Topics and representative readings:
1. What is international law?: introduction and theory
Glennon, Why the Security Council Failed
Koh, The Obama Administration and International Law
2. Where does it come from?: history and institutions
Cali, ch. 3 (Anghie, Basic principles of international law: a historical perspective)
3. Sources of IL: custom
The Paquete Habana
Cali, ch. 6 (Beckett, Customary international law)
4. Sources of IL: treaties and jus cogens
Cali, ch. 5 (Voyiakis, International treaties)
Vienna Convention Reservations Handout
Human Rights Council, General Comment No 24
European Court of Justice, Kadi
5. International Legal Personality, Territory
Cali, ch. 9 (Borgen, States and international law: the problems of self-determination, secession, and recognition)
ICJ Advisory Opinion (Summary) on Kosovo Secession, pp. 1-6 (skim), 7-8, 14-15, and Judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada , in Reference re Secession of Quebec
6. Jus ad bellum
Cali, ch. 10 (Rodley & Cali, Use of force in international law)
ICJ, Nicaragua v. U.S.
Department of Justice White Paper
7. Jus in bello
Cali, ch. 11 (Griffin & Cali, International humanitarian law)
Geneva Conventions
ICJ Advisory Opinion on Israeli Separation Wall and related Israeli Supreme Court decision
Film, The Law in These Parts
8. International Criminal Law
Cali, ch. 12 (Gaeta, International Criminal Law)
Robertson, ch. 10, The International Criminal Court
9. Human Rights, Trade and Investment Law
Cali, chs. 13, 15
10. International Law in National Courts
ICJ + Italian Constitutional Court, Germany v. Italy