INTERNATIONAL LAW PROF. SLOMANSON
READING ASSIGNMENTS (TJSL Law: 75-minute classes) FALL 2012
(mini-review begin
-ing of each week) / Textbook-Webpage Sections/Cases/Problems (Disregard “[_-_]”)
Read textbook’s sections, cases, doc’s, and gray-box materialsonly when specified below in daily assignments.“1.A,” etc=assigned Problemsat end of each chapter.CWP = Course Web Pageat: < ° ” = quickly peruse.
1 / What’s IL? Law or Politics? / §1.1 A-D (p.3-19); Prob 1.A(p.38) [1-1]
2 / Sources of IL / §1.2:Paquete HabanaCWP;AM&SCWP; Art—Amer. Judges v. Judicial Independence (Foreign Sources); Prob1.C [4-7]
3 / Statehood;Recog-
nition; Secession; OfficialImmunity;
State (absolute) / §2.1: On Condition of Statehood;Prob 2.A; §2.3; §2.4: ICJ—Kosovo Indep.CWP; §2.6A: Case ConcerningArrest WarrantCWP;Germany v. Italy CWP [3-7]
4 / State (restrictive); Consular Relations / §2.6.B: Congo v. FG (Hong Kong)CWP;Saudi v. NelsonCWP;Prob 2.F; §2.7 A-C: Case Concerning Avena—Diplo Relations [4-8]
5 / Embassies; Diplo Immunity; Abuse / §2.7.D: Radwan; Asylum—Colum. v. Peru CWP; Vienna Convention;
USA Staff Tehran(Hostages Case);Prob 2.K(One)(Three) [4-9]
6 / Orgs; UN; Security Council / §3.1: Reparations Injuries Suffered(UN as P); Prob 3.A(1)-(2); Srebrenica UN ImmunityCWP(UN as D);§3.2; §3.3.A-B.2; Prob 3.C [4-15]
7 / Trust Council; EU; Org Immunity / §3.3 B.3(ECOSOC)-C.3b (Scandal); Prob 3.E; §3.4: ECJ UN Reso—Yassin CWP; §3.5°; §3.6: Art IV-Sec.11; Broadbent CWP;Prob 3.G [4-14]
8 / Individual; Corporation / §4.1: Soldier Jones; Individuals; Prob. 4.A.; §4.2: Nottebohm; Prob 4.B; AfghanAsylum;§4.3: Barcelona Traction [5-10]
9 / Aliens; Extraterri- torial Jurisdiction / §4.4:Prob 4.D; §5.1; §5.2 A-F; SS Lotus; Blackmer; Prob 5.B; Prob 5.C [5-11]
10 / www; Rendition / §5.2 G:Union EtudiantsYahoo v. La Ligue cases (French & US)CWP; §5.3: Alvarez-Machain; State v. Ebrahim; Diplo Assurances; Arar v. Ashcroft CWP [4-9]
11 / Range Sovereignty: land & sea / §6.1; 6.2: Legal ConsequenWallCWP; UNSC Reso. 1244; Prob. 6.B; §6.3: Port Tranquility—Mali v. Keeper CWP;IsraeliFlotilla Blockade CWP[4-8]
12 / Range Sovereignty: sea (continued), air / [§6.3 continued]Prob. 6.C; Prob 6.F; §6.4: USSR v. Powers; Prob 6.K [4-8]
13 / Treaties: types, applications / §7.1: Medellin v. Texas CWP;§7.2: Genocide Conv—Reservations; Fisheries Juris CWP; §7.3: Weinberg Treaty—Weinberger CWP [4-8]
14 / Treaties: US / Prob 7.A; Prob 7.C; Prob 7.E; Prob 7.G [4-10]
15 / Amnesty, adjudi-
cate, arbitrate / §8.1: AzanianAZAPOCWP; §8.4:Norwegian Loans; §8.5: Pros.v.Tadic CWP; Radio Machete—NahimanaCWP; §8.6: Open Door-Dublin [5-11]
16 / Force: defined, applications, legality of war / §9.1: Definition Aggression; Draft Code Crimes; What Future UN; §9.2 A-C: UN Conf Int’l Org (UNC Articles); Role of Diamonds; UNSC Reso. 687; I.L.C. Draft Articles; Military & Para.Acts Nicaragua; Armed ActCongoCWP; Brit-IraqWar—Regina (Gentle and Another)CWP; Prob. 9.B [5-9]
17 / Force: Self-Defense; Final Exam Strategy / §9.2 D: Letter Dated 7 October; Int’l Law & War Iraq (Yoo); Concept of US Nat’l Security (Moscow); US Nat’l Security Strategy & “Bush Doctine” (Gray); Report UN: Shared Responsibility; Read last year’s final exam!
