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International Law and Relations (LAWS70455)
Graduate coursework level 7Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
Contact information
July
Teaching staff:
Vasuki Nesiah (Subject Coordinator)
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Overview
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This subject will place international law in the context of the practice of international relations in a world system shaped by colonialism and its afterlives. The subject will introduce students to leading accounts of international law’s role in global political life while showing, too, how the international legal order intersects with and is constituted by that history. It will use key cases adjudicated at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as a lens into law and the world system.
Indicative list of principal topics:
- The Theory and Politics of International Law
- The colonial history of international law in international relations
- Problems of international relations and law
- Theories about the role of international courts
- The Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice
Intended learning outcomes
A student who has successfully completed this subject will:
- Analyse and explain how colonial histories live in contemporary problems of international law and international relations.
- Develop the cognitive and technical skills to situate the work of International Court in existing theories about the political life of international law.
- Develop the analytic and communication skills to clearly articulate and convey complex information about key ICJ cases and their legal and political stakes to relevant specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- Generate critical and creative ideas about the potential and limits of the ICJ in international relations and the global public sphere.
Last updated: 8 November 2024