputes.” Website.
• WTO. “Dispute Settlement Gateway.” Website.

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Class 24

Governing Global Trade (II)

Course Activities: Lecture/Discussion.

Readings:

• Guzman, Andrew, and Beth A. Simmons. 2005. “Power Plays and Capacity Restraints: The Selection of Defendants in World Trade Organization Disputes.” The Journal of Legal Studies. 34.
• Johnson, Renee and Charles E. Hanrahan. 2009. “The U.S. – EU Beef Hormone Dispute.” Congressional Research Service Report for Congress. May 5.

Recommended:

• WTO. EU-US Hormone Disputes. DS26., DS48, DS320.
• Wilson, Bruce. 2007. “Compliance by WTO Members with Adverse WTO Dispute Settlement Rulings: The Record to Date.” Journal of International Economic Law. 10 (2). 397 – 403.

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Class 25

African States in Global Governance

Course Activities: Lecture and Discussion.

Required:

• Nelson, Michael. 2013.
  • Chapter 2. “Viewing Governance from Below”
  • Chapter 6. (2009). “Defending Rights: Africa and Intellectual Property Governance.”
  • Optional: Chapter 3. “Coalitions”

Recommended:

• DRW. 996-1024. “The AIDS Pandemic”
• Mosoti, Victor. 2006. “Africa in the First Decade of WTO Dispute Settlement.” Journal of International Economic Law. 9(2). 427 – 453.

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Class 26

Conclusion and Summary

Course Activities: Final Lecture and Exam Review

Readings:

• “What good is international law?” a symposium with essays by Jed Rubenfeld, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Michael J. Glennon, Oona A. Hathaway, and Stacy D. McDeever, The Wilson Quarterly, Autmn 2003.
• Weiss, Thomas G. 2009. “What Happened to the Idea of World Government?” International Studies Quartlery. 53:2. 253-271.
• DRW. 984-996.

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end of classes

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15 May 2012. Wenesday. 2 – 5 pm

Location: Our Classroom

FINAL EXAM

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