18 / Force: nukes, humanitarian inter-vention,laws of war / §9.2 F: UNSC Reso.1803 (p.503); Legality Threat/Use Nukes(p.501) CWP; §9.2 G;§9.5; Prob 9.G; §9.6: US Gov’t Response to ICRC; The Geneva Convention III;Protocol I-II; US v. Calley CWP; Israeli Civilian—Public Committee Against Torture CWP; Int’l Legal Issues Mistreatment Detainees; Interp. of Geneva Conventions (Exec. Order) [4-8]
19 / Force: combatant status, detainee relief, military commissions / §9.7: Findings of the Inter-American Commission (GITMO)CWP;
Rasul CWP;BoumedieneCWP;HamdanCWP;A (FC) and Others; Senate Armed Services Inquiry CWP [5-8]
20 / Force: lawyers memos, Obama exec orders / p.547(d)+p.548 Lawyer Violations—[1]-[3] + [4 & 5 added to webpage]CWP, especially [2] Opening Statement (Nuremberg);§9.7.F Obama Exec Orders [1]-[4] (p.550); Prob. 9-K [2-10]
21 / Human Rights: UN Charter, Universal Declaration, Intl Covenants / §10.1: Boxed In (Crane); Bosnia v. SerbiaGenocideCase (p.572) CWP; Prob 10.B;§10.2: Charter UN; Int’l Covenant Civil & PoliticalRts; Report HRtsComm; Joint European Council; Death Penalty—Jeffrey Joseph and BoyceCWP; Int’l Covenant Econ-Soc-CulturalRts; IlndiweMazibuko v. Johannesburg° CWP [4-10]
22 / Human Rights: Racial Discrim Treaty
Group Rights: women / §10.3.A Conv. Elimination Racial DiscrimCWP; Georgia v. Russia CWP;Prob 10.D; §10.3.B: Conv. Elimination Discrim WomenCWP; Opuz v. TurkeyCWP; UNSC Reso. 1325; UNSC Reso. 1820CWP; Report of UN Sec-Gen Women; Accountability Int’l Law Violations Non-State Actors; Women as Architects of Peace [4-8]
23 / Women, children, religion, indigen- ous, GLBT / §10.3.C: Prob 10.G (Session #2); UNSC Reso. 1612CWP;Prisoners/ Torture—DiploAssuarancesCWP; Declaration Religious & Linguistic Minorities; UN Declaration Indigenous PeoplesCWP; Italian CrucifixCWP; (French-Dutch) Statement on Human Rights + Syria + UN Round Op-edCWP; India Gay Rts—Naz Foundation CWP [4-8]
24 / Islam: cultural relativism.Corp-orations HRts, US & HRts / §10.4 E (p.628): Islamic Legal Philosophy (p.629); Muslim Headscarf—Sahin v. TurkeyCWP; Paradox Universalism & Cultural Relativism; §10.5: Corporations & HRts; §10.6: Alien Tort Statute + Torture Victim Protection Act—Shell CorpCWP; Q & A [2-4]
25 / Environment: law / §11.1: Principles Allocation Transboundary HarmCWP; §11.2: Int’l Envir. Law (Weiss p.668); Legality Threat/Use Nukes+ Questions 674; Prob 11.B Climate Change 2007—Synthesis Report [2-9]
26 / Environment: apps & Economic Law / Prob 11.C; §12.1.A: Need to Refocus on Mandate; §12.1.B.1: MCC-Marble v.CeramicaCWP;(b) Letters Credit [3-10]
27 / Economic Law: embargo, WTO, IP,
corruption / §12.1.B.6: US 1996 US Act+Cuban Act (response)CWP; Necessity of Ending Embargo; §12.2: US v. Eurodif; TRIPS—Anheuser-Busch CWP; Prob 12.B; §12.5.A(U.S. FCPA) [4-7]
28 / Bribery; Q & A / §12.5.C-D; OECD Art. 1; Prob 12.D; Q & A [4-7]
Notes:
(1) Only the cases, problems, and textbox materials listed in the above reading assignment document are assigned for reading.Read all of the assigned sections, e.g. “§1.2” (p.26–38), unless otherwise indicated—e.g., “§1.1 A-D” (p.4–19, thus excluding §1.1.E. on p.19). The gray textbox/webpage reading is located on the Course Web Page @ < Most, but not all materials in the above assigned reading will be covered in class.All assigned cases and problems will be covered-presented (by student presenters).
(2) I will e-mail the weekly role-playing problems or cases, usually each Thursday morning, of the week before you are assigned to present. Your assigned debates/presentations will normally be limited to two minutes per side/assigned role. Let me know if you want to: (a) present on a particular topic (see course website Daily Blueprint); and/or,(b) you would like to represent certain countries, or other specific interests. I can thus consider your preferences when I make your debate/presentation assignments (no pressure).
You must let me know— by the end of the last class of each week—whether you will be unable to be in class on one or more days in the following week. You must also have a buddy who can cover for you, if you are assigned, and for any reason you are unable to appear (aka your client must always be represented). There will be a grade deduction for any mis[s]cues.
You may swap assignments with another student, up until the start of each class wherein youare assigned a role play/case/problem.
(3) There will be a 5 point midterm, based on the paper you write after meeting with your international attorney—as discussed in class.
(4) You will receive an oral presentation grade for the semester. It will be 10 points out of about 60-70total points (depending on whether the finalis two or three hours). The final will be a two or three-hour Performance Test essay, involving some course-related documents and a library of relevant documents, such as major treaties we will study. I will send you my prior exams once the course gets underway. Class #17 will be devoted to Exam Strategies. The final will be open book and open note.
(5) Because the textbook presents the substance of this course in narrative, treatise-like format, you need not buy any outside supplements. I will bring in the most popular outlines, in the event that you do not trust what I just said in the prior sentence, and want to spend more $. You can outline the course, by following the course textbook’s format. All suggestions re textbook content are welcome. Student insights have been an important feature of the success of this book, which is now used in 21 countries.
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